General News
Will Aid Working with the Certainty National Will Register
03 December 2009
Will Aid has teamed up with Certainty to enable the public to register their Wills during this years Will Aid campaign which runs throughout November. Will Aid is endorsed by the Probate Section of the Law Society who encourage their members to participate. Will Aid is one of the most effective fundraising campaigns and depends on a [...] Read More
Certainty much more than just a Will Register
03 December 2009
Looking seriously at protecting Private Clients? Then look seriously at Certainty because it is ’so much more than just a Will Register’. Importantly, private client retention and development has been cleverly integrated into Certainty. This ensures Certainty is a powerful and vital resource for firms to help protect and increase private client work. With the legal landscape [...] Read More
STEP Autumn Conference
03 December 2009
The Certainty National Will Register is the proud sponsor of the forthcoming STEP Autumn Conference. The conference will take place on the 9th October 2009 in London. Certainty has been touring the country meeting Wills & Probate solicitors and STEP members at various legal conferences. At these conferences Certainty provides a brief overview of Will Search [...] Read More
To be or not to be Compulsory
19 August 2009
The primary purpose of the Certainty National Will Register is to give each individual member of the public an opportunity to safeguard their most important document and so protect their family from further distress after their death. This should be an issue of choice which does not rely on everyone else being compelled to do [...] Read More
Carelessness, Confusion and the curse of intestacy
07 August 2009
Paul Bricknell of Liverpool solicitors Mace & Jones, a Certainty founder-member firm, says: “Making a Will is not the only important step to take. There is no doubt that every year people’s estates are administered as if they were intestate, even if they had prepared a Will, simply because no one knows where the [...] Read More
It’s a hit
02 August 2009
Certainty announced it has received in excess of 90,000 hits to its website from the public within the first 12 months of going live. Lea Bellion, Head of Customer Relations, Certainty says: “We are extremely pleased with the amount of visits to the Certainty website from members of the public. The site offers the public [...] Read More
Should Will drafting be regulated? By Gill Steel
27 July 2009
The vexed question of whether or not Will drafting should be regulated has dogged the legal world for years. However, as we await deliberations on the regulation of solicitors by Lord Hunt on behalf of the Law Society and the decision of the newly created Legal Services Board on which legal services should be regulated [...] Read More
In an uncertain world there is now Certainty
27 July 2009
Registering a client’s Will delivers real benefits to the Wills and Probate professional in addition to the families of the deceased. For if a Will cannot be found the consequences may be two-fold: The estate is deemed intestate, so the testator’s wishes are in effect ignored. The solicitor who prepared the undiscovered Will loses the probate [...] Read More
Why would I need lasting powers of attorney and what’s involved?
26 June 2009
This is a letter the Certainty National Will Register has received from a member of the public. Ageing is expected in any population and looking after elderly relatives is only one part of this community wide problem. People of any age who are rendered unable to look after themselves properly as a result of disease or [...] Read More
Parents want to give me lasting powers of attorney
15 June 2009
This is a letter the Certainty National Will Register has received from a member of the public. My elderly parents have expressed interest in giving me lasting powers of attorney. On reasearching the subject, it appears that there are two types. The Personal and Welfare lasting powers of attorney allows a person to hand over the [...] Read More
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