Talk:Companies House

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Should Companies House be spelt with an apostrophe, "Companies' House"? If not, what gramatical rule applies?

While there may be a grammatical rule that is being broken, we report usage as provided by the organisation, and so no apostrophe is used. Noisy | Talk 11:05, 23 June 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Free Access to Companies House Data[edit]

Companies House only provides a small subset of data for free to the public. Information about company directors (as highlighted in the research noted in the article) can only be accessed after opening a commercial account with CH, and paying an access fee for every record.

http://www.companieshouse.gov.uk/toolsToHelp/WCInfo.shtml

The cost of this research precludes the sort of non-commercial financial research which occurs in the United States; research that is enabled by the SEC's policy of sharing data wholesale to the public.

http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1005678

http://business.nd.edu/Study_of_Financial_Regulation/Newsletters/Winter_2011-Issue_NO_4/Using_Textual_Analysis_to_Uncover_Fraud/ — Preceding unsigned comment added by 174.73.10.134 (talk) 17:17, 6 March 2012 (UTC)[reply]

1844[edit]

What happened in 1844? Presumably before then you needed a charter to form a company and that was when the current system whereby anyone can make one was bruoght in? Morwen - Talk 21:02, 2 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]

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I'll head out and get a photo of Companies House Cardiff when I can 81.106.129.49 15:15, 23 August 2007 (UTC) See Joint Stock Companies Act 1844. Twrw 20:50, 17 September 2006 (UTC)[reply]

I was looking for a list of the oldest surviving companies - anyone know of a list online of companies from 1844 onwards that still exist? Oldest I've found so far is 1913, but I'm sure there are others.83.148.147.99 09:00, 25 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Links[edit]

Is it really appropriate to link to various formation agents on this page?83.148.147.99 09:00, 25 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]

NO, it is not. I've removed those which have returned (yet again). 218.111.148.233 08:16, 4 November 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Sock Puppeting from CompaniesHouse.gov.uk[edit]

(cur | prev) 11:48, 29 January 2010‎ 194.75.36.157 (talk)‎ . . (12,496 bytes) (+181)‎ . . (→‎Criticisms: Update in response to this criticism.) (undo)

(cur | prev) 13:48, 19 January 2010‎ 62.254.241.114 (talk)‎ . . (12,315 bytes) (-1,086)‎ . . (Removal of section from 'Criticism' and updating intoductory information to indicate that Companies House does now have a 24/7 e-filing service in key areas, therfore invaldating the criticism..) (undo)

lp.companieshouse.gov.uk. 300 IN A 62.254.241.101

lp.companieshouse.gov.uk. 300 IN A 194.75.36.170

You must have been searching a long way back to find this, but whatever else it might be it isn't sock puppetry, just a conflict of interest. — Blue-Haired Lawyer ^t 23:14, 9 March 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Taylor & Sons liquidation[edit]

Need a section on this incident? http://www.theguardian.com/law/shortcuts/2015/jan/28/typo-how-one-mistake-killed-a-family-business-taylor-and-sons Casey (talk) 14:56, 30 January 2015 (UTC)[reply]

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