Joel Patterson

Digital Will Execution: The s.9 Checklist — A technical note on the formalities of will execution, the recurring failure points, and why England and Wales still lacks an assured route for wholly electronic wills

A will is one of the few instruments in English private law whose validity still turns on a formality framed in 1837 and executed correctly in a ceremony that death makes unrepeatable. Section 9 of the Wills Act 1837, in the form substituted by the Administration of Justice Act 1...