A shortage of up to 30 per cent of justices of the peace has prompted a recruitment drive to fill 800 positions to end the acute difficulty many people are facing in getting urgent legal documents signed. | ViscountBrooky
A shortage of up to 30 per cent of justices of the peace has prompted a recruitment drive to fill 800 positions to end the acute difficulty many people are facing in getting urgent legal documents signed.
Some document-signing stations in hospitals and police stations which closed during the pandemic have still not been restaffed. Even in this digital age, justices of the peace, public notaries and other legal officials need to sign about 580 different documents including witnessing personal affidavits for court cases, statutory declarations, certifying academic qualifications and visa applications and renewals.
He set up a pro bono legal service, Peter Macmillan & Associates, and tipped off security guards and receptionists at all the locations he had sought help from. Now he has assisted more than 300 clients since last December. “A lot of these people feel very lonely. The law is confusing enough anyway, and to do it all by yourself is very hard.”
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