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   Charles Ellson to rail@greywall.demon.co.uk   
   Re: Fwd: Intended free-to-access probate   
   13 Aug 25 16:20:44   
   
   From: charlesellson@btinternet.com   
      
   On Tue, 12 Aug 2025 22:09:19 +0100, Graeme Wall   
    wrote:   
      
   >On 12/08/2025 19:07, Peter Johnson wrote:   
   >> On Tue, 12 Aug 2025 14:17:28 +0100, Roger Mills   
   >>  wrote:   
   >>   
   >>>   
   >>> Will you be able to download a copy of a will, like you can for a small   
   >>> payment on the government probate site?   
   >>   
   >> Don't know the answer to that but I'd like to say how remarkable it is   
   >> that when wills first became available for download they cost £10 and   
   >> since then the price has been reduced to £1.50. Wonder how they   
   >> managed to reduce the price when most other services find excuses to   
   >> increase them.   
   >   
   >Pile them high, sell them cheap perhaps. At a tenner each I'll have one,   
   >at £1.50 I'll have a dozen.   
   >   
   The costs reduce greatly once the whole lot is filmed and manual   
   handling is cut out. Some jurisdictions don't even bother to charge   
   for online access to older wills and records whose production in   
   certified form is a near zero requirement.   
      
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