AKL Solicitors Ltd ("we", "us") is the controller of the personal data we hold about you. We are registered with the Information Commissioner’s Office under registration number ZA435148.
Data we collect
- Identity and contact details (name, address, phone, email, date of birth)
- Identity documents and information needed for anti-money-laundering checks
- Information about your legal matter, which may include special category data such as health, ethnicity or religion (especially in immigration and family matters)
- Financial information, bank details and source-of-funds evidence
- Information you send through our website enquiry form
Why we use your data
- To provide legal services to you (performance of a contract)
- To comply with our legal and regulatory obligations, including anti-money-laundering law and SRA rules (legal obligation)
- To respond to enquiries and run our business (legitimate interests)
- Special category data: where necessary to establish, exercise or defend legal claims, or with your explicit consent
Who we share it with
We share data only where necessary, for example with the Home Office, HM Land Registry, HMRC, courts and tribunals, barristers and experts, the other side’s solicitors, banks and lenders, our IT and identity-check providers, our insurers and auditors, and our regulators. We do not sell your data.
How long we keep it
We normally keep client files for at least 6 years, and longer for property and wills, after the matter ends, and anti-money-laundering records for at least 5 years after the business relationship ends.
Your rights
You have the right to access your data, to have it corrected or erased, to restrict or object to processing, to data portability, and to withdraw consent where we rely on it. Contact our data protection lead, Sherali Lakhani, at reception@aklsolicitors.co.uk or at our registered office. You can also complain to the Information Commissioner’s Office at ico.org.uk or on 0303 123 1113.
Last updated: 7 November 2026.