Post by Admin on Feb 21, 2014 8:17:32 GMT 12
This certifying of copies of documents has now become the main task for JP's as we attend clients. My statistics show that for the last four years an average of 62% of my clients required copies of documents certified. Most of these were required to accompany student loan applications and Immigration sponsorship forms. Others were for various reasons, particularly copies of passports as evidence of residency status with other copies of certificates, testimonials etc. used to accompany job applications.
Because photocopies can now be produced in colour it is becoming increasingly difficult to ascertain which are the originals and which are copies.
The other day a client produced a large number of documents with coloured copies where all the claimed copies were identical to the claimed original so I declined to do any certification.
Also clients have produced documents consisting of only black typing obviously produced on computers. These are claimed to be 'original' documents. Because of this I have followed the advice of wording my certification “Certified document presented as original sighted and this is a photocopy of that document.”
Because photocopies can now be produced in colour it is becoming increasingly difficult to ascertain which are the originals and which are copies.
The other day a client produced a large number of documents with coloured copies where all the claimed copies were identical to the claimed original so I declined to do any certification.
Also clients have produced documents consisting of only black typing obviously produced on computers. These are claimed to be 'original' documents. Because of this I have followed the advice of wording my certification “Certified document presented as original sighted and this is a photocopy of that document.”