Rise in cost of death certificates E&W

Gers

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-47240151

pphillips

Might now be cheaper to just to buy one certificate and pay a solicitor for certified copies.

Yorkshireman99

pphillips wrote: »

Might now be cheaper to just to buy one certificate and pay a solicitor for certified copies.

Unlikely as that would be a breach of copyright. Any solicitor with their wits about them would not do so.

getmore4less

https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/documents/information-management/reproduction-of-birth-death-marriage-certificates.pdf

Malthusian

A 12% per year increase (last price increase was in 2010). Don't you just love captive markets. Yum yum.

MovingForwards

Yorkshireman99 wrote: »

Unlikely as that would be a breach of copyright. Any solicitor with their wits about them would not do so.

When dealing with probate 90% of the time it's a certified photocopy sent to the bank / building society etc to notify them of a death.

TonyMMM

The price rise for a locally issued certificate has risen from £10 to £11, so after nearly ten years not a huge increase.

The jump is because there was a discounted rate for certificates "issued at the time of registration" of £4 which has been discontinued. So that does have a big impact.

It will make people think a little more carefully about how many are really required.

badger09

MovingForwards wrote: »

When dealing with probate 90% of the time it's a certified photocopy sent to the bank / building society etc to notify them of a death.

True, but those Certified Copies are produced by the Registrar if requested when registering the death, or by the GRO if requested later.

Are you perhaps confusing this with copies of the will, certified by a solicitor, which are frequently used to send to banks etc?.

TonyMMM

Although contrary to GRO guidance, many solicitors will certify photocopies of certificates (I know mine does, and charges £5 per copy), and many institutions will accept such copies.

getmore4less

There is no such thing as an "original" death certificate,

All the official ones you get are copies off the register and known as "originals"

The key is that 3rd party certification of reproductions of those is not allowed for identification purposes, only for archival record by those that have seen an "original".

jimbo6977

TonyMMM wrote: »

Although contrary to GRO guidance, many solicitors will certify photocopies of certificates (I know mine does, and charges £5 per copy), and many institutions will accept such copies.

This^^

I know several dozen solicitors who are perfectly happy to certify photocopies.
If they weren't, much of the country would grind to a halt.
I suspect the authorities know this and don't enforce the copyright.