Wills And Probate Teams Urged To Embrace “Smarter Working”
Management consultancy Journey4, has released guidance on how businesses can implement ‘Smarter Working’, following lessons learned by businesses in the wake of coronavirus. Director, Stuart Pearce, outlines some key research findings and what this could mean for Private Client practitioners. There is no doubt that the pandemic and lockdown restrictions caused companies and staff to […]
Free Webinar: Managing Assets In Estate Administration
You’re invited to join Title Research’s next informative webinar taking place on Wednesday 2nd September at 12:00. The free 45-minute session will look at the often-overlooked area of managing assets in estate administration. Title Research’s Head of Business, Anthony Allsopp, will take this time to provide an in-depth overview of how you can most efficiently […]
Outlook for Legacy Income Continues To Improve For 2020
Legacy Foresight has updated its projections of the impact of Covid-19 on UK legacy market, to take account of the latest available economic, demographic and administrative information. Legacy Foresight has introduced a new central scenario, which represents their ‘best estimate’ for the path of legacy income over the five-year forecasting period, in addition to the […]
The Signs Of Contentious Probate And Why A Specialist Is Needed
Article by Mark Terrar, Partner at Meridian Private Client LLP and listed specialist in the Certainty Contentious Probate Hub & Area What is Contentious Probate? Contentious Probate can be defined as a dispute arising out of someone’s estate after they have passed away. There has in recent years been a considerable build-up of wealth for […]
Reminder: Changes To Furlough Scheme Next Month
The Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme also known as the furlough scheme will be changing from 1 September 2020. From next month the scheme will only pay 70% of an employees wage, up to a maximum of £2,187.50 per month for the hours they don’t work. Employers will need to pay the 10% top up to […]
Time-Poor Legal Firms Too Busy For New Business
Legal professionals are too busy to win new business, despite the average value of a case being £4,000, according to a new research report. Commissioned by leading outsourced communications provider Moneypenny, the report polled 250 senior legal decision makers from across the UK and discovered that 92% of firms struggle to handle new enquiries due […]
Pandemic Helps Technology Embed Itself In Legal Sector
The legal sector isn’t well known as an industry that embraces technology. Often relying on laws that are hundreds of years old, the public perception of this archaic sense of working can be understandable. But who would have known that in 2020 a global pandemic would sweep over the world, with various countries initiating lockdowns […]
Law Society Survey Results Revealed In Application To Legal Services Board
In an application to the Legal Services Board (LSB) that has the Law Society asking for the Practising Certificate (PC) fee to remain the same, the results from a recent survey, regarding the fee, have been revealed. The survey, undertaken between the 8 June and 10 July, asked solicitors whether they felt the current fees […]
Certainty Will Search Wins Probate Work
Lawson West Solicitors are a firm who have been providing legal advice to the people of Leicestershire and beyond for over 40 years, they have been members of Certainty the National Will Register since 2016. Victoria Jones, Director of the Probate and Wills department at the firm explains how a Certainty Will Search notification led […]
STEP Guidance For Video Wills
Our ‘Technical Corner’ brings you information that will help you to continue to grow and develop in your career. This month’s technical corner article comes from Emily Deane TEP, STEP Technical Counsel. If you have any questions for our panel of experts, please submit them using the contact form below. We will publish the questions […]
Video Wills: Covid19 Legislation Clarified
In Video wills: What the Government Really Said, 31 July 2020, I highlighted the conflicting messaging within the government’s press release and its Guidance on making wills using video-conferencing, which was published on 25 July. The Guidance reflects many of the suggestions that I made for clarifying section 9 Wills Act 1837 in my first […]
Majority Of Will Writers Won’t Enact Video Will Witnessing
In our latest sentiment survey, in which we focused on the return to ‘normality’, we wanted to see what the future would hold for Will writing professionals. Clearly there are concerns around client welfare and the risk of a second wave; with over 70% of participants revealing that they now offer alternate options to face-to-face […]
Tracey Quirk Explains How MSB Solicitors Worked During Lockdown
Adapting to the new normal has been difficult for many people. The social distancing, working from home, furlough scheme and redundancy has made 2020 one of the hardest years to survive from a professional viewpoint. That doesn’t take into account the personal tribulations many people have had to face. Although, we’re now over half-way through […]
What Is Cryptocurrency?
It is thought that we are slowly transitioning into a cashless society. We’ve had the introduction of contactless payments, and Apple and Android pay. So why, wouldn’t we consider leaving some of our cash in digital form too. Over the next couple of weeks, we’re going to be taking a look at cryptocurrency and see […]
Spotlight On The Dignity Promise
Dignity launched the Dignity Promise^ on 1st October 2019. This is a great enhancement to their range of Funeral Plans and makes them even more competitive in the funeral plan market. Dignity is one of the only providers to offer this kind of guarantee to customers who opt to pay for their plans over a […]
Celebrating Ten Years Of The Bold Legal Group
Free online forum now available to all conveyancers The Bold Legal Group is celebrating its 10th anniversary this year. Founder Rob Hailstone said: “It is no secret that the BLG was formed after Hips went, and that Bold stood for bundle of legal documents. However, pretty quickly in 2010 I realised that voluntary packs were […]
The Winds Of Change Have Begun To Blow
You would have had to be living on another planet to be unaware that the Ministry of Justice (MOJ) recently announced that the law of Wills in England & Wales is to be amended to allow the remote electronic witnessing of Wills using video conferencing software. Once signed by the testator, a Will can then […]
Digital Discussion Group Continues To Grow
The Today’s Wills and Probate Weekly Discussion LinkedIn Group has continued to grow throughout the coronavirus pandemic, with more and more professionals wanting to share their knowledge and virtually network with their peers during lockdown and the return to ‘normality’. The group now has 540 members, with many more people requesting to join on a […]
Certainty Expert Webinar Presents Michael Culver, Partner, Bolt Burdon
We’re pleased to welcome Michael Culver, Partner at Bolt Burdon who will be presenting our next Certainty Expert Webinar on Tuesday 18th August at 12.00pm, titled ‘Making your Will Files Bullet Proof: Top tips to ensure your more difficult Will clients involving capacity issues or contentious family matters will stand up to scrutiny following a Larke […]
Regional Solicitor Firm Of The Year Shortlist Announced
Excitement is growing for The British Wills and Probate awards, as the Regional Solicitor Firm of the Year shortlists have been revealed. The awards are brought to you by Today’s Wills and Probate, alongside headline sponsor, Arken.legal (UK) Ltd, a leader in software solutions for the Wills and estate planning industry. Solicitor Firm of the […]
