Companies House
Forensic assessment · v0.2.0 · updated 1 November 2026
Translation pending: the assessment text below is in English, the authoritative record.
- Response status
- Redirected → Asked for clarification or fee
- Last contact
- 31 October 2026
- Next date on file
- 12 November 2026 (stern Ground Rents Limited (00342092) company records; reply asked by 12 Nov 2026.)
- Earlier version
- v0.1.1, published 18 October 2026 on the Legal Wiki
Since last assessment
18 October 2026 to 1 November 2026
Our reading: Since 18 October 2026, 5 emails are on file: 2 sent, 3 received (1 with content, 2 automatic acknowledgements). The latest reply moves the response status from “Redirected” to “Asked for clarification or fee”. Most material: 30 October 2026, received, fee or clarification demand (ref COH2382411X): Reply repeats the standard guidance: free online filing history for company 09760885 (Western Ground Rents Limited, the current company of that name), £3 per document from paper records, £9 per document for accounts or annual returns filed before 1973, £20 for an archive DVD of filings to 2002, card payment by telephone only. It does not answer the questions on the 1926 Cardiff Corporation conveyance, Mountjoy Ltd formation records, the 25 Dec 1938 conveyance or preservation. Next date on file: 12 November 2026. Nothing here changes the earlier current finding unless stated above; this is a log of contact, not a finding about any person.
- Sentcorrespondence (no disclosure)ref COH2382411X
Follow-up asks whether three records are held: a 1926 conveyance to Cardiff Corporation, the formation and company records of Mountjoy Ltd, and a conveyance on sale of 25 December 1938 to Western Ground Rents Ltd. Asks Companies House to confirm the correct company numbers (09760885 and 00342092 both quoted in earlier correspondence), name the custodian and series of each record, state the searches made, and preserve the records while the enquiry is open.
- Receivedfee or clarification demandref COH2382411X
Reply repeats the standard guidance: free online filing history for company 09760885 (Western Ground Rents Limited, the current company of that name), £3 per document from paper records, £9 per document for accounts or annual returns filed before 1973, £20 for an archive DVD of filings to 2002, card payment by telephone only. It does not answer the questions on the 1926 Cardiff Corporation conveyance, Mountjoy Ltd formation records, the 25 Dec 1938 conveyance or preservation.
- Sentfollow-upref COH2382411X
Follow-up to the 12 Oct 2026 reply (COH2382411X): two corrections and a new request for Mountjoy Limited and Western Ground Rents Limited (00342092) company records; reply asked by 12 Nov 2026.
2 automatic acknowledgements
- COH2382411X
Automatic acknowledgement of the 29 October follow-up; a response is promised.
- COH2382411X
Automatic acknowledgement of the 31 Oct 2026 email (ref COH2382411X): "a response will be with you shortly"; no content.
The assessment as last published
Carried over unchanged from v0.1.1 (18 October 2026). Links point inside this site.
Chronology and catalogue links — assessed 10-10-2026: See the Institutional Involvement Roadmap (1877–2026) for the date-ordered institution, people and evidence sequence. The reported 1988 Cadw-to-Minister spot-listing letter has its own placeholder at GHF-E152; the original has not been attached to that page as at 10-10-2026. A placeholder records an evidence gap, not the letter’s content or proof of misconduct.
Forensic Assessment — Companies House
Scope: corporate registry function and surviving company-file evidence relevant to WGR, BP and later development entities.
Newly verified context
Hansard recorded in May 1980 that Western Ground Rents had been bought by the BP pension fund. The Companies House evidence must now be used to identify the exact historical entity, transaction/ownership dates, directors and continuity of the legal entities, rather than relying on corporate shorthand.
Forensic control test
Identify the precise company number/name at each relevant date for Western Ground Rents, BP Pension Trust/BP Properties and Ideal Homes. Determine what filings survive and who controlled the entities when the relevant conveyances, registration applications and litigation occurred.
Current finding
As at 10-10-2026, the material reviewed does not establish wrongdoing by Companies House. This is limited to the registry’s documentary role and does not rule out other actors’ involvement. The registry is evidence about corporate identity and filings, not an adjudicator of the underlying land dispute.
Human action
Obtain historic filings, name changes, annual returns/accounts, officer appointments and any surviving dissolved-company material. Reconcile these with the 1969 conveyance and 1982–87 registration/litigation chain.
Acceptance: a corporate-identity chronology exists for every company relied upon in the litigation theory.
Institutional appearance timeline — linked source index
Coverage rule: this is a chronological navigation map of published Wiki source pages found by searching the current site index for “Companies House”. Every event label links directly to the page containing the source. It avoids duplicating source narratives. It records mention/appearance, not culpability. Dates are transcribed from page titles where available; “Date not explicit in title” means the linked source must be consulted. Search indexing is a discovery aid, not proof of exhaustive external coverage. 🕒
| Date shown by source title | Event / source — open evidence | Record class |
|---|---|---|
| Date not explicit in title | Press Archive — Newspaper Transcripts | Published Wiki evidence page |
Records-access register appearances — direct row links
Rows below match the institution’s name or an alias in the reply register’s sender/reference or recorded description. A match shows an appearance in the records trail, not necessarily an act by this institution.
No matching reply-register row was found for this name/alias set. That is not evidence that no correspondence exists; broaden the alias search when new records are added. 🕒
Related navigation: FOI & Public-Authority Reply Register · Records Access Chronology · Evidence Library
Page version & change log
Current version: 0.1.1
| Version | Date (UTC) | Editor (human or agent name) | Change | Source / evidence |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 0.1.1 | 2026-10-18T15:29Z | the editors | Footer standardised; earlier log rows carried into this table; no content change | Editing Protocol, 18 Oct 2026 |
| 0.1.0 | 2026-10-18T14:27:00+01:00 | OpenAI-assisted maintenance agent (GPT-6) | Installed footer log; tracking begins at 0.1.0 and does not reconstruct older revisions. CURRENT VERSION: 0.1.0. | Saved through WordPress API; public rendering not individually checked. |
| Legacy; version not recorded | 2026-10-18 (rollout date; exact time not separately recorded) | OpenAI-assisted maintenance agent (GPT-6) | Installed this page-local append-only change log and agent instructions. Existing page content was not intentionally rewritten. | User-directed site-wide changelog standard. Saved via WordPress API; public rendering of this page not yet independently checked. |
Agents and editors: follow the Editing Protocol.
Case file
This file is built for a future reparations claim. Facts are as the records show them; interpretation is labelled “our reading”. Items marked “not checked” have not been compared with the original record.
(a) Conduct timeline
4 dated interactions, oldest first; 3 automatic acknowledgements are left out. Quotations are verbatim from the institution’s email; where the reply’s substance was an attachment, the email subject is quoted instead.
Show the timeline
| Date | Direction | Reference | Type | Verbatim |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 12 October 2026 | received | COH2382411X | redirected elsewhere | Please find the following links for the dissolved companies |
| 29 October 2026 | sent | COH2382411X | correspondence (no disclosure) | Subject: RE: Your Communication with Companies House, Ref: COH2382411X |
| 30 October 2026 | received | COH2382411X | fee or clarification demand | Alternatively, any document can be accessed from the Companies House records. |
| 31 October 2026 | sent | COH2382411X | follow-up | Subject: URGENT: Mountjoy Limited and Western Ground Rents Limited (00342092): company records and preservation (follow-up to COH2382411X) |
(b) Inconsistencies and gaps
None found in the correspondence on file.
(c) Quarantined-name links
Records on the quarantine register (Kissed Frogs) that sit in, or came from, this institution’s holdings. None is treated as settled.
No quarantined-name record on the register is linked to this institution’s holdings.
(d) Duty and liability — our reading
Liability indicators (our reading): none
- Duty
- Companies Act 2006 (the registrar keeps the register and the documents delivered to it; dissolved-company records and their retention); FOIA 2000.
- Indicators the duty was not met
- none found in the correspondence on file.
- Evidence still needed to confirm
- the institution’s retention schedule and disposal record for the series in question; the catalogue or file list it searched; any internal review or complaint outcome.
- Likely extent of exposure if confirmed
- Limited to the accuracy and retention of the register; exposure depends on whether a filing that should exist was lost.
(e) Evidence still needed
- Inspect the dissolved-company file (microfiche or archive copy). for paid visit list
Versions
| 0.2.0 | 2026-11-01 | Moved to the Forensic Assessments webapp; dated “Since last assessment” section added; response status re-read. |
| 0.1.1 | 2026-10-18 | As published on the Legal Wiki. |