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REGISTERED NUMBER: 13741218 (England and Wales)














Unaudited Financial Statements

for the Year Ended 31 March 2024

for

CLARK WILLIS SOLICITORS LTD

CLARK WILLIS SOLICITORS LTD (REGISTERED NUMBER: 13741218)






Contents of the Financial Statements
for the Year Ended 31 March 2024




Page

Company Information 1

Abridged Balance Sheet 2

Notes to the Financial Statements 4

Accountants' Report 8

CLARK WILLIS SOLICITORS LTD

Company Information
for the Year Ended 31 March 2024







Directors: T L Jones
A M Jones
A I Spurr





Registered office: 105 Bondgate
Darlington
Co. Durham
DL3 7LB





Registered number: 13741218 (England and Wales)





Accountants: Mitchell Gordon LLP
43 Coniscliffe Road
Darlington
Co. Durham
DL3 7EH

CLARK WILLIS SOLICITORS LTD (REGISTERED NUMBER: 13741218)

Abridged Balance Sheet
31 March 2024

31/3/24 31/3/23
Notes £    £    £    £   
Fixed assets
Tangible assets 4 119,447 48,997

Current assets
Debtors 476,667 495,459
Cash at bank and in hand 140,945 56,847
617,612 552,306
Creditors
Amounts falling due within one year 330,976 388,150
Net current assets 286,636 164,156
Total assets less current liabilities 406,083 213,153

Creditors
Amounts falling due after more than one
year

(68,328

)

(15,655

)

Provisions for liabilities (6,667 ) (7,633 )
Net assets 331,088 189,865

Capital and reserves
Called up share capital 600 600
Retained earnings 330,488 189,265
Shareholders' funds 331,088 189,865

The company is entitled to exemption from audit under Section 477 of the Companies Act 2006 for the year ended 31 March 2024.

The members have not required the company to obtain an audit of its financial statements for the year ended 31 March 2024 in accordance with Section 476 of the Companies Act 2006.

The directors acknowledge their responsibilities for:
(a)ensuring that the company keeps accounting records which comply with Sections 386 and 387 of the Companies Act 2006 and
(b)preparing financial statements which give a true and fair view of the state of affairs of the company as at the end of each financial year and of its profit or loss for each financial year in accordance with the requirements of Sections 394 and 395 and which otherwise comply with the requirements of the Companies Act 2006 relating to financial statements, so far as applicable to the company.

CLARK WILLIS SOLICITORS LTD (REGISTERED NUMBER: 13741218)

Abridged Balance Sheet - continued
31 March 2024


The financial statements have been prepared and delivered in accordance with the provisions applicable to companies subject to the small companies regime.

All the members have consented to the preparation of an abridged Income Statement and an abridged Balance Sheet for the year ended 31 March 2024 in accordance with Section 444(2A) of the Companies Act 2006.

In accordance with Section 444 of the Companies Act 2006, the Income Statement has not been delivered.

The financial statements were approved by the Board of Directors and authorised for issue on 15 October 2024 and were signed on its behalf by:




T L Jones - Director A M Jones - Director




A I Spurr - Director


CLARK WILLIS SOLICITORS LTD (REGISTERED NUMBER: 13741218)

Notes to the Financial Statements
for the Year Ended 31 March 2024

1. STATUTORY INFORMATION

Clark Willis Solicitors Ltd is a private company, limited by shares , registered in England and Wales. The company's registered number and registered office address can be found on the Company Information page.

The presentation currency of the financial statements is the Pound Sterling (£).


2. ACCOUNTING POLICIES

Basis of preparing the financial statements
These financial statements have been prepared in accordance with Financial Reporting Standard 102 "The Financial Reporting Standard applicable in the UK and Republic of Ireland" including the provisions of Section 1A "Small Entities" and the Companies Act 2006. The financial statements have been prepared under the historical cost convention.

The financial statements have been prepared under the going concern basis of accounting.

Turnover
Turnover is measured at the fair value of the consideration received or receivable, excluding discounts, rebates, value added tax and other sales taxes.

Tangible fixed assets
Depreciation is provided at the following annual rates in order to write off each asset over its estimated useful life or, if held under a finance lease, over the lease term, whichever is the shorter.
Improvements to property - 20% on cost
Fixtures and fittings - 33% on cost, 20% on cost and 15% on cost
Computer equipment - 33% on cost and 20% on cost

Taxation
Taxation for the year comprises current and deferred tax. Tax is recognised in the Income Statement, except to the extent that it relates to items recognised in other comprehensive income or directly in equity.

Current or deferred taxation assets and liabilities are not discounted.

Current tax is recognised at the amount of tax payable using the tax rates and laws that have been enacted or substantively enacted by the balance sheet date.

Deferred tax
Deferred tax is recognised in respect of all timing differences that have originated but not reversed at the balance sheet date.

Timing differences arise from the inclusion of income and expenses in tax assessments in periods different from those in which they are recognised in financial statements. Deferred tax is measured using tax rates and laws that have been enacted or substantively enacted by the year end and that are expected to apply to the reversal of the timing difference.

Unrelieved tax losses and other deferred tax assets are recognised only to the extent that it is probable that they will be recovered against the reversal of deferred tax liabilities or other future taxable profits.

CLARK WILLIS SOLICITORS LTD (REGISTERED NUMBER: 13741218)

Notes to the Financial Statements - continued
for the Year Ended 31 March 2024

2. ACCOUNTING POLICIES - continued

Hire purchase and leasing commitments
Assets obtained under hire purchase contracts or finance leases are capitalised in the balance sheet. Those held under hire purchase contracts are depreciated over their estimated useful lives. Those held under finance leases are depreciated over their estimated useful lives or the lease term, whichever is the shorter.

The interest element of these obligations is charged to profit or loss over the relevant period. The capital element of the future payments is treated as a liability.

Rentals paid under operating leases are charged to profit or loss on a straight line basis over the period of the lease.

Pension costs and other post-retirement benefits
The company operates a defined contribution pension scheme. Contributions payable to the company's pension scheme are charged to profit or loss in the period to which they relate.

3. EMPLOYEES AND DIRECTORS

The average number of employees during the year was 28 (2023 - 28 ) .

4. TANGIBLE FIXED ASSETS
Totals
£   
COST
At 1 April 2023 202,939
Additions 107,494
Disposals (23,337 )
At 31 March 2024 287,096
DEPRECIATION
At 1 April 2023 153,942
Charge for year 36,177
Eliminated on disposal (22,470 )
At 31 March 2024 167,649
NET BOOK VALUE
At 31 March 2024 119,447
At 31 March 2023 48,997

CLARK WILLIS SOLICITORS LTD (REGISTERED NUMBER: 13741218)

Notes to the Financial Statements - continued
for the Year Ended 31 March 2024

4. TANGIBLE FIXED ASSETS - continued

Fixed assets, included in the above, which are held under finance leases are as follows:

Totals
£   
COST
At 1 April 2023 41,471
Additions 98,238
Disposals (23,337 )
At 31 March 2024 116,372
DEPRECIATION
At 1 April 2023 24,130
Charge for year 22,761
Eliminated on disposal (22,470 )
At 31 March 2024 24,421
NET BOOK VALUE
At 31 March 2024 91,951
At 31 March 2023 17,341

5. SECURED DEBTS

The following secured debts are included within creditors:

31/3/24 31/3/23
£    £   
Finance leases 91,572 23,856

Finance lease liabilities are secured against the assets to which they relate.

6. OTHER FINANCIAL COMMITMENTS

The company has financial commitments in respect of property and motor vehicle leases amounting to £173,187 at the balance sheet date (2023: £210,923).

7. DIRECTORS' ADVANCES, CREDITS AND GUARANTEES

The following advances and credits to directors subsisted during the year ended 31 March 2024 and the period ended 31 March 2023:

31/3/24 31/3/23
£    £   
T L Jones
Balance outstanding at start of year - -
Amounts advanced 4,091 -
Amounts repaid (4,091 ) -
Amounts written off - -
Amounts waived - -
Balance outstanding at end of year - -

CLARK WILLIS SOLICITORS LTD (REGISTERED NUMBER: 13741218)

Notes to the Financial Statements - continued
for the Year Ended 31 March 2024

7. DIRECTORS' ADVANCES, CREDITS AND GUARANTEES - continued

A I Spurr
Balance outstanding at start of year - -
Amounts advanced 6,004 -
Amounts repaid (6,004 ) -
Amounts written off - -
Amounts waived - -
Balance outstanding at end of year - -

A M Jones
Balance outstanding at start of year - -
Amounts advanced 4,800 -
Amounts repaid (4,800 ) -
Amounts written off - -
Amounts waived - -
Balance outstanding at end of year - -

The above loans are interest free and are repayable on demand.

Accountants' Report to the Board of Directors
on the Unaudited Financial Statements of
Clark Willis Solicitors Ltd

The following reproduces the text of the report prepared for the directors in respect of the company's annual unaudited financial statements. In accordance with the Companies Act 2006, the company is only required to file a Balance Sheet. Readers are cautioned that the Abridged Income Statement and certain other primary statements and the Report of the Directors are not required to be filed with the Registrar of Companies.

In order to assist you to fulfil your duties under the Companies Act 2006, we have prepared for your approval the financial statements of Clark Willis Solicitors Ltd for the year ended 31 March 2024 which comprise the Abridged Income Statement, Abridged Balance Sheet and the related notes from the company's accounting records and from information and explanations you have given us.

As a practising member firm of the Association of Chartered Certified Accountants, we are subject to its ethical and other professional requirements which are detailed at http://www.accaglobal.com/rulebook.

This report is made solely to the Board of Directors of Clark Willis Solicitors Ltd, as a body, in accordance with the terms of our engagement letter dated 14 December 2021. Our work has been undertaken solely to prepare for your approval the financial statements of Clark Willis Solicitors Ltd and state those matters that we have agreed to state to the Board of Directors of Clark Willis Solicitors Ltd, as a body, in this report in accordance with the requirements of the Association of Chartered Certified Accountants as detailed at http://www.accaglobal.com/factsheet163. To the fullest extent permitted by law, we do not accept or assume responsibility to anyone other than the company and its Board of Directors, as a body, for our work or for this report.

It is your duty to ensure that Clark Willis Solicitors Ltd has kept adequate accounting records and to prepare statutory financial statements that give a true and fair view of the assets, liabilities, financial position and profit of Clark Willis Solicitors Ltd. You consider that Clark Willis Solicitors Ltd is exempt from the statutory audit requirement for the year.

We have not been instructed to carry out an audit or a review of the financial statements of Clark Willis Solicitors Ltd. For this reason, we have not verified the accuracy or completeness of the accounting records or information and explanations you have given to us and we do not, therefore, express any opinion on the statutory financial statements.






Mitchell Gordon LLP
43 Coniscliffe Road
Darlington
Co. Durham
DL3 7EH


15 October 2024