Notary Public Leicester

This is a Notary Public with an office in Leicester City Centre. The notary provides services for businesses and individuals. Services for businesses include assignments or registration of trade marks, apostille and legalisation service, witnessing a power of attorney, notarisation of company documents, affidavits, statutory declarations, sworn statements, share issues certified by a notary public, and property transactions, transfers, purchases, sales. Services for individuals include copies of passports, setting up a power of attorney, certified copies of documents such as exam certificates, transfers of land, houses, shares, lost passports, share certificates, statutory declarations made before a notary public, declarations of single status when getting married, oaths, and permission to let one parent travel with children.

The notary can authenticate or witness most documents and arrange legalisation or obtain Apostilles. The notary's signature and seal verify to authorities in the destination country that relevant checks have been carried out and the document has been properly signed. Many countries require notarised documents to be legalised, which is a double check to make sure that the notary's signature is genuine and recognised by the Foreign and Commonwealth Office. Documents may also be checked by foreign embassies to make sure that the notary's signature matches the one on their records. Once the authenticity of the signature is confirmed a certificate is attached, called an 'Apostille'. If a document requiring notarisation is in a foreign language it is usually necessary for the document to be translated by an official legal translator who may then have to sign a statutory declaration certifying that it is a true translation.

In exceptional cases the Notary may be satisfied to fix their seal of office and signature on documents in a foreign language if they are fully satisfied that the person signing is conversant with the language of the document. Following the implementation of the Money Laundering Regulations 2017, notaries are obliged to keep sufficient evidence on their files of the identity and the address of all their clients before they undertake any work. Notaries form a small, highly specialised branch of the legal profession, whose area of specialisation is the preparation and certification of documents so that they may be used effectively abroad. The notary's primary duty is to the transaction and the authenticity of the documents. Notaries are recognised worldwide and have to maintain absolute integrity and impartiality to maintain the standing of the Notarial profession.

In Leicester, this notarial practice handles document work that clients consistently describe as quick, thorough and professionally managed. Responsiveness is a recurring theme: messages sent outside usual hours have drawn clear guidance within a short space of time, and telephone enquiries are answered politely and helpfully. More than one review highlights the speed of service once an appointment is arranged, including the verification, legalisation and apostille of documents, with one client reporting that two documents were completed inside roughly ten days.

Named as Steven by some customers, the notary is described as efficient and friendly, and the pricing is called reasonable, with the cost of notarising multiple documents mentioned as good value. Effective communication before and after the work comes up often, as does the convenience of an office in the centre of Leicester. Thoroughness in handling paperwork is a point that recurs, and clients note that the service proceeds exactly as booked. Even where a reply to email took longer than expected, the impression remains one of a helpful and professional service.