The curious case of ... the certifiable certification

Tony Bridgland, Insurance Age's Perry Mason, investigates the civil service's new ban on photocopying

It must be well over 25 years ago that I first took a photocopy of a certificate of birth, marriage or death, plonked my stamp on it, added a few words in the margin in longhand plus my signature to certify its authenticity and bunged it off to an insurance company for whatever purpose. I estimate that I must have done this on well over a thousand occasions since then - as have thousands of people like me. No insurance company ever used to question the practice.

So when an irate broker came on

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