Covid home-testing pilot to launch at QEII The Government has outlined its testing strategy, which includes giving access to lateral flow testing for critical workers that must leave home for work. HMCTS has been working…
Annotated Probate Forms and updated Q&As These annotated probate forms and updated Q&As are useful for probate practitioners: PA1P Probate application where the person who has died left a will. PA1A Probate application where…
Civil Litigation Practitioners: Covid- 19 Liverpool Court Guidance His Honour Judge Wood QC has kindly forwarded the following Covid- 19 Guidance of 27 May 2020 which also includes the formal control measures in place at Liverpool…
New Grant of Representation Application Forms for Professionals -HMCTS Update Further to my letter of 19th March advising of the launch of new standard application forms for professional-practitioners, we have received some valuable feedback in respect of the…
New Police Disclosure Guidance session for family practitioners – 22 May HHJ de Haas and HHJ Parker have decided that this session will take place via Zoom with a view to the new order being used from 1st June…
WILLS – Call for Examples (urgent deadline included) The Law Society want to try and gather information about any members who are struggling to get original wills to the Probate Registry, please let me know if…
Land Registry relaxes ID rules for Covid crisis Article by Michael Cross|1 May 2020| Law Society Gazette HM Land Registry has taken a tentative step towards accepting electronic signatures on deeds and relaxed some identity verification…
Covid- 19 testing for Solicitors Solicitors helping to keep the justice system running will be able to get tested for Covid-19, The Law Society has said. The government had already prioritised courts and…
Note on police disclosure interim guidance NOTE POLICE DISCLOSURE INTERIM GUIDANCE Merseyside/Cheshire Police have had considerable difficulties in complying with requests for disclosure in that the same have become disproportionate and orders continuously are…
SRA Guidance on Wills Wills, SRA Guidance re Coronavirus March 2020 I have added my own comments in the blue type and initialled each paragraph, I have no special status or authority…
