Urgent Legal exec / commissioner of oaths Bristol?

[V8S]

Hi all.

Not sure exactly where to post this but we've been let down by a Bristol commissioner of oaths for an appointment next Thursday.

Need a commissioner of oaths to sign off on a parental affidavit, and certify some birth certs.

Anyone here able to help / knows someone who can help out a fellow PHer?

Favours returned where possible!

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Surely a lot of your local solicitors (Notary publics)will be able to do this?

IIRC my Solictor charges a fiver for notarising stuff.

[V8S]

Appointment moved luckily, which hopefully will stick.

We've not found another solicitor that'll do it for £5 each, which is why we panicked. Others wanted about £300.

[Ozzie Osmond]

"Notarisation" is usually a LOT more expensive than a simple "Swearing". The fee tends to vary according to which country the Notarised document is needed for.

To get anything Notarised for £5 is a pretty good trick.

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Maybe we're discussing apples and pears...

The kind of stuff I've had "signed off" by a Solicitor as "genuine copies" has been documents for passport applications, birth certificates, death certificates. These were all £5 each, by our family solicitor.

Possibly there are different levels of Notarisation that I'm not aware of?

[Ozzie Osmond]

Yes, I think I probably drifted off topic with that one. OP seems to be about normal UK documents where a few quid should cover it.

There is another level of process which is superficially similar but gets full international recognition and is done by Notaries.

[Actus Reus]

Hello - I am a notary (in London I'm afraid), and it sounds to me like what you might have is travel documents to South Africa? If so you MUST see a notary and NOT a commissioner of oaths, as the docs refer to South African Commissioners, not English and they are different.

As said above notarisation is a totally different process, with totally different rules - it's therefore far more expensive. Feel free to PM me, OP, if it's helpful.