On 8 July 2021, the Ministry of Justice (MoJ) published its open consultation which seeks views on whether to align the fees for grants of probate into a single fee that is set at cost recovery.

To quote the MoJ, the headline objectives of this proposal are threefold:

- Remove the unjustified discrepancy between fees for professional and non-professional applicants for probate. This would bring the fee structure into alignment with HM Treasury’s Managing Public Money, where all users should pay the same fee for the same service.

- Ensure that the fee recovers the cost to Her Majesty’s Courts and Tribunals ...