Gibraltar notaries are appointed by the Archbishop of Canterbury of the United Kingdom. A whole series of documents will not be accepted by a foreign jurisdiction unless they have been executed before a notary or have been authenticated with a notarial certificate. Ellul & Co. provides a full range of notarial services both to private individuals, other law firms and to commercial firms engaged in international trade. Ellul & Co's services include: preparing and witnessing powers of attorney and other documents for use abroad; preparing public-form notarial acts which are usually required if a document is to take effect in a civil law jurisdiction; drawing up notarially attested translations into and from Spanish; the preparation of notarial acts in Spanish; authenticating company and business documents and transactions; dealing with the purchase or sale of land and property abroad; the completion of documentation for the registration of a company or a branch abroad; taking oaths and affirmations; drawing up ship protests in maritime matters; providing documents to deal with the administration of estates and related inheritance matters to people who are abroad; authenticating personal documents and information for private individuals such as passports, qualification certificates, marriage certificates, decrees of divorce, birth and death certificates; authenticating and certifying signatures and documents for use abroad; attesting the authenticity of deeds and documents; and authenticating all notarial certificates and documents with the Apostille or otherwise obtaining the required form of legalisation.
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