THOMPSONS SOLICITORS LLP
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Next accounts due
2027-01-31 (in 8mo)
Last filed for 2025-04-30
Confirmation statement due
2026-07-29 (in 2mo)
Last made up 2025-07-15
Watchouts
Cash
£3M
+20.4% vs 2024
Net assets
£10M
-14.9% vs 2024
Employees
806
+2.3% vs 2024
Profit before tax
£9M
+3.6% vs 2024
Watchouts
Facts from the Companies House register and the latest accounts — not a rating
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3 officer resignations in last 12 months
Multiple officers have left the board recently — see the People section for who.
Net assets
2-year trend · vs Unclassified median
Accounts
2-year trend · latest reflected 2025-04-30
| Metric | Trend | 2024-04-30 | 2025-04-30 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Turnover | £61,499,000 | £64,590,000 | |
| Operating profit | £9,510,000 | £9,727,000 | |
| Profit before tax | £9,033,000 | £9,356,000 | |
| Net profit | £2,706,000 | £2,745,000 | |
| Cash | £2,846,000 | £3,426,000 | |
| Total assets less current liabilities | £14,892,000 | £13,568,000 | |
| Net assets | £12,137,000 | £10,332,000 | |
| Equity | £12,137,000 | £10,332,000 | |
| Average employees | 788 | 806 | |
| Wages | £31,619,000 | £33,363,000 |
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 | 2024-04-30 | 2025-04-30 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Operating margin | 15.5% | 15.1% | |
| Net margin | 4.4% | 4.2% | |
| Return on capital employed | 63.9% | 71.7% | |
| Gearing (liabilities / total assets) | 86.4% | 89.0% | |
| Current ratio | 1.18x | 1.15x | |
| Interest cover | 5.02x | 5.09x |
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
- Consolidated group
- Auditor
- Deloitte LLP
- Audit opinion
- Unqualified (clean)
- Going concern
- Affirmed
“As such, the members are satisfied that the Group has adequate resources to continue to operate for the foreseeable future. For this reason, they continue to adopt the going concern basis for preparing these financial statements.”
Group structure
- THOMPSONS SOLICITORS LLP · parent
- BBH (Legal Services) Limited 100%
- Thompsons Trust Corporation Limited 100%
Significant events
- “The members assessed the likely impact of significant external events including the conflict in the Middle-East, Russia-Ukraine war and the impact of cost-of-living crisis, national insurance changes and inflation.”
- “In July 2024, in the case of Virgin Media vs NTL Pension Trustees II Limited (and others), the Court of Appeal upheld a 2023 ruling by the High Court that certain rules of a contracted-out defined benefit scheme cannot be altered without statutory actuarial confirmation having been obtained and that non-compliant alterations are void. Following this, on 5 June 2025, the Government announced its intention to legislate to allow retrospective actuarial confirmations to be obtained, if required.”
Auditor, going-concern and subsidiary information is drawn from the narrative of the latest annual accounts. About these numbers
People
17 active · 68 resigned
| Name | Role | Appointed | Born | Nationality |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| CRONIN, Michelle Ellen | Llp Designated Member | 2012-05-01 | Jun 1977 | — |
| HOOD, Anthony | Llp Designated Member | 2019-05-01 | Nov 1977 | — |
| MELLOR, Clare | Llp Designated Member | 2011-05-01 | Jan 1972 | — |
| HARRISON, Nicola | Llp Member | 2013-05-01 | May 1973 | — |
| HARVEY, Natalie | Llp Member | 2019-05-01 | Jul 1978 | — |
| HEMSLEY, Samantha | Llp Member | 2011-05-01 | Apr 1970 | — |
| JONES, Amanda | Llp Member | 2021-11-01 | Sep 1974 | — |
| LIPTROT, Philip William | Llp Member | 2022-05-01 | Apr 1970 | — |
| PHILLIPS, Henrietta | Llp Member | 2011-05-01 | Oct 1972 | — |
| PULL, Matthew Ray | Llp Member | 2023-05-01 | Aug 1979 | — |
| REYNOLDS, Vincent John | Llp Member | 2025-05-01 | Apr 1973 | — |
| SAUNDERS, Nicola | Llp Member | 2025-05-01 | Oct 1978 | — |
| SHAKESPEARE, Helen Ruth | Llp Member | 2025-05-01 | Oct 1977 | — |
| SHEVLIN, Paul Thomas Henry | Llp Member | 2021-11-01 | Apr 1978 | — |
| STILLIARD, Gerard Brian | Llp Member | 2017-05-01 | Oct 1971 | — |
| TODD, Neil Laurent | Llp Member | 2019-05-01 | Apr 1977 | — |
| WILSON, Simon George | Llp Member | 2021-11-01 | Oct 1970 | — |
Show 68 resigned officers
| Name | Role | Appointed | Resigned |
|---|---|---|---|
| CAVALIER, Stephen | Llp Designated Member | 2010-07-15 | 2020-09-07 |
| THOMPSON, Brian Ashley | Llp Designated Member | 2010-07-15 | 2015-02-28 |
| ALLAN, Janet | Llp Member | 2011-05-01 | 2013-04-01 |
| ARTHUR, Richard | Llp Member | 2011-05-01 | 2025-03-25 |
| BENNETT, Carla | Llp Member | 2012-05-01 | 2013-04-01 |
| BIRRELL, Iain Douglas | Llp Member | 2011-05-01 | 2013-04-01 |
| BLACKBURN, Julie | Llp Member | 2011-05-01 | 2016-04-30 |
| BRAY, Michael | Llp Member | 2012-05-01 | 2013-04-01 |
| CARTWRIGHT, Richard | Llp Member | 2017-05-01 | 2020-04-30 |
| CARTWRIGHT, Richard | Llp Member | 2012-05-01 | 2013-04-01 |
| CHRISTIE, Douglas Campbell | Llp Member | 2011-05-01 | 2020-04-30 |
| CLADINGBOWL, Catherine | Llp Member | 2015-05-01 | 2024-10-30 |
| CLADINGBOWL, Catherine | Llp Member | 2012-05-01 | 2013-04-01 |
| CONNOLLY, Jacqueline Anne | Llp Member | 2011-05-01 | 2013-04-01 |
| DAVIES, Cathryn | Llp Member | 2011-05-01 | 2018-04-30 |
| DAVIES, James Peter | Llp Member | 2012-05-01 | 2013-04-01 |
| DE-LOYDE, Karl | Llp Member | 2011-05-01 | 2013-04-01 |
| DEWSBURY, Simon | Llp Member | 2011-05-01 | 2013-04-01 |
| DIXON, Amanda | Llp Member | 2011-05-01 | 2013-04-01 |
| ELLIS, Anthony Roger | Llp Member | 2011-05-01 | 2013-04-01 |
| FINNEY, Janet | Llp Member | 2012-05-01 | 2022-07-26 |
| GLEDHILL, Judith | Llp Member | 2011-05-01 | 2015-10-30 |
| GREENWOOD, Reuben James | Llp Member | 2011-05-01 | 2026-04-30 |
| HAGUE, Jeremy Peter | Llp Member | 2011-05-01 | 2013-07-31 |
| HALL, John Nicholas | Llp Member | 2011-05-01 | 2013-04-01 |
| HALLIDAY, Rachel Ingrid | Llp Member | 2023-05-01 | 2025-11-26 |
| HARRIS, Susan Jane | Llp Member | 2011-05-01 | 2015-04-30 |
| HARRISON, Nicola | Llp Member | 2012-05-01 | 2013-04-01 |
| HUTSON, Andrew John | Llp Member | 2015-05-01 | 2025-02-28 |
| HUTSON, Andrew John | Llp Member | 2011-05-01 | 2013-04-01 |
| JOHNSON, Neil | Llp Member | 2011-05-01 | 2013-05-01 |
| JONES, Stephen | Llp Member | 2011-05-01 | 2021-04-18 |
| JONES, Thomas Patrick Russell | Llp Member | 2011-05-01 | 2023-04-30 |
| KAURA, Vineeta | Llp Member | 2013-05-01 | 2016-10-31 |
| LIPTROT, Philip William | Llp Member | 2011-05-01 | 2013-04-01 |
| LYBURN, Andrew | Llp Member | 2013-01-01 | 2014-08-31 |
| MC CLURE, Oonagh | Llp Member | 2011-05-01 | 2025-01-17 |
| MCDONALD, Andrew Joseph | Llp Member | 2011-05-01 | 2012-12-03 |
| MCFALL, James Ian | Llp Member | 2011-05-01 | 2020-04-30 |
| MICHELL, Karen | Llp Member | 2011-05-01 | 2012-02-27 |
| MILLBAND, Linda | Llp Member | 2017-05-01 | 2022-04-30 |
| MILLBAND, Linda | Llp Member | 2011-05-01 | 2013-04-01 |
| MORRISON, Stephen John Duncan | Llp Member | 2012-05-01 | 2013-04-01 |
| MULHERN, Peter Andrew | Llp Member | 2011-05-01 | 2015-04-30 |
| MULLEN, John Michael | Llp Member | 2011-05-01 | 2013-04-01 |
| OWEN, Gillian | Llp Member | 2011-05-01 | 2013-07-31 |
| PARKHOUSE, John Richard Oliver | Llp Member | 2011-05-01 | 2015-04-30 |
| PATEL, Rakesh | Llp Member | 2011-05-01 | 2023-04-30 |
| PATTERSON, Anthony Carl | Llp Member | 2011-05-01 | 2013-05-01 |
| PHILLIPS, Victoria Mary | Llp Member | 2011-05-01 | 2022-04-30 |
| PRUDHAM, Bryan | Llp Member | 2011-05-01 | 2013-04-01 |
| ROBERTS, Gavin | Llp Member | 2011-05-01 | 2014-04-30 |
| ROBERTS, Keith | Llp Member | 2011-05-01 | 2012-04-30 |
| SALAUN, Philippe | Llp Member | 2011-05-01 | 2012-04-30 |
| SAUNDERS, Nigel | Llp Member | 2011-05-01 | 2016-04-30 |
| SETHU, Jeeva | Llp Member | 2012-05-01 | 2013-04-01 |
| SMITH, Robert | Llp Member | 2011-05-01 | 2013-04-01 |
| STERRY, Tristram Richmond | Llp Member | 2011-05-01 | 2013-04-01 |
| STEVENS, Joanna Meriel | Llp Member | 2011-05-01 | 2015-05-08 |
| STILLIARD, Gerard Brian | Llp Member | 2012-05-01 | 2013-04-01 |
| STOTHARD, David Ian | Llp Member | 2011-05-01 | 2015-08-31 |
| STROGEN, Christopher John | Llp Member | 2011-05-01 | 2014-04-30 |
| TOLLITT, Matthew | Llp Member | 2011-05-01 | 2013-05-01 |
| VENN, Andrew | Llp Member | 2011-05-01 | 2013-04-01 |
| WETTON, Mogen | Llp Member | 2011-05-01 | 2013-04-01 |
| WOOD, Robert Antony | Llp Member | 2011-05-01 | 2015-04-30 |
| WOOD, Simon Peter | Llp Member | 2011-05-01 | 2026-04-30 |
| WOOLLEY, Richard David | Llp Member | 2011-05-01 | 2022-04-30 |
Ownership
Persons with significant control
| Name | Kind | Nature of control | Notified | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mr Anthony Hood | Individual | significant-influence-or-control-limited-liability-partnership | 2025-01-01 | Active |
| Mr Stephen Cavalier | Individual | significant-influence-or-control-limited-liability-partnership, significant-influence-or-control-as-firm-limited-liability-partnership | 2016-05-01 | Ceased 2020-09-07 |
| Mr Douglas Campbell Christie | Individual | significant-influence-or-control-limited-liability-partnership, significant-influence-or-control-as-firm-limited-liability-partnership | 2016-05-01 | Ceased 2020-04-30 |
| Lord John Stephen Monks | Individual | significant-influence-or-control-limited-liability-partnership, significant-influence-or-control-as-firm-limited-liability-partnership | 2016-05-01 | Ceased 2019-05-31 |
| Mrs Clare Mellor | Individual | significant-influence-or-control-limited-liability-partnership, significant-influence-or-control-as-firm-limited-liability-partnership | 2016-05-01 | Active |
| Mrs Michelle Ellen Cronin | Individual | significant-influence-or-control-limited-liability-partnership, significant-influence-or-control-as-firm-limited-liability-partnership | 2016-05-01 | Active |
Filing timeline
Last 20 of 193 total filings
| Date | Type | Category | Description | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-04-30 | LLTM01 | officers | Termination member limited liability partnership with name termination date | |
| 2026-04-30 | LLTM01 | officers | Termination member limited liability partnership with name termination date | |
| 2026-02-03 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type group | |
| 2025-11-26 | LLTM01 | officers | Termination member limited liability partnership with name termination date | |
| 2025-07-16 | LLCS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2025-05-01 | LLAP01 | officers | Appoint person member limited liability partnership with appointment date | |
| 2025-05-01 | LLAP01 | officers | Appoint person member limited liability partnership with appointment date | |
| 2025-05-01 | LLAP01 | officers | Appoint person member limited liability partnership with appointment date | |
| 2025-03-27 | LLTM01 | officers | Termination member limited liability partnership with name termination date | |
| 2025-02-28 | LLTM01 | officers | Termination member limited liability partnership with name termination date | |
| 2025-01-22 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type group | |
| 2025-01-20 | LLPSC01 | persons-with-significant-control | Notification of a person with significant control limited liability partnership | |
| 2025-01-20 | LLTM01 | officers | Termination member limited liability partnership with name termination date | |
| 2024-10-31 | LLTM01 | officers | Termination member limited liability partnership with name termination date | |
| 2024-07-22 | LLCS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2024-03-28 | LLCH01 | officers | Change person member limited liability partnership with name change date | |
| 2024-01-31 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type group | |
| 2023-07-17 | LLCS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2023-05-02 | LLTM01 | officers | Termination member limited liability partnership with name termination date | |
| 2023-05-02 | LLTM01 | officers | Termination member limited liability partnership with name termination date |
Public-record activity
Raw counts from Companies House — last 12–24 months
- Filings
- 8
- Capital events
- 0
- Officers appointed
- 3
- Officers resigned
- 3
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 2025-04-30 vs 2024-04-30
-
Turnover
+5%
£61,499,000 £64,590,000
-
Cash
+20.4%
£2,846,000 £3,426,000
-
Net assets
-14.9%
£12,137,000 £10,332,000
-
Employees
+2.3%
788 806
-
Operating profit
+2.3%
£9,510,000 £9,727,000
-
Profit before tax
+3.6%
£9,033,000 £9,356,000
-
Wages
+5.5%
£31,619,000 £33,363,000
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