Terms of Business

These Terms of Business and my instruction sheet (which I shall usually email to you, or give you immediately before we meet and which I shall ask you to sign) together form the basis of my contract with you for any work I do for you, including my minimum fee for notarising a straightforward document. I will give you an estimate, including third party fees and expenses, before we meet, based on facts as you state them. I do not have to charge VAT.

My charges (including any third party payments I may have to make on your behalf) are payable at the time of our meeting, unless I agree otherwise. I reserve the right not to release documents before payment is made.

In unusual cases I may need to qualify my notarisation, if there are facts I am unable to verify and a document may not be acceptable abroad in such a case. I undertake such work only on the basis that you accept that possibility.

Except so far as excluded by the Unfair Contract Terms Act 1977, my liability for any loss, injury or damage of any nature whatever, whether direct or consequential, including (without limitation) in respect of negligence or breach of duty of care is limited to £750,000.00 in respect of any one claim or series of related claims.

I am regulated by the Faculty Office of the Archbishop of Canterbury. Its email address is This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. and its website www.facultyoffice.org.uk.

I am a member of the Notaries Society. Its email address is This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. and its website www.thenotariessociety.org.uk.

The Notaries Society manages a Complaints Procedure, as approved by the Faculty Office. If you wish to complain please contact me, and if the matter cannot be resolved by us I will refer the matter to the Notaries Society. If you prefer to do so, you can complain to the Notaries Society direct, instead of me, in which case please write with full details of your complaint to Christopher Vaughan, Secretary.

If you do complain under the Notaries Society Approved Complaints Procedure and are dissatisfied with the outcome you may, after completion of that procedure, or eight weeks after the date you complain to me, complain direct to the Legal Ombudsman, the email address of which is This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. and the website of which is www.legalombudsman.org.uk.

I am registered with the Data Protection Agency and keep electronic or other copies of all documents as required by the professional Rules by which I am qualified.