Halifax has taken the next step in its expansion into legal services by launching an online ‘pay as you go’ legal document production and advice service.

Halifax Legal Express offers customers three levels of service: ‘self-serve’ allows them to create one of a range of more than 150 documents themselves; ‘lawyer review’ involves a legal team reviewing a self-serve document; while ‘lawyer service’ means a ‘professional lawyer’ discusses a customer’s personal circumstances with them and then adapts the self-serve document accordingly.

A will for a married couple is priced at £48, £74 or £99 depending on which level is chosen.

Joel Ripley, who heads the bank’s legal operation, said Halifax had no plans to buy a law firm but would use its brand to offer a legal service provided by its panel law firms.