Wills kitemark

A quality standard for wills and estate administration has been launched by the Law Society. The Wills and Inheritance Quality Scheme (WIQS) will open for applications on 31 October from Solicitors Regulation Authority regulated practices that offer will drafting, probate and estate administration services. Applicants will be assessed, and must undertake compulsory training, self-reporting, random audits and annual reviews. Earlier this year, the Lord Chancellor refused to concede to calls by the Law Society and Legal Services Board for the law to be changed so that only properly trained, regulated and insured people would be authorised to draw up wills.