LAW BUSINESS RESEARCH LIMITED
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Next accounts due
2026-09-30 (in 4mo)
Last filed for 2024-12-31
Confirmation statement due
2026-12-05 (in 7mo)
Last made up 2025-11-21
Watchouts
None on the register
Cash
£4M
+28.5% vs 2023
Net assets
£36M
-25.1% vs 2023
Employees
423
+0.2% vs 2023
Profit before tax
-£12M
-11,655.2% vs 2023
Net assets
2-year trend · vs Industrials median
Accounts
2-year trend · latest reflected 2024-12-31
| Metric | Trend | 2023-12-31 | 2024-12-31 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Turnover | £39,429,460 | £43,389,808 | |
| Operating profit | £3,327,218 | -£9,526,303 | |
| Profit before tax | £106,242 | -£12,276,513 | |
| Net profit | £89,436 | -£12,153,425 | |
| Cash | £3,174,702 | £4,079,040 | |
| Total assets less current liabilities | £48,471,556 | £36,188,855 | |
| Net assets | £48,342,280 | £36,188,855 | |
| Equity | £48,342,280 | £36,188,855 | |
| Average employees | 422 | 423 | |
| Wages | £20,203,696 | £25,822,145 |
Values shown as filed in the company's annual accounts. — indicates the figure wasn't present under that line item in that period. About these numbers
Ratios
Computed from the line items above — sparklines read oldest → newest
| Ratio | Trend | 2023-12-31 | 2024-12-31 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Operating margin | 8.4% | -22.0% | |
| Net margin | 0.2% | -28.0% | |
| Return on capital employed | 6.9% | -26.3% | |
| Current ratio | 0.51x | 0.43x | |
| Interest cover | 1.01x | -3.17x |
Margins divide P&L lines by turnover. Gearing is liabilities over total assets. Current ratio is current assets over creditors falling due within one year. Interest cover is operating profit over absolute finance costs. Sector-distribution context coming next.
Audit & accounting basis
- Accounting basis
- FRS 102
- Reporting scope
- Standalone (parent only)
- Auditor
- Grant Thornton UK LLP
- Audit opinion
- Unqualified (clean)
- Going concern
- Affirmed
“Management has performed a going concern assessment for a period of not less than 12 months from the date of approval of these financial statements, which indicates that the group will have sufficient resources to trade and settle its liabilities as they fall due. The directors have at the time of approving the financial statements, a reasonable expectation that the group has adequate resources to continue in operational existence for the foreseeable future.”
Group structure
- LAW BUSINESS RESEARCH LIMITED · parent
- Worldwide Legal Research Limited 100%
- MBL (Seminars) Ltd 100%
- Law Business Research Inc 100%
- Law Business Research (Asia) Limited 100%
- Law Business Research LLC 100%
- Hopkins Bruce Publishers LLC 100%
Significant events
- “On the 30th of April 2025 one ordinary share was allotted bring the total Ordinary Shares allotted to 2,678,272.”
Auditor, going-concern and subsidiary information is drawn from the narrative of the latest annual accounts. About these numbers
People
2 active · 9 resigned
| Name | Role | Appointed | Born | Nationality |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| BRAILEY, Nicholas James | Director | 2019-07-16 | Dec 1980 | British |
| BROOKS, Alastair David | Director | 2024-12-09 | Mar 1979 | British |
Show 9 resigned officers
| Name | Role | Appointed | Resigned |
|---|---|---|---|
| DAVEY, Rachel Narowlansky | Secretary | 1996-11-21 | 2013-02-06 |
| SWIFT INCORPORATIONS LIMITED | Corporate Nominee Secretary | 1996-11-21 | 1996-11-21 |
| BRUCE-MORGAN, Torsten Morris Tomas | Director | 2017-05-16 | 2022-09-28 |
| CAMPBELL, Callum Sean | Director | 2004-02-26 | 2013-02-06 |
| DAVEY, Richard Ashmore | Director | 1996-11-21 | 2016-01-01 |
| HOWARTH, Paul William Louis | Director | 2016-04-22 | 2019-07-16 |
| IND, Charles Thomas Messiter | Director | 2013-02-06 | 2017-12-22 |
| MASTERS, Julian James Lawrence | Director | 2013-02-06 | 2017-12-22 |
| PAPE, Claire Margaret | Director | 2022-09-28 | 2024-12-09 |
Ownership
Persons with significant control
| Name | Kind | Nature of control | Notified | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Lbr Uk Bidco Limited | Corporate entity | Shares 75–100% | 2020-04-01 | Active |
| Lbr3 Ltd | Corporate entity | Shares 75–100%, Voting 75–100% | 2016-04-06 | Ceased 2021-12-16 |
| Bowmark Capital Llp | Corporate entity | Appoints directors | 2016-04-06 | Ceased 2017-12-22 |
Filing timeline
Last 20 of 133 total filings
| Date | Type | Category | Description | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025-12-03 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with updates | |
| 2025-10-23 | SH01 | capital | Capital allotment shares | |
| 2025-09-22 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2025-05-09 | SH01 | capital | Capital allotment shares | |
| 2024-12-20 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2024-12-17 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2024-12-11 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2024-12-11 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2024-11-15 | MR01 | mortgage | Mortgage create with deed with charge number charge creation date | |
| 2024-11-15 | MR01 | mortgage | Mortgage create with deed with charge number charge creation date | |
| 2024-11-13 | MR04 | mortgage | Mortgage satisfy charge full | |
| 2024-11-13 | MR04 | mortgage | Mortgage satisfy charge full | |
| 2024-11-13 | MR04 | mortgage | Mortgage satisfy charge full | |
| 2024-11-13 | MR04 | mortgage | Mortgage satisfy charge full | |
| 2024-11-13 | MR04 | mortgage | Mortgage satisfy charge full | |
| 2024-11-13 | MR04 | mortgage | Mortgage satisfy charge full | |
| 2023-12-07 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2023-09-22 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2023-06-29 | MR01 | mortgage | Mortgage create with deed with charge number charge creation date | |
| 2023-04-17 | PSC05 | persons-with-significant-control | Change to a person with significant control |
Public-record activity
Raw counts from Companies House — last 12–24 months
- Filings
- 4
- Capital events
- 2
- Officers appointed
- 0
- Officers resigned
- 0
last 12 months
last 24 months
last 12 months
last 12 months
Direct counts from the register. No score, no rating — see the Filing timeline for the underlying events.
Year-on-year
FY2023 → FY2024 · period ending 2024-12-31 vs 2023-12-31
-
Turnover
+10%
£39,429,460 £43,389,808
-
Cash
+28.5%
£3,174,702 £4,079,040
-
Net assets
-25.1%
£48,342,280 £36,188,855
-
Employees
+0.2%
422 423
-
Operating profit
-386.3%
£3,327,218 -£9,526,303
-
Profit before tax
-11,655.2%
£106,242 -£12,276,513
-
Wages
+27.8%
£20,203,696 £25,822,145
Each % is (latest − prior) ÷ |prior| for the line item as filed. The comparison is only shown when the latest and prior accounts cover broadly equal-length periods — short or long stubs (typical around incorporation or a year-end change) are suppressed rather than misrepresented. Lines a company doesn't report are omitted. About these numbers