# Backhouse Solicitors Limited

## Details

- **Company number:** [06990670](https://find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk/company/06990670)
- **Status:** Active
- **Type:** Private Limited Company
- **Incorporated:** 14 Aug 2009
- **Registered office:** 17 DUKE STREET, CHELMSFORD, CM1 1JU
- **Nature of business:** [69102](/sic/69102) Solicitors



## Officers

| Name | Role | Appointed | Resigned |
|---|---|---|---|
| SEARL, Elizabeth Jane | director | 24 Nov 2017 | 18 Jun 2026 |
| SMITH, Sarah | director | 1 Jul 2024 |  |
| MURPHY, Colin Paul | director | 5 Aug 2020 |  |
| BLAIR, Catherine Alice | director | 22 Jul 2020 |  |
| BACKHOUSE, Minal | director | 14 Aug 2009 |  |



## Control

| Name | Nature of control | Notified | Ceased |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mr Stephen Richard Chesney | significant-influence-or-control | 6 Apr 2016 | 9 Oct 2018 |
| Mr Nicholas Francis Welch | significant-influence-or-control | 6 Apr 2016 | 28 May 2020 |
| Mrs Elizabeth Jane Searl | significant-influence-or-control | 25 Feb 2019 | 17 Apr 2025 |
| Ms Minal Backhouse | ownership-of-shares-75-to-100-percent, voting-rights-75-to-100-percent, right-to-appoint-and-remove-directors | 6 Apr 2016 |  |



## Accounts

| Year ended | Net assets | Cash | Employees |
|---|---|---|---|
| 31 Mar 2025 | £1,033,517 | £622,956 | 1 |
| 31 Mar 2024 | £775,656 | £321,268 | 49 |
| 31 Mar 2023 | £595,968 | £154,124 | 39 |
| 31 Mar 2022 | £505,298 | £230,499 | 27 |
| 31 Mar 2021 | £332,027 | £239,301 | 23 |
| 31 Mar 2020 | - | £64,693 | 20 |
| 31 Mar 2019 | - | £48,036 | - |
| 31 Mar 2018 | £45,870 | £34 | - |
| 31 Mar 2017 | £127,677 | £20,524 | - |
| 31 Mar 2016 | - | £618 | - |
| 31 Mar 2015 | - | £6,896 | - |
| 31 Mar 2014 | £105,226 | £18,050 | - |
| 31 Mar 2013 | £90,904 | £13,059 | - |
| 31 Mar 2012 | £41,168 | £2,072 | - |
| 31 Mar 2011 | £1,084 | £20 | - |
| 31 Mar 2010 | £100 | - | - |