Commentary on Sections Part 3 – Confirmation and Will Writing Services Chapter 1 – Confirmation Services
188.Currently, the power to prepare papers on which to found or oppose an application for grant of confirmation in favour of executors, in the winding up of a deceased person’s estate, is restricted to solicitors, by virtue of section 32 of the 1980 Act. However it is possible for others to seek to be granted such rights by virtue of an application for the right to conduct litigation and have a right of audience by virtue of section 27 of the 1990 Act. Part 3, Chapter 1 of this Act provides a more direct route by which other professional groups (such as accountants) might be authorised to deal with executries, without seeking a wider power to conduct litigation.