Skype, FaceTime and email will be used by solicitors to draw up wills for their clients because of Covid-19 restrictions. This is a new departure for Irish law as traditionally clients would have drawn up their wills at their solicitor's office.
These changes are part of recommendations made in a circular sent to solicitors throughout Ireland and comes as there is a surge in the number of people making wills.
The recommendations advise solicitors how they should provide those legal services safely in the current environment. The President of the Law Society of Ireland, Michele O’Boyle, issued the letter and said the measures are a "totally new departure". "It’s a completely new departure because heretofore traditionally the client would