"Will making over the internet - can we or can't we?" webinar

Online Seminar
CPD Hours: 3

Cost: members £50.00 + VAT ; non-members £75.00 + VAT

Firms are increasingly using websites as marketing or information gathering tools and both new and established clients may use the internet to find Will preparation practitioners. As a result, solicitors are increasingly using electronic means to take instructions for Wills, and then prepare and send them to the client.

There are three main areas of risk that arise when using electronic means to communicate with clients – electronic security; contractual and tortuous liabilities, and obligations imposed by the Solicitors’ Code of Conduct.

This Wills & Equity Committee event in association with the Private Client Section will promote the risks associated with preparing Wills electronically, highlight how to mitigate some of these risks, and discuss whether preparing Wills electronically is within the bounds of the Solicitors’ Code of Conduct, and more importantly whether it is safe to do so.

Topics to be covered include:

Subject	Speaker
Opening comments	Helen Clarke, Chair, Wills & Equity Committee
The SRA's position	Richard Collins, SRA
How can a law firm protect itself from negligence	Elspeth Talbot Rice QC, XXIV Old Buildings
The bulk provider's view	Gillian Coverley & Richard Clarke, Irwin Mitchell
IT and the will making process	Richard Cohen, Epoq
Cyber security risks and the CIA	Timothy Hall, The Law Society
Fulfilling duties to the testator when using an online method	Nicholas Bohm, Technology & Law Reform Reference Group
Validity of Wills - Evidential support from IT in the Courts	Mr Justice Lewison

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