| A film buff might be aware of this exchange between | | | | solicitors, in fact breaking the strangle hold of the |
| Ransom Stoddard and Maxwell Scott in the 1962 | | | | solicitors on conveyancing and will writing and |
| movie The Man Who Shot Liberty Vallance: 'you're not | | | | respectively. Industry bodies such as the Institute of |
| going to use the story, Mr Scott?' To which the retort | | | | Professional Will Writers and the Society of Will |
| from Maxwell Scott the newspaper editor was 'No, sir, | | | | Writers are at the forefront of devising regulation for |
| this is the west sir. When the legend becomes fact, | | | | the profession. Solicitors have an interest in bashing will |
| print the legend'. | | | | writers. Will writers are much cheaper than solicitors. |
| As we are a specialist will writing firm, we saw the | | | | The second point at issue is that the TV show made |
| Panorama show. It was good entertainment; it's not for | | | | great play of the promotional method used by some |
| me to question the quality of the journalism. There are | | | | will writing firms of offering a very cheap will as a 'foot |
| certain points to be made. A few crooks were | | | | in the door' to sell more expensive services - this is a |
| exposed. Bad apples exist in this industry as they do in | | | | 'loss leader' or 'introductory offer' - a basic marketing |
| every other. There is need for greater regulation. | | | | technique taught all over the world from your local |
| Say no more about the firm Willmakers of Distinction - | | | | comprehensive economics class to Harvard Business |
| the criminality involved was clear to see - the prison | | | | School and practiced in every industry. I do not seek to |
| sentences are eloquence enough. Harold Shipman | | | | provide a refuge for high pressure sales tactics or |
| existed - it was a real tragedy for every one of his | | | | dishonest sales methods. Most reasonable people |
| victims and their families, but Shipman does not make | | | | would not object in a point of sale demonstration or |
| every family doctor a murderer. Fred West did not | | | | illustration as long as it was clear, open truth full and |
| make every builder struggling or prosperous a | | | | honest - and it was not seeking to provide a solution to |
| psychopathic killer. Long ago, colleague of mine | | | | a problem that did not exist. |
| represented a nursery school teacher in court - the | | | | Why is the incidence of mumps, measles and rubella |
| teacher was charged with stealing earrings from her | | | | higher in this country than it should otherwise have |
| pupils. This teacher as poor as an example of her | | | | been? A certain doctor created a scare story |
| profession and vocation, she was did not deter the | | | | regarding a link between the vaccine and autism - |
| good folk of this nation from sending their children to | | | | parents believed him, vaccination rates fell, and we |
| school. The firm Willmakers of Distinction in its wilful | | | | have far more sick children - a poor outcome for the |
| criminality fails to represent the whole industry. | | | | kids, their families and the nation as a whole. It can only |
| There are 2 main points at which the journalism is | | | | be hoped that the incidence of intestacy did not |
| weak - on the whole like conveyancers, will writers do | | | | increase because people were scared off making a |
| a decent job for the client, the specialism and the | | | | will on account of this piece of journalism. |
| shorter training times involved create completion for | | | | |