Notaries and notarisation—notaries


Produced in partnership with Jenny Bird of Macfarlanes
Practice notes

Notaries and notarisation—notaries


Produced in partnership with Jenny Bird of Macfarlanes

Practice notes
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The Notaries Society has prepared a useful leaflet providing a brief history and describing the work of the notaries profession which is available in English and in several foreign languages.

History

The notaries profession is the oldest of the three branches of the legal profession in England and Wales having its origins in the civil institutions of ancient Rome. There is little recorded history of the profession in England and Wales prior to 1279 when Pope Nicholas III granted to the Archbishop of Canterbury, the faculty of appointing three notaries within a year. During the reformation, the Ecclesiastical Licences Act 1533 (ELA 1533) transferred to the Archbishop of Canterbury, the power to grant faculties to notaries.

The first statutory recognition of the notaries profession was the Public Notaries Act 1801 (PNA 1801) followed by the Public Notaries Act 1843 (PNA 1843), the Courts and Legal Services Act 1990 and latterly the Legal Services Act 2007 (LSA 2007). LSA 2007, s 13 came into force on 1 January 2010 preserving the jurisdiction of the Court of Faculties while LSA 2007,

Jenny Bird
Jenny Bird

Senior Associate, Macfarlanes

Jenny advises individuals, families, executors and trustees primarily based in the UK on a wide variety of UK tax, trust, succession and estate planning issues.

Jenny has broad experience in many aspects of the law that individuals encounter on a day-to-day basis including advising on and setting up trusts, administering estates, drafting wills and providing tax advice. She is part of our probate team and since qualifying as an associate in 2010, she has been involved with the administration of complex and high-value estates, including estates with cross-border elements and estates where offers in lieu of inheritance tax have been made.

Jenny qualified as a Notary Public in August 2015 and is able to provide notarial services to individuals and companies.

Jenny is a member of STEP (Society of Trust and Estate Practitioners) and the Notaries Society.

Qualified in England and Wales, 2010.

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