Electronic witnessing solution allowing remote execution of Wills, thereby increasing Wills accessibility during a pandemic and going forward.

新冠肺炎推动了英国有史以来对遗嘱需求的最大增长([法律-社会-公报-3月20日][0])。所有的人口都担心他们的健康，担心他们的家庭福祉和经济安全，同时考虑如果发生最坏的情况会带来的法律和经济后果。此外，C.40%的55岁以上的英国人没有遗嘱(2017年无偏见)，这主要是因为涉及手动(非数字)管理麻烦。在撰写或更新遗嘱时，每个人都可以受益于适当的法律建议，超过70%的人(法律-社会-公报-2020)使用受监管的律师来帮助撰写和执行遗嘱。英国法规规定，律师在提供建议之前必须核实一个人的身份(以避免欺诈性的资产索赔)，遗嘱必须由两个人签署和见证。这些过程通常是与律师面对面进行的，但在大流行期间，当社会距离和封锁规则到位时，这是根本不可能的。更糟糕的是，处于最大风险和从事庇护工作的弱势群体很可能是最需要遗嘱的人。英国政府正确地将遗嘱律师归类为“基本工作人员”，但他们无法进行这项基本工作。一些Thirdfort客户律师事务所通过要求越过花园栅栏作证来勉强度日，但由于没有电子解决方案，律师们正在诉诸各种危险和繁琐的变通办法。Thirdfort的另一位客户开车到客户那里，用一个凉亭作为临时办公室，进行身份检查和签字/见证。如果委托人独自居住，律师必须与委托人的另一名家庭成员一起前往委托人的财产，作为第二证人。如果律师独自生活，寻找第二个证人就变得更加困难。这些解决办法速度慢、成本高，而且可能是致命的，因为它会使易受攻击的客户和关键员工接触新冠肺炎。Thirdfort正在构建一个远程ID检查和电子签名/见证移动应用程序，允许任何拥有智能手机的个人撰写和签署他们的遗嘱，同时获得必要的法律建议。该解决方案建立在我们现有的移动应用程序的支持下，该应用程序解决了房地产法律市场中的类似问题。我们将向遗嘱律师销售该产品，他们将能够结合使用它，通过电话/视频会议提供法律建议，以提供完全远程的遗嘱服务。然后，这种新的远程服务可以承受大流行后的影响，升级目前执行遗嘱的陈旧、低效和潜在的不安全方式。[0]：https://www.lawgazette.co.uk/news/coronavirus-demand-for-wills-jumps-by-76/5103703.article

Covid-19 has driven the largest increase in the demand for Wills the UK has ever seen ([Law-Society-Gazette-March-20][0]). All demographics are scared about their health, worried for their family's wellbeing and financial security, whilst thinking about the legal and financial ramifications if the worst was to happen. In addition, c.40% of UK over 55 year-olds do not have a Will (Unbiased-2017), largely due to the manual (non-digital) administrative hassle involved.When writing or updating a Will, everyone could benefit from proper legal advice and over 70% (Law-Society-Gazette-2020) of people use a regulated lawyer to help write and execute Wills. UK regulations mean that lawyers must verify a person's ID (to avoid fraudulent claims over assets) before giving advice and a Will must be signed and witnessed by two individuals. These processes typically happen face-to-face with a lawyer, but this is simply not possible during a pandemic, when social distancing and lockdown rules are in place. Worse still, vulnerable individuals who are most at risk and practising shielding are likely to be the most in need of a Will.The UK government has rightly classified Wills lawyers as 'essential workers', however they cannot carry out this essential work. Some Thirdfort client law firms get by via requiring witnessing over garden fences, but with no electronic solution, lawyers are resorting to all kinds of dangerous and cumbersome workarounds. Another Thirdfort client drives to clients with a gazebo to use as a makeshift office to conduct ID-checks and signing/witnessing. If the client lives alone, the lawyer must travel to the client's property with another member of their own household to act as the second witness. If the lawyer lives alone, finding a second Witness becomes even harder. These workarounds are slow, costly and potentially lethal, as it exposes vulnerable clients and essential-workers to Covid-19\.Thirdfort is building a remote ID-checking and E-signing/witnessing mobile-app to allow any individual with a smartphone to write and sign their Will, whilst getting the necessary legal advice. The solution is built on the back of our existing mobile-app which tackles equivalent problems in the property legal market. We will sell the product to Wills-lawyers who will be able to use it in combination with offering legal advice over telephone/video-conference to offer a fully remote Wills service. This new remote offering can then endure post-pandemic, upgrading the archaic, inefficient and potentially insecure way Wills are currently executed.[0]: https://www.lawgazette.co.uk/news/coronavirus-demand-for-wills-jumps-by-76/5103703.article