Disclaimer

This Disclaimer governs the basis on which Standing Lawyers publishes this website and the basis on which you may read it. It should be read with our Terms of Use, our Privacy Policy and our Cookie Policy, each of which is published on this website. If you do not accept it, please do not use this website.

1. The publisher, and the regulatory basis for this website

1.1 This website is published by Standing Lawyers, a sole proprietorship of an advocate enrolled with a State Bar Council of India and governed by the Advocates Act, 1961 and the rules made under it, including the Bar Council of India's Standards of Professional Conduct and Etiquette.

1.2 Rule 36 of Chapter II of Part VI of the Bar Council of India Rules prohibits an advocate from soliciting work or advertising, whether directly or indirectly, whether by circulars, advertisements, touts, personal communications, interviews not warranted by personal relations, or by furnishing or inspiring newspaper comments or producing photographs to be published in connection with cases in which the advocate has been engaged or concerned.

1.3 A proviso inserted in 2008 permits an advocate to furnish website information as prescribed in the Schedule to that proviso, under intimation to the Bar Council of India. The permitted categories are the advocate's name, address, contact details, professional and academic qualifications, and areas of practice, and the proviso attaches the express condition that the information so furnished is true.

1.4 The Bar Council of India restated and enforced that position by its directions of 17 March 2025, addressed to advertising and promotional activity by advocates on digital and social media platforms. Indian courts have also held that listing an advocate on a commercial aggregator or directory platform amounts to indirect solicitation contrary to Rule 36.

1.5 This website exists within those limits. It is an informational website and it is not an advertisement, a solicitation, an inducement or an invitation of any kind to seek professional engagement. The information published on it is true and correct to the best of our knowledge and belief, which is the condition the 2008 proviso attaches.

1.6 Nothing on this website is to be construed as a statement that the firm or any advocate associated with it holds any accreditation, ranking, specialisation or recognition that is not expressly and truthfully stated. We publish no client testimonial, no client name, no ranking and no comparative claim about the quality of our work.

2. The acknowledgement recorded when you entered

2.1 Access to this website is preceded by a notice which you were asked to acknowledge. Your acknowledgement is recorded in your own browser's local storage on your own device. It is not transmitted to us, it is not stored on our servers, and it is not used to identify you.

2.2 By proceeding into this website you confirmed each of the following, and you confirm them again on each occasion you use it:

• that there has been no advertisement, personal communication, solicitation, invitation or inducement of any kind whatsoever from us, or from any person acting on our behalf, to solicit work through this website;
• that you are accessing this website of your own accord and of your own volition, and that you wish to know more about Standing Lawyers for your own information and use;
• that any information you read on, or material you download from, this website is at your own volition, is at your own risk, and is made available to you only on your specific request;
• that no information on this website is, or is intended to be, legal advice or an opinion of any kind, and that we accept no liability for any action you take, or decline to take, in reliance on it;
• that no lawyer-client relationship is created by your reading this website, by your downloading material from it, or by your writing to us through it;
• that you will obtain independent legal advice on any matter on which you require legal assistance; and
• that the contents of this website are the intellectual property of Standing Lawyers.

2.3 The acknowledgement is versioned. Where the substance of what is acknowledged changes, the stored acknowledgement is superseded and you will be asked afresh.

3. Nothing on this website is legal advice

3.1 Everything published on this website, including every service description, note, article, answer to a frequently asked question and downloadable document, is general information. It is not legal advice, it is not an opinion, and it is not a substitute for advice given on the facts of a particular matter.

3.2 Law changes, and the application of law depends entirely on facts. Material on this website may have been overtaken by amendment, by subordinate legislation, by judicial decision or by a change in regulatory practice after the date it was published. We are under no obligation to update it and we do not undertake to do so.

3.3 You should not act, and you should not refrain from acting, on the basis of anything on this website without obtaining advice on your own circumstances from a qualified legal practitioner. Any use you make of this website, and any reliance you place on it, is entirely at your own risk.

4. No lawyer-client relationship

4.1 Reading this website, downloading material from it, subscribing to anything on it, or sending us a message through it does not make you a client of Standing Lawyers and does not create a lawyer-client relationship.

4.2 A lawyer-client relationship arises only when we have completed our conflict of interest checks, agreed the scope of the work in writing, and confirmed the engagement in an engagement letter that you have accepted. Our Terms of Engagement describe that process.

4.3 Until an engagement is confirmed in writing, no deadline, limitation period, filing date or other time limit in any matter of yours is being monitored, protected or managed by us, however much we may have discussed it.

5. Confidential information sent before an engagement exists

5.1 Please do not send us confidential, privileged or sensitive information through this website, or by email, before an engagement has been confirmed in writing.

5.2 Information sent to us before an engagement exists may not attract the protection you would expect. In particular, we may already be acting for another party with an interest adverse to yours, in which case we may be unable to act for you and unable to treat what you have sent as material we can act upon.

5.3 Send us a short message describing the nature of the matter only, and we will confirm whether we are able to act and propose a secure route for the detail.

6. No guarantee, no prediction, no assurance of outcome

6.1 Nothing on this website is, or may be read as, a promise, prediction, warranty or assurance about the outcome of any matter, the timescale of any process, or the cost of any work.

6.2 No advocate may lawfully guarantee a result, and we do not. Any description of previous work is a description of what was done and not an indication of what will be achieved in another matter, whose facts, forum, opposing party and applicable law will differ.

6.3 This bears saying twice in recovery work, because the industry it sits in does not always say it once. We do not promise that an asset will be found, that a claim will be allowed, that an institution will act, or that anything will be recovered at all. Nor can we promise when. The periods that govern these matters belong to companies, registrars, funds, insurers, authorities and courts, and none of them is ours to compress.

7. Free routes exist, and we will tell you about them

7.1 Several of the searches and claims described on this website can be made by the person entitled, directly, at no cost. The Reserve Bank of India operates a public facility for searching unclaimed deposits. The Insurance Regulatory and Development Authority of India publishes a facility for checking unclaimed amounts with insurers. The mutual fund registrars operate a facility for tracing inactive and unclaimed folios. Form IEPF-5 carries no fee to the claimant. A complaint to an insurance ombudsman is free to the complainant.

7.2 We publish this because a reader is entitled to know it before they instruct anybody, and we apply it in practice: where the free route is sufficient for your matter, we say so and explain how to use it, whether or not you then instruct us.

7.3 Two warnings follow from the same place. The Reserve Bank of India does not permit agents or third parties to retrieve unclaimed deposits for customers on a payment basis. And no legitimate adviser, this firm included, will ever ask you for an internet banking password, a card number, a card verification value or a one time password. If anyone asks you for those in connection with recovering an asset, it is not a professional service.

8. Jurisdictional limits

8.1 This website addresses the law of India. It is not directed at any person in any jurisdiction where its publication or availability would be contrary to local law or regulation, and it should not be treated as an offer to provide legal services in any such jurisdiction.

8.2 We do not advise on the laws of any jurisdiction other than India. Where a matter requires advice on foreign law, we will say so and, with your instructions, work alongside qualified practitioners in the relevant jurisdiction.

9. No obligation to accept instructions

9.1 Nothing on this website creates, or is intended to create, any obligation on us to accept instructions from you or to act for you in any matter.

9.2 We decline matters where a conflict of interest exists or is likely to arise, where the client due diligence described in our Anti-Money Laundering and Client Due Diligence Policy is not satisfied, where we are not satisfied that the person instructing us is entitled to the asset claimed, where the heirs to an estate are in dispute about entitlement, where we lack the capacity or the relevant expertise, and where the work is not worth what pursuing it would cost you.

10. Third party links and third party material

10.1 Where this website links to a website operated by another person, it does so for convenience only. We do not control those websites, we do not endorse them by linking to them, and we are not responsible for their content, their availability, their security or their handling of your personal data.

10.2 Any statute, rule, judgment or official publication referred to on this website should be read in its authoritative published form. Where our description of it differs from the source, the source governs.

11. Intellectual property

11.1 The text, structure, design, graphics, logo and other material on this website are the intellectual property of Standing Lawyers or are used with the permission of the owner. The name Standing Lawyers and the column device are the subject of trade mark applications filed at the Trade Marks Registry in Class 45.

11.2 You may read this website, and print or save individual pages, for your own reference or for the internal purposes of your organisation. Any other use, including reproduction, republication, redistribution, adaptation or use for training any automated system, requires our prior written permission.

12. Limitation of liability

12.1 To the fullest extent permitted by law, Standing Lawyers, and any advocate, consultant or other person associated with it, is not liable for any loss or damage of any kind, whether direct, indirect, incidental, consequential, special or punitive, and whether in contract, tort, statute or otherwise, arising out of or in connection with your access to, use of, or inability to use this website, or your reliance on anything published on it.

12.2 We do not warrant that this website will be available without interruption, that it will be free from error, or that it or the server that makes it available are free from malicious code. You are responsible for your own arrangements for protecting your systems.

12.3 Nothing in this Disclaimer excludes or limits any liability that cannot lawfully be excluded or limited, and nothing in it excludes or limits any liability for fraud or fraudulent misrepresentation.

13. Governing law and jurisdiction

13.1 This Disclaimer, and any dispute or claim arising out of or in connection with it or with your use of this website, is governed by and construed in accordance with the laws of India.

13.2 The courts at Jaipur, Rajasthan have exclusive jurisdiction, subject to any provision of law which confers jurisdiction elsewhere and which the parties cannot by agreement displace.

Effect, review and contact

A This Disclaimer takes effect on 7 August 2026 and replaces any earlier version of it published on this website. The version published here is the operative version at any given time.

B We review this Disclaimer at least once a year, and additionally whenever the law, our systems or our practice changes in a way that affects it. Where a change is material we will say so on this page and, where the change concerns personal data and we hold a means of reaching you, we will tell you directly.

C Questions about this Disclaimer, and any request or complaint arising from it, should be sent to work@standinglawyers.com, marked for the attention of the Grievance Officer where it is a complaint. We can also be reached on +91 63766 28978.