CO-OPERATIVE LEGAL SERVICES LIMITED
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Next accounts due
2026-10-04 (in 5mo)
Last filed for 2025-01-04
Confirmation statement due
2026-08-14 (in 3mo)
Last made up 2025-07-31
Watchouts
None on the register
Cash
£45M
+18.3% vs 2024
Net assets
£45M
-15.6% vs 2024
Employees
689
+14.3% vs 2024
Profit before tax
£23M
+30.5% vs 2024
Name history
Renamed 1 time since incorporation
- CO-OPERATIVE LEGAL SERVICES LIMITED 2006-04-13 → present
- HAMSARD 2974 LIMITED 2006-01-10 → 2006-04-13
Net assets
2-year trend · vs Industrials median
Accounts
2-year trend · latest reflected 2025-01-04
| Metric | Trend | 2024-01-06 | 2025-01-04 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Turnover | £68,127,000 | £83,866,000 | |
| Operating profit | £17,311,000 | £21,828,000 | |
| Profit before tax | £17,864,000 | £23,316,000 | |
| Net profit | £13,824,000 | £17,617,000 | |
| Cash | £37,783,000 | £44,682,000 | |
| Total assets less current liabilities | £56,097,000 | £47,474,000 | |
| Net assets | £53,779,000 | £45,396,000 | |
| Equity | £53,779,000 | £45,396,000 | |
| Average employees | 603 | 689 | |
| Wages | £21,686,000 | £24,748,000 |
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 | 2024-01-06 | 2025-01-04 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Operating margin | 25.4% | 26.0% | |
| Net margin | 20.3% | 21.0% | |
| Return on capital employed | 30.9% | 46.0% | |
| Gearing (liabilities / total assets) | 38.4% | 51.1% | |
| Current ratio | 2.33x | 1.71x | |
| Interest cover | 139.60x | 196.65x |
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 101
- Reporting scope
- Standalone (parent only)
- Abridged
- Yes — abridged accounts (limited disclosure)
- Auditor
- Ernst & Young LLP
- Audit opinion
- Unqualified (clean)
- Going concern
- Affirmed
“Based on all of the above considerations, the Directors of the Company have a reasonable expectation that the Company and the Group have access to adequate resources to enable them to continue in operational existence for the foreseeable future, being the period to 31 December 2026. For this reason, they continue to adopt the going concern basis in preparing the Company's financial statements.”
Group structure
- CO-OPERATIVE LEGAL SERVICES LIMITED · parent
- Dovedon Limited 100%
- CLS Probate Limited 100%
- Independent Trust Corporation Limited 100%
- Chorus Law Limited 100%
Significant events
- “At the end of April 2025, the Company's ultimate parent undertaking The Co-operative Group (the Group) announced that the Group had been managing a targeted cyber attack. The incident has been treated as a non-adjusting post-balance sheet event and there has been no impact on the financial results reported for the Company for the period ended 4 January 2025.”
Auditor, going-concern and subsidiary information is drawn from the narrative of the latest annual accounts. About these numbers
People
5 active · 37 resigned
| Name | Role | Appointed | Born | Nationality |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| AGRIA, Flavia | Secretary | 2025-05-27 | — | — |
| HURLEY, Caoilionn | Director | 2014-05-23 | Sep 1965 | Irish |
| KENDAL-WARD, Dominic Adam | Director | 2022-05-23 | Apr 1980 | British |
| MARTIN, Steven Richard | Director | 2020-04-29 | Aug 1970 | British |
| MORRIS, James Edward | Director | 2019-07-11 | May 1980 | British |
Show 37 resigned officers
| Name | Role | Appointed | Resigned |
|---|---|---|---|
| DALTON, Claire Louise | Secretary | 2019-07-11 | 2022-12-02 |
| DALTON, Claire Louise | Secretary | 2017-01-13 | 2017-10-12 |
| FOWLER, Steve | Secretary | 2017-10-12 | 2019-07-11 |
| PARRY, Stephen | Secretary | 2010-07-05 | 2011-03-25 |
| SELLERS, Caroline Jane | Secretary | 2022-12-02 | 2023-10-09 |
| SELLERS, Caroline Jane | Secretary | 2006-04-13 | 2015-10-21 |
| SIDAT, Yasmin | Secretary | 2023-10-09 | 2025-05-27 |
| WOOD, Hollie Rheanna | Secretary | 2015-10-21 | 2017-01-04 |
| HAMMONDS SECRETARIES LIMITED | Corporate Nominee Secretary | 2006-01-10 | 2006-04-13 |
| ASHER, Alistair Hugh | Director | 2013-11-22 | 2018-05-31 |
| BATES, Jane Elisabeth | Director | 2019-11-19 | 2020-12-18 |
| BLACKLAWS, Christina | Director | 2011-12-08 | 2014-03-31 |
| BRAITHWAITE, Neil | Director | 2007-07-30 | 2011-06-30 |
| BULMER, Rodney Jensen | Director | 2015-10-21 | 2017-05-23 |
| BULMER, Rodney Jensen | Director | 2011-09-08 | 2013-10-04 |
| CLOSE, Alison Joanne | Director | 2017-05-23 | 2019-07-09 |
| DIMBYLOW, Emma Kate | Director | 2018-01-17 | 2019-10-01 |
| GRANTHAM, Helen | Director | 2018-07-04 | 2022-05-23 |
| GULLIFORD, Jonathan | Director | 2006-03-24 | 2011-11-29 |
| HEWITT, Paul William | Director | 2006-04-13 | 2007-07-30 |
| HOWELLS, Matthew Ian | Director | 2014-04-01 | 2019-05-01 |
| LABADIE, Robert Michael Gaston | Director | 2006-09-14 | 2013-11-29 |
| LANCASTER, Richard | Director | 2017-05-23 | 2017-06-30 |
| LOCK, Charlotte | Director | 2021-03-15 | 2022-01-28 |
| LOCK, Timothy Stuart | Director | 2006-03-24 | 2012-08-07 |
| MACKIE, Ian David, Managing Director | Director | 2008-01-30 | 2014-05-30 |
| NEAVE, David Stanley | Director | 2006-04-13 | 2011-09-08 |
| PANNONE, Rodger | Director | 2006-04-25 | 2014-05-31 |
| RIGBY, Jacqueline Susan, Dr | Director | 2011-09-08 | 2014-07-31 |
| ROBERTS, Stuart Anthony | Director | 2020-01-14 | 2021-02-15 |
| ROUND, Steven Robert | Director | 2012-09-19 | 2014-03-31 |
| RYAN, Edward Thomas | Director | 2006-03-24 | 2012-07-13 |
| SPENCER, Ruth Emma | Director | 2006-04-13 | 2008-01-11 |
| TUNMORE, Susan Claire | Director | 2021-03-22 | 2022-09-16 |
| WALKER, Neil James | Director | 2011-09-08 | 2014-06-30 |
| WATES, Martyn James | Director | 2011-07-15 | 2013-06-05 |
| HAMMONDS DIRECTORS LIMITED | Corporate Nominee Director | 2006-01-10 | 2006-03-24 |
Ownership
Persons with significant control
Filing timeline
Last 20 of 167 total filings
| Date | Type | Category | Description | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025-07-31 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2025-07-22 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2025-05-28 | AP03 | officers | Appoint person secretary company with name date | |
| 2025-05-28 | TM02 | officers | Termination secretary company with name termination date | |
| 2024-08-06 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2024-07-15 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2023-10-18 | AP03 | officers | Appoint person secretary company with name date | |
| 2023-10-18 | TM02 | officers | Termination secretary company with name termination date | |
| 2023-08-22 | CH01 | officers | Change person director company with change date | |
| 2023-08-03 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2023-07-17 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2023-06-12 | CH01 | officers | Change person director company with change date | |
| 2022-12-05 | TM02 | officers | Termination secretary company with name termination date | |
| 2022-12-05 | AP03 | officers | Appoint person secretary company with name date | |
| 2022-09-22 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2022-08-03 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2022-07-14 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2022-06-14 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2022-06-13 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2022-01-31 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date |
Public-record activity
Raw counts from Companies House — last 12–24 months
- Filings
- 4
- Capital events
- 0
- Officers appointed
- 1
- Officers resigned
- 1
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
FY2024 → FY2025 · period ending 2025-01-04 vs 2024-01-06
-
Turnover
+23.1%
£68,127,000 £83,866,000
-
Cash
+18.3%
£37,783,000 £44,682,000
-
Net assets
-15.6%
£53,779,000 £45,396,000
-
Employees
+14.3%
603 689
-
Operating profit
+26.1%
£17,311,000 £21,828,000
-
Profit before tax
+30.5%
£17,864,000 £23,316,000
-
Wages
+14.1%
£21,686,000 £24,748,000
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