Lost Cousins' Peter Calver has just sent this urgent email:
Cost of wills to increase by 966% BREAKING NEWS
When the cost of post-1858 wills dropped by 85% from £10 to £1.50 in July 2019 it was a very pleasant surprise – and I suspect that, like me, you’ve ordered all the wills you want. At least, I hope you have….
From Monday 17th November the cost is going up by 966%, from £1.50 to £16, a price that – according to paragraph 5.16 of the explanatory memorandum published by the government – is closer to the actual cost. Frankly, whether it is or whether it isn’t will depend entirely on whether someone else has ordered the will in the past 6 years, ie since the service went digital – if they have, then I doubt it costs more than £1.50 to process the order but, if they haven’t and the document(s) need to be located and digitized, then £16 is a much more realistic figure.
Some people will see this swingeing increase as a response to the almost universal rejection of the Ministry of Justice’s plans to digitize all of the wills and destroy the originals. Whether or not this is the case, the best thing we can do right now is fill any gaps in our collection of post-1858 wills.
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