Banks. By Your Side? Or Causing Chaos For Estates And Executries
Earlier this year, Lloyds Banking Group discovered it was holding more than 190,000 envelopes containing valuable papers which it could not match to its list of current customers. After further examination, it was discovered within these papers were approximately 9,000 wills of customers who had already passed away. A department at Lloyds was tasked in […]
Probate Sector Set For Significant Changes By 2027
The Law Society are urging the legal sector to embrace modernity by adapting to a more ‘deregulated environment, stronger commercial pressures and increasing adoption of technology.’ Employment in the legal sector is predicted to fall 13% by 2027, according to the Law Society’s Strategic Workforce Planning reports. Despite the number of legal professionals in England […]
Pensions Gender Gap Ever-Widening
The number of women who have not enrolled into a pension continues to dramatically widen. There has always been a big gender gap in UK retirement incomes as last year research revealed that the gender gap almost trebled over the past ten years, according to the Royal London’s analysis. Meanwhile, last month research from Aegon found that the number of women […]