FOR VICTORIAN LAW FIRMS
Remote execution, properly recorded.
Kellon builds the workflow and evidence infrastructure for remotely witnessed statutory documents - starting with wills and powers of attorneys.
In development with a small number of Victorian firms.
WHY NOW
The law settled in 2020. The standard is being written now.
Section 8A is not a temporary measure. Remote execution is a permanent feature of Victorian practice, available for every will and enduring power of attorney signed from here.
What isn't settled is the output when that document is questioned years later. That is what is moving now. The Court has already shown what a contemporaneous record of a signing can carry. Registry requirements are becoming more explicit. The profession is turning to the question of practice guidance.
The old way — reconstructed after
“Signing went
fineok. Witnesses were…both present?I think both on the call. Started around10-ish. ID —checkedpretty sure. Need to confirm the second witness saw the final page.”
With Kellon — captured as it happens
- Session start & end timestamped
- Each participant confirmed present, on record
- Identity & sighting steps logged in order
- Sealed evidence pack on the file, same day
THE PRACTICE IS ALREADY FAMILIAR
Victorian practitioners have witnessed affidavits by audio-visual link for years. Remote witnessing is not novel, and it is not the difficult part.
THE CONSEQUENCES ARE NOT
- An affidavit is tested within months, a will is tested years later.
- An affidavit has the deponent present to answer; a will has no-one.
- An enduring power of attorney is tested at the moment it is exercised, often for the same reason.
The file note that is sufficient for one is not sufficient for the other.
THE FIRMS GOING FIRST SET THE STANDARD
What becomes normal practice for remote execution is being decided now, by the firms forming a view on it and the bodies writing guidance around them. We are building Kellon with a small number of those firms.
WHAT KELLON DOES
One workflow. A complete record. Every matter.
01
01 · participants confirmed
02 · document displayed
03 · testator signs
04 · locked until 03
Guided execution
Runs the session in order, so nothing rests on memory.
How it works02
who was present
what was observed
in what order
entered at that time
Contemporaneous capture
Records what happened, as it happens.
How it works03
sealed at close
hash fixed
yours, on your file
legible without us
Sealed Record
An evidence pack for the file, complete on the day.
What is in the recordBUILT TO THE STANDARD
Built to the standard, not around it.
Victoria's legislation sets the requirements for remote execution. The courts have begun to show what evidence of meeting them looks like. Kellon's workflow is built around both.
HOW WE BUILD
0Structured conversations with practitioners, principals and registry stakeholders
We are building Kellon in close conversation with the profession, and with the institutions that see these documents when they are tested. Infrastructure for legal practice has to be built to the standard the profession is held to.
OUR FOUNDERS
Lynn Chan
CO-FOUNDER & CEO
Took the calls from families searching for a will nobody could locate.
Admitted lawyer, JD Monash, architecture before law.
Taha Akbarally
CO-FOUNDER & CTO
Studied law to understand why the system resists change, then built software for professionals inside it.
JD Monash, mathematical physics.
WHERE THIS GOES
“Execution is the entry point.”
The record that makes a signing defensible also makes a document locatable and verifiable across its life. Over time, Kellon extends toward the full lifecycle of these documents - carefully, and in step with the profession.
FOUNDING FIRMS