Please read the information below for details of how our team will use your personal data and who we will or may share it with. This information should be read together with that provided in the Privacy Notice and details about how and why this firm processes your personal data, and who Taylor Emmet will share your data with.

How our department uses your personal data Who we will/may share your personal data with
We use your personal data primarily to provide the legal services that you have asked us to deliver, to progress your matter generally and for related purposes as detailed below (lawful bases for processing: contractual obligation and legitimate interests): During the course of our relationship with you we may/will share your personal data with some of the organisations listed below

Wherever possible (for example, when sharing data for auditing or quality control purposes) your personal data will be anonymised:

  • The relevant Court (disputed cases)
  • The other party’s solicitor
  • The other party in person
  • Barristers
  • Interpreters
  • CAFCASS (matters involving children)
  • Social Services
  • Financial advisors (matrimonial finance matters)
  • Mortgage advisors (matrimonial finance matters)
  • Mediation services
  • Guardians Experts (such as psychiatrists and psychologists
  • Actuaries, accountants and IFAs (matrimonial finance matters)
  • Pension providers (matrimonial finance matters)
  • Local Authorities (matters involving children)
  • Schools (matters involving children)
  • CAMHS (Child & Adolescent Mental Health Service)
  • MAST (Multi Agency Screening Team) Police (as appropriate)
  • Health professionals
  • Benefits Agency
  • Relatives (for witness statements, for example, as appropriate)
  • Mother and baby units
  • Foster carers
  • Other solicitors representing or who represented you in different proceedings
  • Probation Officers (care proceedings)
  • Drugs agencies (care and other proceedings involving children)
  • DNA testing (to establish parentage)
  • Alcohol and drug testing (care and other proceedings involving children)
  • Home Office
  • Costs draftsman
  • Independent social workers
  • Probation officers
  • Counsellors
  • Process servers and investigators to trace (as required to serve Court papers)
  • Valuers (matrimonial finances)
To obtain funding for the legal services to be provided and supply the funding party with updates regarding the case as required, including details of the costs incurred on your behalf (lawful basis for processing: contractual and legitimate interests)

Please note that if this information is not provided the funder is likely to withdraw funding

The information shared will/may include sensitive personal data (such as information about your health/personal circumstances shared with other parties involved in your case). The condition for processing this special category data is that it is necessary to establish or exercise your legal claim/position/defence.

  • Legal Aid Agency (publically funded matters)
  • Novitas (legal costs funding in private matters) and such other funding providers as may be used from time to time