...Reforms to our probate service will enable people to apply for grants of probate more simply and with greater confidence. Where we’ve already made changes we know they can make...
...for probate as efficient as possible for everyone using our service. From January to September 2021, we received 130,000 probate applications from practitioners. Although most applications proceeded smoothly – taking...
...system are so important. A considerable number of applications for probate have to be stopped because we need further information or assurance before we can issue a grant of probate....
...some people may struggle to separate the new probate offering from the delays that hit the probate service in spring and summer 2019. These were not caused by the online...
[English] - [Cymraeg] Hello, I’m Paul Downer, Service Manager at HMCTS with responsibility for delivering a new online probate service. We’ll be transforming the probate service to introduce a new...
[English] - [Cymraeg] I remember going through probate when my father died in 2013. I would not wish my own experience of the application process on anyone, let alone someone...
When someone close to us dies, applying for probate can be a daunting prospect at a difficult time and we know that a bad experience can add to an already...
...this particularly challenging time. Our aim in the probate service is to ease the burden of people who are grieving, by making the process of applying for probate as easy...
...towards increased use of digital services, with, for example, the number of people opting for the digital platform over paper for their probate applications more than quadrupling since 2019. Satisfaction...
...support to access justice, which include those in domestic violence, probate, housing possession and social security tribunals. As a result, we recently published a 'Vulnerable User Action Plan' which includes...
