Terms & Conditions

Content:

  • Booking
  • Invoicing and Payment
  • Cancellation and Amends
  • Course Attendance and Certification
  • Special Offers
  • Additional Terms
  • Live Online
  • Technology
  • Intellectual property
  • Data Protection
  • Disclaimers and limitation of liability

 Last revised September 2022.

All bookings made via this website for the provision of training with BARBRI Global are bound by these terms and conditions. Please ensure that you have read and understood the terms of our booking agreement before continuing. If you have any queries or would like to speak with a member of our team regarding this content, please call us on 029 2045 1000.

We are part of BARBRI Global Limited, a private company limited by shares, registered in the United Kingdom (Company Number 13733203) and a wholly-owned subsidiary of BARBRI, Inc. (a Delaware USA corporation).

You can contact us by telephoning our customer service team on 029 2045 1000 or by writing to us at infoBARBRI Global@barbri.com or BARBRI Global, Upper Ground Floor, 7-8 Park Place, Cardiff, CF10 3DP.

For current course fees and dates, please refer to our website.

If you are booking the course for yourself, you are responsible for ensuring that the course selected is suitable for your level of experience and desired outcomes. BARBRI Global will not assume responsibility for your choice. Nor does it make any commitment to you that any particular outcome will be obtained from completion of the course and/or use of the study materials.

If a course registration/booking form is completed by an individual other than the named student, it is the responsibility of the person authorising the booking to ensure the course is suitable for the student.
Receipt of your booking form does not guarantee a place on your chosen course. A place will only be secured, once payment terms have been fulfilled. Please see the relevant section below regarding payment terms.

Important note: BARBRI Global will deem the completion by you of a booking form/request, or a request by telephone, email or otherwise, as an intention on your part to form a legally binding agreement. Once we have acted upon your request by confirming your booking in writing, a legally binding agreement shall come into force between us.
We reserve the right to refuse attendance on a course if you have behaved unacceptably, including, but not limited to, any physical or verbal abuse towards staff.

Payment Terms

All amounts quoted exclude VAT (where applicable), except where stated otherwise.

Regardless of your method of booking, the fee for your chosen course/assessment can be found on the relevant page of our website and/or booking form and are quoted in pounds sterling. Note: In house course fees will be the subject of agreement on a case-by-case basis.

In the unlikely event that due to a technical error, the amount of the course fee displayed on the website or on the enrolment form is incorrect, BARBRI Global will notify you as soon as reasonably possible.

If you are paying the course fees yourself:

Payment is due immediately upon booking by credit/debit card or BACS.

If your employer has agreed to be invoiced for the course fee:

If your firm has agreed to pay for your training, please note an invoice will be issued once your booking has been processed. By submitting your booking form, you are agreeing that your firm has given you authorisation to book.
Full payment of the course/assessment fee, will be due from your employer within 28 days from the date of the invoice. In the case of bookings made fewer than 28 days before the course/assessment start date, payment is due immediately upon booking.

Without prejudice to BARBRI Global’s rights and remedies under these terms and conditions, if any sum payable by the employer is not paid on or before the due date BARBRI Global reserves the right to deny or suspend provision to you of the booked course and, if relevant, to withhold results and certificates.

Except in the case of frustration of the contract by BARBRI Global, the employer is and will remain fully liable for the payment of amounts due in all circumstances.

If a purchase order number is to be quoted on an invoice, it must be supplied at the time of the original booking as we are unable to amend an invoice once it has been raised. We reserve the right to charge a fee of £25+ VAT if the invoice needs to be reissued.

BARBRI Global reserves the right to charge interest at 4% per annum on overdue amounts.

Refunds made by BARBRI Global in accordance with our terms and conditions will be paid to the original payer.
All deposits received are for the sole purpose of reserving a course place.

Funds received but not utilised or refunded in accordance with our terms and conditions will be forfeited to BARBRI Global.

 

If all elements of your course are not utilised within the standard two-year training contract, (two years from the original booking date) then BARBRI Global reserve the right to consider the remaining elements forfeited, unless the student has informed BARBRI Global of an extension granted by the SRA. If the student has gained an extension with the SRA a further six months will be added to this standard two-year period.

Distance selling regulations entitle students to a 14-day ‘cooling-off’ period. This means that any student securing a booking by telephone, internet or otherwise not in person will have 14 days in which to cancel their booking. If a student exercises his or her right to cancel during this 14-day period a full refund of all amounts already paid by the student or their employer will be refunded to the relevant party’s original payment method, after deduction of the cost of any services already performed by BARBRI Global.

BARBRI Global reserves the right to vary or cancel any course, and/or amend our fees and will accept no liability if this happens a minimum of two weeks before the course start date. In the event of there being insufficient numbers booked on a course, BARBRI Global reserves the right to cancel or postpone the course and will notify you of this in advance. In the event we cancel, you can transfer to another course free of charge or receive a full refund of the course fee paid but BARBRI Global will not be liable for other expenses you may have occurred.

Unless you are cancelling within the 14-day cooling off period mentioned above, once BARBRI Global has accepted your booking you will remain liable for the full fees. In most cases, however, students may be substituted onto courses free of charge provided that we are notified of the substitution prior to the start of the course. Substitution onto assessments may not be possible and requests will be considered on a case-by-case basis.

Subject to the additional terms below, requests to transfer received by us at least 28 days prior to the course start date will be granted free of charge.

With the exception of Higher Rights of Audience training and assessment courses, Trainee Litigation Course and CILEx Advocacy Qualification Scheme, (please refer to the relevant titled sections below) you may transfer, subject to availability, to alternative dates free of charge as long as we receive your transfer request at least 28 days prior to the course start date. Transfers requested within 28 days of the course start date will also be subject to availability and will attract a transfer fee of £50 plus vat for a full-day session transferred and £25 plus VAT for a half-day session (see below for separate charges applicable to courses where roles are allocated). Transferring between face-to-face to online versions of a course or assessment will incur a transfer fee as indicated above. This transfer fee will only be waived if the request is supported by relevant written medical evidence received within 7 days of the course start date. Transfers will not be actioned until the transfer fee has been paid in full.

In the case of courses/assessments involving students being allocated a role, and granted advanced access to role-specific resources, a transfer fee of £100 plus vat per day will apply to transfer requests received within 28 days of the start of the course. Details of courses where roles are allocated are flagged on our website.

All requests from students to cancel and/or transfer their course booking must be received in writing or using BARBRI Global’s standard enquiry form which can be accessed via our website www.altior.co.uk.

In the case of non-attendance by a student on any day/live online session of a course/assessment, the fee for that day will be forfeited and not be refunded. The fee for any day/session re-booked will be calculated on a stand-alone (non-package) basis and must be paid before the new date/s can be booked. In the case of non-attendance due to medical or compassionate grounds which have been substantiated by relevant written evidence, transfers may be granted, subject to availability, free of charge.

BARBRI Global will send all correspondence primarily via email to the email address provided on the booking form. If alternative details are received after the booking form has been submitted, they will supersede the original details and all future correspondence will be sent to the new address.

Certificates will be sent in pdf format by email and only posted if specifically requested to the nominated postal address. Mislaid certificates can be replaced for a fee of £25 plus vat.

It is the responsibility of the individual attending the course/assessment to ensure they have received joining instructions prior to the date of the course/assessment and to contact BARBRI Global to arrange for them to be reissued in the event of non-arrival within 7 days from the start date of the course/assessment.

It may be necessary, for reasons beyond the control of BARBRI Global, to change the content, timing, date or venue of the course or trainer. In such circumstances, students will be informed via email. It is the responsibility of the student to check for any such amendments prior to the course.

No results or certificate(s) will be issued whilst there is an overdue balance due to BARBRI Global on a firm’s account (including interest on overdue balances and statutory compensation).

Live Online attendance will be monitored via an engagement monitoring facility. If you appear not to be engaging with the session, we reserve the right to ask you to repeat the session if the course has a compulsory hours requirement. That repeat session will be charged at full fees.

  1. No BARBRI Global special offer, promotion or discount can be used in conjunction with any other BARBRI Global special offer, promotion or discount.
  2. A special offer, promotion or discount will not be applied retrospectively to any course/assessment booking.
  3. Where a special offer, promotion or discount relates to a specific course/assessment/date/venue, the offer cannot be applied to any different course/assessment/date/venue. Transfers to courses/assessments/dates/venues not covered by the offer will incur a fee representing the difference between the full published price of the course/assessment and the discounted price as well as any transfer fees which may be applicable.
  4. Where a special offer relates to multiple course bookings, all courses must be booked at the same time.
  5. Discounts offered, from time to time, to alumni will only be honoured if the student can prove they have previously studied with BARBRI Global and we hold their record on our system. As with all discounts, alumni discounts must be claimed by the student at the point of booking and cannot be applied retrospectively.

The following transfer fees will apply to BARBRI Global’s Higher Rights of Audience training and assessment course, Trainee Litigation Course (TLP) and CILEx Advocacy Skills Course (training and assessment)

  1. Transfer requests received 60 days or more prior to the first day of the course - no transfer fee will be payable
  2. Transfer requests received fewer than 60 days prior to the first day of the course - a transfer fee equivalent to 50% of the fee paid/due for the booked course will be payable
  3. Transfer requests received fewer than 28 days prior to the first day of the course - 100% of the fee paid/due for the booked course will be forfeited/remain payable. The new course dates to be booked will attract the full fee as published at the time.

System Requirements

It is your responsibility to check that the computer or any other device (mobile phones and tablets without keyboards will not be allowed) you plan to use to access your MyLearning account and/or live online course is compatible with the minimum specification requirement for operating MyLearning and/or using our websites and participating in any live online sessions. No refund shall be given if you fail to check compatibility beyond the standard 14-day cooling-off period.

Zoom

Our Live Online courses will be delivered using Zoom. Please ensure that you have downloaded the latest version of this in advance of your session by going to the Zoom website directly or the link provided on MyLearning. A link is also be provided for you to test your system.

Google Chrome and Honorlock

Many of our online written assessments use a proctoring software called Honorlock, which is built into MyLearning using a Google Chrome extension. You will need to ensure you have latest version of Google Chrome to access MyLearning (as other browsers are incompatible) and will be prompted to install the extension when you try to access the assessment or test link. You will also need to ensure that you are using the latest operating system (for example, Windows 10/11 or macOS 10.14) as older versions are no longer supported. To find the latest minimum system requirements and run a compatibility test, please go to: honorlock.com/support

Pop-up blockers and firewalls
Your web browser may have active pop-up blockers to suppress unwanted advertising. Similarly, you may be behind a content- blocking device such as a firewall. It may be necessary to reconfigure or disable these. If you are accessing the learning platform from work or in a public place, you may have to contact the system administrator to do this. It is your responsibility to ensure that barbri.com is added to your safe domain list.

 

Disruption of Online Access/Technical Support
BARBRI Global is not responsible for delays outside our control. If a provision of a course is delayed by an event or technical issue outside our control, we then will contact you as soon as possible to let you know and we will take steps to minimise the effect of the delay. Provided we do this, we will not be liable for delays caused by the event, but if there is a risk of substantial delay you may contact us to end the contract and receive a refund or request a free transfer for the relevant session or part of the course you have not received.

BARBRI Global will not be responsible to you for any delay or disruptions to your access to material as a result of any of the following:

  1. Operation of the internet and World Wide Web (including, but not limited to, the effect of viruses)
    b. Firewall restrictions which may have been placed on your network or the computer you are using to gain access to online study; or
    c. The failure of telecommunications links or equipment or browser issues.

BARBRI Global accepts only the following obligations detailed below to provide technical and content support in connection with applicable courses.

If a fault is reported to BARBRI Global reasonable endeavours will be used to provide a solution but we do not guarantee that the support provided will resolve your technical problems. If technical advice is provided by BARBRI Global then BARBRI Global does not accept any responsibility for any problems which arise if you do not ensure that such advice is followed strictly. Technical support advice is provided at your own risk.

BARBRI Global is not obliged to provide any technical support in relation to use of any free demonstrations available on BARBRI Global’s website but may elect to offer such support in its sole discretion.

Periods of downtime may be required in respect of BARBRI Global’s information technology infrastructure (for example, the website or any sites used to host online materials). Technical support may not be available at such time. BARBRI Global will not have any liability with respect to any such periods of unavailability.

BARBRI Global cannot guarantee uninterrupted availability of online learning resources. In particular, the right is reserved to suspend access to the website or MyLearning or any other online resources for the purpose of scheduled or emergency maintenance, repairs and upgrades or to improve performance and functionality.

BARBRI Global is not responsible for any problems or technical malfunction of any telephone network or lines, computer online systems, servers or providers, computer equipment or software, failure of any email or online application to be received on account of technical problems or traffic congestion on the internet, telephone lines or at any website, or any combination of these, including any injury or damage to a student’s or other customer’s or any other person’s computer or mobile telephone related to or resulting from participation or downloading any materials.

You confirm that BARBRI Global will not be held responsible for any technical problems encountered following the purchase of a course granting you access to MyLearning, Live Online and/or our websites.

All intellectual property rights (including, but not limited to, copyright) in any course/assessment materials or other learning materials made available in connection with a course/assessment belong to BARBRI Global.

The student or client is granted only a non-transferrable, non-exclusive license to use such course/assessment/supporting materials as may be provided by BARBRI Global in a personal capacity and in connection only with study by that person or client in relation to the specific course in respect of which the materials were provided and the license will terminate upon termination of study on such course.

Students and other clients confirm they will only use such materials provided by BARBRI Global for their own developmental purposes and will not, without BARBRI Global’s prior written consent, copy, make available, retransmit, reproduce, sell, license, distribute, publish, broadcast or otherwise circulate such materials other than in connection with the use permitted pursuant to this paragraph by such persons (but not any third parties). Students and clients confirm that they will indemnify in respect of any infringement of any such intellectual property rights arising as a result of such student or client’s use in breach of the foregoing requirements.

Usernames and passwords are for personal use only and should not be passed to anyone else. Students are required to protect their log-in information at all times as content stored on MyLearning is protected by the same IP rights as set out above.

MyLearning and Live Online resources will be available (if applicable to your course) on your account for a limited period only.
Documents and resources on MyLearning are for your personal use only and should not be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system or transmitted, in any form or by any other means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording or otherwise, without the prior written permission of BARBRI Global or the applicable other BARBRI group company.

Additionally, please note that all our Live Online Sessions are recorded and are monitored for quality purposes internally. Only sessions including assessments are shared, and only with students enrolled on the same sessions. From time to time, we may decide to share these recordings externally as part of Business Development and Marketing.

Please refer to our privacy policy contained on this website for details of how we use the information which BARBRI Global collects from you.

  1. Liability of BARBRI Global for losses arising from their negligence (except in the case of liability for fraud, death or personal injury), breach of contract or otherwise will be limited to the full amounts paid by the relevant student for the particular course and/or study materials.
  2. While BARBRI Global endeavours to ensure that the information on the BARBRI Global website is correct, we do not warrant the accuracy and completeness of the material on the site or in any corporate brochures or prospectuses. We may make changes to the material on the site or to the products and prices described in it at any time without notice, although we will provide notice of substantive changes to the BARBRI Global Privacy Policy. The material on the site is provided ‘as is,’ without any conditions, warranties, or other terms of any kind.
  3. Complaints procedure - Please refer to our Complaints Policy & Procedure which can be found on our website.
You can download a copy of these terms and conditions below.
Please find our BARBRI student complaints policy here.