Current Articles
Notary World is the title to an e-zine published by the WON. These articles are
offered for publication by volunteer practitioners scattered around the globe and
edited by Barry Holland in the UK.
Message from the Inaugural President Ken Sherk
Membership in WON helps to raise profiles, to generate additional work and income, and to facilitate communication with and learning from other Notaries in Common Law jurisdictions I would like to take this opportunity, to thank my fellow past and present Executive...
read moreTransnational Cases affecting Legal Status of Notaries
The Most Significant Transnational Cases in History affecting the Legal Status of the Notary by Dr Eamonn G Hall, Notary Public Introduction Since the inception of the European Community and until the 2011 decisions of the Court of Justice in the Notary Cases, the...
read moreThe Certification of Educational Documents: The Apostille and the Notary by Dr Eamonn G Hall
Introduction Serious concern has been articulated nationally and internationally about fraudulent activities arising out of the certification of education diplomas and education-related certificates. A certification may be carried out by a notary, for example, who has...
read moreAn Introduction to the Civil Law by Professor Peter Zablud, AM, RFD
A legal tradition … is a set of deeply rooted, historically conditioned attitudes about the nature of law, about the role of law in the society and the polity, about the proper organization of a legal system, and about the way law is or should be made, applied,...
read moreA comparison of the origins and the histories of Notarial Professions in France and England and Wales
Recently, I was very interested to read a feature on the History of French Notaries on the Notaires de France website and then to compare their origins and history with ours. The same must be read in the light of the relationship between France and England between the...
read moreThe Influence of Roman law on European (particularly English) law by J. A. Fisher
Roughly 2/3rds of the world live under a civil law system and 1/3rd under the English common law system. To put it another way, of the 320 or so jurisdictions in the modern world, at least 280 stem from one of these ideologies to a greater or lesser extent. As a rule...
read moreThe Striking Off of a Notary for Just Cause by Dr Eamonn G Hall
1.Introduction and Legislative Power of Appointment of Notaries Public This short article submits that the Chief Justice of Ireland (the appointing authority of notaries public in Ireland) has an inherent jurisdiction to strike a notary public off the roll of...
read moreA Notary Should Always Be Vigilant
I am the current President of the New Zealand Society of Notaries and was appointed a Notary Public in 1989. During the past 5 years or so I have noticed the incidence of fraud on the increase, both as a solicitor in New Zealand but also as a Notary Public. ...
read moreNotaries Public in New Zealand
Every now and then most lawyers come across the need to use the services of a Notary Public, perhaps even more frequently in recent years with globalisation, and a greater need to detect fraudulent behaviour. This article will, after briefly describing the role of the New Zealand Notary, focus on two core aspects of the work of a Notary perhaps most often used, being the witnessing of signatures and identification issues and the authentication of documents, with a final word about international succession law.
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