It’s Time To Fall Back In Love With The Phone
Bernadette Bennett, Commercial Manager – Legal at Moneypenny, explains why it’s a good call for organisations to focus on answering the phone – and doing it well – during unprecedented times. Over recent years, we’ve seen huge investment in digitalisation. The options for communicating with legal professionals have diversified to include platforms such as Instagram, […]
Scottish Wills Permitted To Use Video Witnesses
Given the restrictions imposed on solicitors and Will writers whilst in a lock down situation, Scottish Law has been amended to allow video conference facilities to assist in witnessing a testator signing their Will. Social distancing and isolation as a result of measures to reduce the spread of Covid-19 is causing huge difficulties for the […]
Probate Delays Impact Annual Issued Grants
The issues with disseminating grants of probate last year created an 11 per cent reduction in grants of representation being issued when compared with 2018. In total, 236,000 grants of representation were issued in 2019, according to the Office for National Statistics’ (ONS) ‘Family Court Statistics Quarterly, England and Wales, October to December 2019 including […]