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Companies House — Forensic Assessment
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
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| 0.1.1 | 2026-10-18T15:29Z | Tab (for Sion Buckler) | Footer standardised; earlier log rows carried into this table; no content change | Editing Protocol, 18 Oct 2026 |
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New evidence, 20 October 2026
New evidence catalogued on the Legal Wiki on 20 October 2026 that bears on this page. Each linked page gives the source, what it fits and what cuts against it.
- EV-0260 — Companies House 00648813: Lakeside and Llandough Development Co Ltd (party 1, with Western Ground Rents Ltd as party 2, to the 11 June 1965 Llandough Primary School conveyance), incorporated 5 February 1960, still active (PUBLIC REGISTER (read))
- EV-0267 — Companies House 01379651: the appellant’s solicitors’ service company was “John Loosemore & Co. Services” until 18 November 1987, then “Loosemores Services” (file-custody route for the 1986–87 defence file) (PUBLIC REGISTER (read))
- EV-0277 — London Gazette, 3 July 1996 (p.8990) and 18 April 1997 (p.4683): Western Ground Rents Ltd’s members’ voluntary winding-up: notice to creditors (“All known Creditors have been or will be paid in full”) and final meetings on 16 May 1997 to lay an account of how “the property of the Companies have been disposed of” (OFFICIAL NOTICE (read in full))
Our case, prospective. Not a finding of any court.