Probate notices are normally placed in the London Gazette and a local paper for the area where the deceased person lived. If anybody has a claim to make on that person’s estate, they have two months and one day after the date of the publication of the notice in which to make it. This cut off point is known as the ‘date of claims’. Because our clients are so confident in our knowledge of the media, we are frequently trusted to determine this date, and to work out in which editions of a given local paper a notice should run, in order for it to appear on the very same day as its publication in the London Gazette.
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Licensing notices must appear in the press no more than ten days after the date on which an application is submitted to the council. We therefore have to act as efficiently as possible, immediately calling the relevant local council to find out which papers they accept, and then liaising with that paper to find the next available publication date. On the day that the notice is due to appear we will call the relevant publication to check that the notice appeared correctly, and on which page. As soon as we receive copies of the publication, we then send a voucher copy of the notice to both the client and the council by courier the same day.