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I am executor of a will. Probate is delayed because the witnesses cannot
be found. Will was made 30 years ago. One witness is a solicitor. The
legal board will only tell you the date they were registered, nothing
more. But if they were practising family law, there is a list where one
can get contact details. The law firm that made the will closed down
without having any website. From old White Pages, I found likely
residence of the solicitor near the old office, but she no longer lives
there. There was a likely match on Linkedin. I sent message, but no
reply. A solicitor would know about the probate requirements and I would
hope respond if it was the actual solicitor. I also tried electoral
rolls, nothing showed up. Perhaps they have silent enrolment.

So would be nice if one could look up Joe Bloggs practising in whatever
city and get an e-mail address.

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Ozix <ozix@xizo.am> wrote

I am executor of a will. Probate is delayed because the witnesses cannot
be found. Will was made 30 years ago. One witness is a solicitor. The
legal board will only tell you the date they were registered, nothing
more. But if they were practising family law, there is a list where one
can get contact details. The law firm that made the will closed down without having any website. From old White Pages, I found likely
residence of the solicitor near the old office, but she no longer lives there. There was a likely match on Linkedin. I sent message, but no
reply. A solicitor would know about the probate requirements and I would hope respond if it was the actual solicitor. I also tried electoral
rolls, nothing showed up. Perhaps they have silent enrolment.

You don't normally need to find any witness https://g.co/gemini/share/d9260282a925

The system is designed to handle the situation where the witness(es)
are now dead

So would be nice if one could look up Joe Bloggs practising in whatever city and get an e-mail address.

But the witness doesnt have to be a lawyer
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Rod Speed wrote:

You don't normally need to find any witness https://g.co/gemini/share/d9260282a925

The system is designed to handle the situation where the witness(es)
are now dead

The AI summary maybe doesn't apply to WA, which is stricter about it.
If witnesses are dead, you are off the hook. Otherwise, you have to
submit a statement of the efforts you made to find witnesses, when they
are AWOL.
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Ozix <ozix@xizo.am> wrote

Rod Speed wrote

You don't normally need to find any witness
https://g.co/gemini/share/d9260282a925
The system is designed to handle the situation where the witness(es)
are now dead

The AI summary maybe doesn't apply to WA, which is stricter about it.
If witnesses are dead, you are off the hook. Otherwise, you have to
submit a statement of the efforts you made to find witnesses, when they
are AWOL.

But your proposal for a list of solicitors won't work
because the witnesses don't have to be solicitors
and I can't see that they would be at all happy
to have to have their email or physical address
available to anyone who has an issue with them
because they were involved with someone they
had a legal issue with. In spades once they have
retired and you would see solicitors refusing to
witness wills.

And when you can't find a solicitor, all you have to do is say that
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