About Us

Elaine J Standish & Co was established in 1997 by Elaine Standish to provide the general services of a Notary Public and, in particular, to provide specialised advice in the field of Spanish law.

Elaine Standish gained an Honours degree in Spanish from Durham University and has studied at the University of Navarre and the University of Granada. She sat the Common Professional Examination and qualified as a solicitor in November 1993 and was admitted as a Notary Public four months later in 1994. She worked for four years with Staffurth & Bray, a firm of Solicitors and Notaries Public in West Sussex, taking the decision to start her own firm in 1997. She practised as a solicitor and notary public until 2004 when she ceased to practise as a solicitor in order to devote her time to her notarial practice.

In addition to her private practice she takes a keen interest in the education and qualification of student notaries and was, for a number of years, a tutor and marker for the Notarial Practice Post Graduation Diploma Course at the University of Cambridge. She regularly lectures on Spanish notarial matters and Spanish documents and powers of attorney to newly qualified notaries as well as running similar courses for the Continuing Professional Education of all notaries in England and Wales. She has written articles on various aspects of Spanish notarial practice and is an active member of The Notaries Society, becoming a council member of the Society in 2007. In addition to her involvement with the Society, she serves on the Qualifications Board and the Master’s Advisory Board at the Faculty Office of the Archbishop of Canterbury which regulates all notaries in England and Wales.

Elaine Standish is also a member of the Institute of Linguists, the English representative for the Spanish international legal network Bufetes HGC, and collaborates closely with a number of prestigious legal firms throughout mainland Spain and the Spanish islands.