Contact us today via our contact form or by calling 01832 864020
© St Joseph’s Asset Management Ltd, 2024 Company Number 14941190
DUE DILIGENCE
St Joseph’s is not a solicitors firm. It is a ‘bespoke’ independent Legal Consultancy,
which provides specific types of services to businesses and individuals.
You can meet our experts here
This means that there are certain regulatory limitations on what St Joseph’s and its
Consultants can actually do. For example, we cannot provide public facing legal
advice in relation to reserved legal activities as specified in section 12 of the Legal
Services Act, which includes the exercise of a right of audience, the conduct of
litigation, reserved instrument activities, probate activities, notarial activities and
the administration of oaths.
All these terms are defined in detail in Schedule 2 to the Act. For more information
about this please visit the Solicitors Regulation Authority website for further
details.
However, we can provide “in-house” legal services to companies which include the
exercise of a right of audience, the conduct of litigation, reserved instrument
activities, probate activities, notarial activities and the administration of oaths,
where one of our Consultants is appointed as a legal officer or legal director.
We can also provide “agency” based legal services to individuals and companies
which include the exercise of a right of audience, the conduct of litigation,
reserved instrument activities, probate-activities, notarial-activities and the
administration of oaths, where St Joseph’s enters into an “agency” agreement with
a law firm in relation to a particular project or client. In such instances, St Joseph’s
and its Consultants operate under the regulatory umbrella of the firm whom we
enter into such agreements with.
Similarly, we cannot provide any Claims Management Services in our own right as
we do not hold a licence and are not regulated by the Ministry of Justice. The
Conduct of Authorised Persons Rules 2007 set out the specific requirements
relating to Claims Management.
However, we can provide “agency” based claims management services. The
Ministry of Justice Guidance relating to who needs to be authorised to conduct
Claims Management under the Compensation Act 2006 provides certain
exemptions from the acquirement to register and obtain a licence to become
authorised. The particular exemptions which relate to St Joseph’s include:
(a) Legal consultants / practitioners
An exemption exists in relation to legal practitioners acting in the normal
course of practice in a way permitted by professional rules to which the legal
practitioner is subject. In relation to St Joseph’s, this would cover “agency”
work for a law firm;
(b) “exempt introducer” status
The requirements are set out in detail in the Compensation (Exemptions)
Order 2007. Essentially, our primary business is not claims management, but
as a consequence of some of the projects we become involved in there is an
element of claims management. Given the size of such projects “exempt
introducer” status would apply in the first instance. Where such projects
exceed the threshold for this exemption, we would then be exempted by
virtue of (c) below;
(c) Introducers acting as agents for a business
Where introducers are in effect agents of a licensed claims management
business, then, if there is a proper agency contract, such agents are covered
by the claims management business’s authorization. We always enter into
proper agency contracts to ensure compliance with the requirements for
exemption.
In the event that St Joseph’s engages in any agency based legal services
or claims management services, we will comply with the regulatory
requirements both in respect of transparency with the partner business
and also in respect of transparency with the individual client(s).
Solicitors Regulation Authority
Because we are not a law firm or Claims Management Company we are not
regulated directly by the Solicitors Regulation Authority or Ministry of Justice. We
are regulated indirectly where we act as an agent, as described below. However, we
have working and practising Solicitors and Barristers who work directly with St
Joseph’s and they are regulated by the SRA in the UK in their own right, or the
equivalent body abroad.
In the unlikely event that a client, individual or partner brings a complaint against
St Joseph’s, it will be deemed to be a complaint against the person involved in the
specific case. As such if the complaint is about a Solicitor it should be put to the
SRA, a Barrister, should be put to the Bar Counsel.
St Joseph’s has sought to import the principles of the Best Practice Code into this
business to ensure clients, individuals or partners receive high standards and have
a process for redress if they are unhappy with the final decision of any complaint.
The Data Protection Act
St Joseph’s doesn’t normally collect or hold information which would be covered
by the Data Protection Act.
Contact us today via our contact form or by calling 01832 864020
© St Joseph’s Asset Management Ltd, 2024 Company Number 14941190
DUE DILIGENCE
St Joseph’s is not a solicitors firm. It is a ‘bespoke’ independent Legal
Consultancy, which provides specific types of services to businesses
and individuals.
You can meet our experts here
This means that there are certain regulatory limitations on what St
Joseph’s and its Consultants can actually do. For example, we cannot
provide public facing legal advice in relation to reserved legal
activities as specified in section 12 of the Legal Services Act, which
includes the exercise of a right of audience, the conduct of litigation,
reserved instrument activities, probate activities, notarial activities
and the administration of oaths.
All these terms are defined in detail in Schedule 2 to the Act. For
more information about this please visit the Solicitors Regulation
Authority website for further details.
However, we can provide “in-house” legal services to companies
which include the exercise of a right of audience, the conduct of
litigation, reserved instrument activities, probate activities, notarial
activities and the administration of oaths, where one of our
Consultants is appointed as a legal officer or legal director.
We can also provide “agency” based legal services to individuals and
companies which include the exercise of a right of audience, the
conduct of litigation, reserved instrument activities, probate-
activities, notarial-activities and the administration of oaths, where
St Joseph’s enters into an “agency” agreement with a law firm in
relation to a particular project or client. In such instances, St Joseph’s
and its Consultants operate under the regulatory umbrella of the
firm whom we enter into such agreements with.
Similarly, we cannot provide any Claims Management Services in our
own right as we do not hold a licence and are not regulated by the
Ministry of Justice. The Conduct of Authorised Persons Rules 2007
set out the specific requirements relating to Claims Management.
However, we can provide “agency” based claims management
services. The Ministry of Justice Guidance relating to who needs to
be authorised to conduct Claims Management under the
Compensation Act 2006 provides certain exemptions from the
acquirement to register and obtain a licence to become authorised.
The particular exemptions which relate to St Joseph’s include:
(a) Legal consultants / practitioners
An exemption exists in relation to legal practitioners acting in
the normal course of practice in a way permitted by
professional rules to which the legal practitioner is subject. In
relation to St Joseph’s, this would cover “agency” work for a
law firm;
(b) “exempt introducer” status
The requirements are set out in detail in the Compensation
(Exemptions) Order 2007. Essentially, our primary business is
not claims management, but as a consequence of some of the
projects we become involved in there is an element of claims
management. Given the size of such projects “exempt
introducer” status would apply in the first instance. Where
such projects exceed the threshold for this exemption, we
would then be exempted by virtue of (c) below;
(c) Introducers acting as agents for a business
Where introducers are in effect agents of a licensed claims
management business, then, if there is a proper agency
contract, such agents are covered by the claims management
business’s authorization. We always enter into proper agency
contracts to ensure compliance with the requirements for
exemption.
In the event that St Joseph’s engages in any agency based
legal services or claims management services, we will
comply with the regulatory requirements both in respect
of transparency with the partner business and also in
respect of transparency with the individual client(s).
Solicitors Regulation Authority
Because we are not a law firm or Claims Management Company we
are not regulated directly by the Solicitors Regulation Authority or
Ministry of Justice. We are regulated indirectly where we act as an
agent, as described below. However, we have working and practising
Solicitors and Barristers who work directly with St Joseph’s and they
are regulated by the SRA in the UK in their own right, or the
equivalent body abroad.
In the unlikely event that a client, individual or partner brings a
complaint against St Joseph’s, it will be deemed to be a complaint
against the person involved in the specific case. As such if the
complaint is about a Solicitor it should be put to the SRA, a Barrister,
should be put to the Bar Counsel.
St Joseph’s has sought to import the principles of the Best Practice
Code into this business to ensure clients, individuals or partners
receive high standards and have a process for redress if they are
unhappy with the final decision of any complaint.
The Data Protection Act
St Joseph’s doesn’t normally collect or hold information which would
be covered by the Data Protection Act.