Yamaç Güneyli, founder and the managing director of GLC, is a Registered Foreign Lawyer ("RFL") that is defined in section 89 of the Courts and Legal Services Act 1990 (CLSA) as "a person who is not a solicitor of England and Wales or a barrister but who is a member, and entitled to practise as such, of a legal profession regulated within a jurisdiction outside of England and Wales".
Accordingly, in addition to practising the law of Turkey, he also advises on English and Welsh law law in relation to the provision of unreserved legal services and certain other services in the U.K. set out below:
- Carry out or supervise any unreserved English and Welsh legal work and foreign legal work (including business or financial advice, or making business or financial arrangements);
- Assist in the conduct of litigation under the instructions and supervision of a person entitled to carry out that reserved legal activity and may carry out the reserved legal activity of rights of audience in relation to such litigation if the proceedings are held in Chambers in the High Court or a county court and are not reserved family proceedings.
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