Last month, Money Mail revealed how a private firm based in Essex is at the root of a major backlog of probate applications. But experts have complained of long waits for wills to be scanned and a high number of errors, causing yet more delays. And when Money Mail visited the firm's office in an industrial estate in Harlow, Essex, we saw hundreds of boxes stacked up high inside. Now readers say they are being told the firm has lost the original documents they submitted. Stephanie Boyce, president of the Law Society, says: 'The Ministry of Justice's persistence of raising fees in the probate service is worrying, particularly when there are continued and significant delays to the probate service.

Source: The Nation July 14, 2021 03:00 UTC