Regulatory Notice

ILA Hub — a trading name of Daniel McAfee SRA-Regulated Freelance Solicitor (SRA No: 8015561) Email: daniel@dmcafeesolicitor.com Last updated: 13 May 2026

The information in this notice is designed to give our clients clear information about who will be carrying out work on their behalf, how that advice is regulated, how to make a complaint, and the protections available to them.

1. The advisor and the trading name

1.1 The legal advice provided through ILA Hub is delivered personally by Daniel McAfee, a solicitor of the Senior Courts of England and Wales, authorised and regulated by the Solicitors Regulation Authority (SRA No: 8015561). 1.2 ILA Hub is a trading name of Daniel McAfee. The trading name itself is not separately authorised or regulated. The regulated person is Daniel McAfee in his individual professional capacity as a solicitor. The business operates as a sole trader in England and Wales. 1.3 Daniel practises as a freelance solicitor within the SRA’s freelance solicitor framework and provides only non-reserved legal services through ILA Hub.

2. Reserved and non-reserved legal activities

2.1 Section 13(1) of the Legal Services Act 2007 (“the Act”) makes it clear that whether a person is entitled to carry on a reserved legal activity is determined solely by reference to the Act. 2.2 Section 15 of the Act determines whether a firm needs to be authorised by the SRA or another approved legal services regulator. It confirms that only firms carrying out reserved legal services need to be authorised. 2.3 The reserved legal activities, set out in section 12 and Schedule 2 of the Act, are: the exercise of a right of audience before certain (higher) courts; the conduct of litigation (which can be described as the taking of formal steps in proceedings, such as issuing a claim or filing documents or forms); reserved instrument activities (which cover certain conveyancing transactions — for example, preparing and lodging transfers or charges with the Land Registry — and preparing instruments relating to court proceedings, such as pleadings); probate activities, namely preparing papers on which to seek or challenge a grant of probate or letters of administration; notarial activities (for which authorisation is granted by the Master of the Faculties); the administration of oaths. 2.4 The advice provided through ILA Hub does not fall into any of these categories. ILA is a non-reserved legal activity. As such — although all advice is provided by a practising solicitor who is individually regulated by the SRA — there is no requirement for ILA Hub, as a trading name, to be authorised or regulated by the SRA. This position has been confirmed by the SRA.

3. What are the implications of ILA Hub not being a separately regulated entity?

Rule 4.3 of the SRA Transparency Rules requires us to provide our clients with the following information. 3.1 Professional indemnity insurance 3.1.1 ILA Hub is not required to have professional indemnity insurance that meets the SRA Minimum Terms and Conditions. The SRA requires authorised firms that it regulates to have compulsory minimum levels of insurance to protect clients in case something goes wrong. Specifically, SRA-authorised firms are required to maintain insurance with a minimum level of cover of £2 million. These arrangements do not apply to ILA Hub because it is not regulated by the SRA. 3.1.2 Although ILA Hub is not required by the SRA to maintain insurance meeting those Minimum Terms, your work is covered by professional indemnity insurance that is adequate and appropriate to the scope, type, and value of the services we provide. 3.1.3 Further information, including details of the amount and scope of cover, can be requested by emailing daniel@dmcafeesolicitor.com. 3.2 SRA Compensation Fund 3.2.1 Because ILA Hub is not regulated by the SRA, you will not be able to make a claim on the SRA Compensation Fund. This fund is intended to help people who have suffered loss due to work carried out by a person or firm regulated by the SRA where: the loss was suffered because of the adviser’s dishonesty; or loss and hardship were suffered due to the adviser’s failure to account for money they have received (including a failure by a regulated person or firm to finish work for which they have been paid). 3.3 Legal Ombudsman 3.3.1 Because ILA Hub is not an SRA-authorised law firm, you will have no right to complain to the Legal Ombudsman about ILA Hub as a separate entity. 3.3.2 However, you can still complain to the Legal Ombudsman about Daniel personally — as an individual SRA-regulated solicitor — if you are not happy with the service provided to you or with his professional conduct. Our complaints procedure (set out in our Terms and Conditions of Service) sets out how to raise a complaint with us first; if you remain dissatisfied with our final response, or 8 weeks have passed without one, you may refer your complaint to: Legal Ombudsman website: legalombudsman.org.uk Telephone: 0300 555 0333 Post: Legal Ombudsman, PO Box 6167, Slough, SL1 0EH 3.3.3 You must usually refer a complaint to the Legal Ombudsman within 6 months of our final written response, and within 1 year of the act or omission complained of, or within 1 year of when you should reasonably have known there was cause for complaint. 3.4 Solicitors Regulation Authority 3.4.1 You can verify Daniel’s regulatory status at any time on the SRA’s public register at sra.org.uk. 3.4.2 Complaints about Daniel’s professional conduct as a solicitor (as opposed to the quality of service provided) may be made to the Solicitors Regulation Authority.

4. Contact

4.1 Any questions about this Regulatory Notice, or any request for information about the matters covered in it, can be sent to daniel@dmcafeesolicitor.com.