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Submit our Notary Public enquiry form and one of our staff will shortly get in contact to start the process and answer any question you may have.
Our notary public services are dedicated to ensuring your documents whether for Australian or international purposes are vetted and notarised giving you the peace of mind that they will fulfil their intended purpose.

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The Process of Notarising Your Documents​

Notarise your document before it is sent overseas.

Authenticate your document with the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade.​

Send the document to the relevant legal agencies and liaise with them for approval and verification.​

Why Notarise your documents with us?

Are you looking to find a notary public or searching where your documents can be notarised? Your nearest public notary might be able to help you. However, getting your documents notarised with us means you deal with professional legal experts who can give you superior service at, in many cases, a more affordable rate.

Frequently Asked Questions

Our fees are in alignment (or cost less) with the Notary NSW Guidelines which you can find in this page.

There’s a wide range of documents that may need to be notarised for national or international (mainly) purposes. These include trusts, estates, loan documents, commercial and real estate contracts such as land conveyance, powers of attorney, licenses and deeds. If you are unsure if your document needs to be notarised or what’s needed for it to be authenticated, get in touch and we’ll be able to help you.

A Notary typically has more duties than a JP (Justice of Peace) as they are have their very own seals or stamps to be used in Australian and internationally. 

Notary services relating to acts of verification include:

  1. Verifying a person’s identity by witnessing a signature or fingerprints
  2. Authenticating documents for international and national purposes
  3. Certifying documents such as wills, deeds, powers of attorney, contracts and other documents of a similar nature for use normally associated with international activity.
  4. Verifying certificates of law to be used in overseas courts
  5. Noting and if needed, protesting of bills of exchange
An Australian Notary Public or sometimes called Public Notary, or Notary, is essentially a public officer, with years of experience and practice in other legal disciplines such as a practising solicitor or attorney, who is appointed and accredited by the State or Territory Supreme Court and provided with statutory powers to witness documents, administer oaths, and carry out other administrative functions that may be of national and or international nature.

If you are residing in New South Wales, there are mainly two kinds of public officers who have the authority to help you legitimise your documents including confirming your identity and witnessing legal and binding documents.
The more widely common type is what is referred to as the Justice of the Peace.

A Justice of the Peace (JP) is quite helpful for tasks such as your identity confirmation (in certain cases), certifying true copies of original documents or witnessing statutory declarations. 

However, there are many important cases where JP’s help would not suffice. That’s when a Public Notary is extremely important. A public notary is typically needed for more critical forms of legal verification.

Not everyone can be or is a Public Notary. To become a Public Notary, a lawyer must

  1. Be appointed by the Supreme Court
  2. Have completed 5 years of legal practice
  3. Complete the required Notarial Practice Course
  4. Apply through the Legal Profession Admission Board
If need to notarise documents that are going to be used outside Australia, a Notary Public must understand the process required for your documents to be fully validated. The process can require a few steps which may also be dependant on what country the document needs to be verified for.
If you get in touch with us over the phone, we can provide an indicative quote, however, a final quote would be subject to us assessing the documents to be notarised and a clear understanding of what the document is intended for, where it is going to be used.
Your document can be in any language and especially the language of the country it is intended for.
We currently do not notarise electronic documents. Your notarised document needs to be in physical form, and you must bring those documents with you. This is to ensure compliance with the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade guidelines at this point in time.
We currently do not notarise electronic documents. Your notarised document needs to be in physical form, and you must bring those documents with you. This is to ensure compliance with the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade guidelines at this point in time.

No, but you may bring your own copies if you wish. If you do not bring copies with you, we will copy the most original documents in our office at no additional cost – given that your documents or no larger than A4 format. If your documents are larger than an A4 paper, you will need to bring your own copies with you.

In order to notarise it, your document will need to be signed and witnessed in front of our notary public. We don’t notarise documents that have been signed or witnessed prior to coming to us.

Generally, we will provide you fixed fee for our notary services. In addition to the fee for our notary public services, the quote may include fees associated with travel, postage fees, filing fees and other out of pocket expenses that we may incur on your behalf. The fixed fee quote will cover all the fees needed to ensure you have certainty and avoid unexpected surprises or additional costs.

There are a few offices that can notarise your documents but to ensure you get the right help, you need find out all the documents they will require and how quick will the process take. A phone call or an email can save you time and effort.

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We are conveniently located in close proximity to the Bondi Junction shops. We are able to handle all stages of document legalisation and offer a cost-effective, professional and efficient public notary service. To schedule a free consulation click the link below.
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Barry Lazarus

CEO & Notary Public

barry@lazaruslegal.com.au 

We’d be lying if we told you that this bloke isn’t the big honcho of our team, but his name is a dead give-away. The founder of Lazarus Legal, Barry is an old school, tough as nails lawyer. They don’t forge litigators like this anymore.

With decades of experience in both Australia and South Africa, his wisdom is as renowned as his name. Back in the days when Schwarzenegger and Van Damme were kicking ass on VHS, Barry was kicking ass in the courtroom. And after all these years, he still has a reputation for refusing to back down.Barry is definitely the badass you’d want in a fight – in court or otherwise. But really, he’s a big softie. Just don’t let him know you know that (although he probably won’t read this anyway – navigating the Internet is not his strong point).

Aside from putting other lawyers in their place, taking long walks on the beach and spending time with his family, Barry enjoys seeing others succeed. Not only is Barry a staunch and unmoving litigator, he has sharp business and commercial acumen having started up ventures from scratch and growing them into full-blown franchises – from real estate to creating ice cream, to making pasta. With his experience on both sides of the commercial and legal equation, you want this guy to be on your side, whether you’re the next Zuckerberg realising your genius, or the next Zuckerberg taking on your opponents in court.

When Barry is not busy lawyering about, he is a part-time lawn bowler and a wannabe comedian, but never took both as a day job, because let’s face it, he’s a lot better at his day job.

If someone ever threatens you to lawyer up…relax, call Barry and he’ll handle the rest. 

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Mark Lazarus

Director

mark@lazaruslegal.com.au 

The visionary behind the business and the fresh blood of the Lazarus Legal team, Mark (or Laz as he is often known) owes much of his success to his past stories and experiences. And he’s made it his personal goal to bring that wisdom and formula to the firm.

He’s a bit of jet setter, splitting his time between Australia and the UK, maximising every hour of his professional life. He thrives on this adrenalin. It allowed him to work in private practice in Sydney, act for a host of famous celebrities in London, do a two year stint as a NSW barrister (and not the pretentious coffee type in the Melbourne laneways) and more recently did a gig as the Legal Director covering Europe, the Middle East and Africa for one of the world’s coolest fast-moving consumer good brands!  

As an Aussie and UK lawyer and former barrister, Mark not only has the gift of the gab but he’ll walk the walk to prove it too. He likes to think he’s a bit like Harvey Specter or Michael Corleone, the main difference is you can actually retain him as your lawyer and consigliere. He’ll tell you how it really is and will take on any challenge head on. Although litigation and court advocacy comes naturally to him, commercial and IP is what gets his blood pumping! 

When Mark is not out there doing his thing, you will probably catch him chilling at home with his family, on the sidelines of the soccer (football) pitch cheering on his two boys, crawling through mud obstacles, or training hard at the gym. Passion and commitment is what drives Mark to succeed, along with his burning desire to disrupt the legal profession by finding new ways to change the game.

He has sights on the future. So if you’re breaking new ground, ahead of the times, and on the verge of something big, but you need someone who’s got your back and who can give you straight up advice, this is the guy you will want on speed dial.

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