Our public education drive has been largely facilitated by island-wide seminars hosted by Attorneys employed to the Agency and the distribution of) brochures and pamphlets, as well as Will Forms to assist the clients in putting the advice they receive into practice.

Realizing that the average cost of accessing legal services can be quite prohibitive, all our public relations activities are offered and done free of cost.

In addition to our usual seminars, we have, since February of this year, staged two (2) Legal Fairs geared towards reaching a larger target audience, while offering free drafting of Wills on spot, among other services. The first such fair was staged in Kingston, and the other in Spanish Town. The response to this ‘new’ product of the Agency has been overwhelming. Plans are in the pipeline for the staging of at least three (3) more Fairs before the end of the current financial year. Discussions are far advanced with the Police department who constitute a significant number of the estates we presently administer, to stage a fair exclusively for them at the site of the Police Academy. We are looking too at hosting a fair for our fellow civil servants, who quite understandably are finding it increasingly difficult to access private legal services. Our objective is to partner with each other to assist each other. Our intention with respect the range of services to be offered, is to get sister agencies on board for these events, so that our customers can avail themselves of all or most related services all in one location.

Other plans include our “Office for a Day”, which seeks to relieve some of our more rural clients of having to travel into Kingston by our taking the office to them. This initiative was conceptualized in light of the fact that the Agency does not have the regional or affiliated offices, so clients are left with little or no option at present but to take a trip into Kingston to access our services. The first parish/region to benefit from this event will be Montego Bay/Western Jamaica. The event is to be staged over two days on the 29th and 30th of September 2005, and will see Attorneys and Paralegals assisting existing clients with information and processing of their administration matters with the department, as well as accepting documents from potential new clients. We plan to replicate this event throughout the Island during and beyond this financial year.