Professional News
Minimising the Risk
03 December 2009
Since joining Certainty 6 months ago Morrisons Solicitors has registered over 400 Wills on behalf of their clients. Morrisons is a typical example of a firm that has embraced Will registration and used it to create a very positive effect for both client and firm. Morrisons Solicitors is one of Surrey’s leading law firms who has [...] Read More
The Marketing Agenda – By Ian Cooper
03 December 2009
In the last few months I have been asked to advise a number of small and medium sized firms on how to develop their private client department. As part of the planning process I asked each of these firms who they regarded as their competition? Every firm e-mailed me back a list of half a [...] Read More
Private Client – the Jewel in the Crown (April 2009)
30 April 2009
A national Will Register is not a new idea. Lack of technology and funding has previously hampered the implementation of an effective Will Register. My fellow legal colleagues and I joined Certainty because we realised it had taken an old idea (a Wills Register), grabbed it by the scruff of the neck and turned it into [...] Read More
One Year on – what the Members Say… (April 2009)
29 April 2009
During the last 12 months hundreds of solicitors’ practices in England & Wales have joined Certainty in order to offer their clients the unique benefits that Certainty’s on-line national Will Register service provides. We asked four firms for their comments on progress so far. Reading-based Boyes Turner is one of the UK’s leading full service law [...] Read More
Professionals in England and Wales now have a National Will Register (Sept 2008)
24 April 2009
A national will register is not a new idea. Lack of technology and funding has previously hampered the implementation of an effective will register. Developed over a two-year period, Certainty.co.uk has invested in excess of £1.5 million to provide a truly innovative national will register. Extensive research has ensured that the register complies with legal requirements. [...] Read More
A round-up of recent events in probate by Professor Lesley King, College of Law London
16 March 2009
Source: Law Society Gazette 03/03/2009 The statutory legacy payable on intestacy to surviving spouses and civil partners rose as of 1 February 2009 to £250,000 where there are children and £450,000 where there are no children but parents or siblings. Spouses and civil partners have a right to capitalise the life interest under sections 46 and 47 [...] Read More
Overwhelming public support for regulation of will writers – Law Society Press Release
04 March 2008
Tuesday 08 August 2006 Eight out of ten people want the government to protect them from untrained and unregulated will writers, according to a new survey. An ICM poll found that 85 per cent of adults believe that everyone offering will-making services should be properly regulated. A growing number of people are being exploited by people claiming to [...] Read More
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