Insights
Practice notes on remote witnessing, free to read and free to use.
Written for Victorian practitioners. Cite them, circulate them, and tell us where you think we have it wrong.
Executing a will remotely under section 8A: a working framework
Each requirement of the remote execution procedure, what Re Curtis (2022) 68 VR 40 says it means, what any compliant process would have to do, and the questions that remain open.
Inside
- 1Why remote witnessing matters
- 2Each requirement, and what it means
- 3What a compliant process has to do
- 4The questions still open
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In preparation
Two more notes are being written.
- 02In preparation
When execution goes wrong, the firm usually bears the cost.
The remediation path and its cost, with the method stated so every input can be checked.
- 03In preparation
Will-makers expect to sign remotely, and practitioners expect not to.
Where what will-makers understand and what the Act requires part ways.
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