Authorised by the FCA
This firm is on the FCA register and authorised to carry out regulated activities.
Website, phone number and address
Compare these against whatever you were given. Scammers clone real firm names and reference numbers but use their own phone number and website, so a detail that does not match the register is the clearest warning sign there is.
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Phone number
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Address
5 George Lane, Plymouth, Devon, PL7 1LJ, United Kingdom
In the full report: 3 background checks, 1 thing worth a closer look
- When avplaw.co.uk first appeared online, and whether it can receive email
- What kind of line 07990 590389 is
- Who else gives the postcode PL7 1LJ
Other names (2)
If you were contacted under any of these names, it is this firm.
- Ethos HR Trading name: A name it trades under now.
- AVP Law Former name: A name it was registered under before.
FCA permissions and consumer protection
- Claims management No FSCS coverMoney you pay a claims company is not FSCS protected, but FCA rules cap what it may charge you for a financial services claim. Complaints about this firm go to the Financial Ombudsman Service free of charge.
- Complaints Ombudsman, freeYou can refer a complaint about this firm to the Financial Ombudsman Service for free, whichever activity it relates to.
FCA disciplinary action and complaints
No FCA disciplinary action.
The Financial Ombudsman Service only publishes complaint figures for firms with 30 or more new complaints in six months, so there are none here for this firm.
Companies House record
The company behind the firm: its status, age, registered office and directors.
- Company number
- 05950217 (opens Companies House in a new tab)
- Company status
- Active
- Company type
- Private limited company
- Incorporated
- 28 September 2006 (20 years old)
- Registered office
- 5 George Lane, Plympton, Plymouth, Devon, PL7 1LJ
- Nature of business
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- Other business support service activities not elsewhere classified (SIC 82990)
Directors and company secretaries
| Name | Role | Born | Appointed | Other companies |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Alexander Passman | Director | May 1978 | 28 Sep 2006 | None |
| Victoria Pratt | Secretary | Not published | 28 Sep 2006 | – |
In the full report: every company its directors have run
- Confirmation that its director runs no other company
- Both people who have been directors, with their dates
Filed accounts and finances
Net assets
£962
−86% from £7,035
Employees (average)
1
Same as 1
Assets and liabilities
In the full report: all 7 years of accounts
- Every year from 2019 to 2025
- The chart, over every year
- Every filed figure, year by year
About these figures
- Turnover
- Money taken from sales in the year, before any costs.
- Profit before tax
- What was left after the year’s costs, before corporation tax. A minus figure is a loss.
- Net assets, or total equity
- Everything the company owns minus everything it owes. A minus figure means it owes more than it owns.
- Total assets and total liabilities
- Everything the company owns, and everything it owes, on the last day of the year. The gap between them is its net assets.
- Cash at bank
- Money in the company’s accounts on the last day of the year.
- Owed within a year, owed after a year
- Debts and bills due in the next twelve months, and those due later.
There is no turnover or profit: small companies do not have to publish them.
Accounts filed at Companies House for company 05950217. Every figure is as filed, apart from total assets and total liabilities, which are added up from filed figures. Nothing is estimated.
Key dates in its history
Avp Law’s history from the FCA register and Companies House, newest first.
2020
1 October 2020
- Changed its registered name from "AVP Law"
FCA register
29 July 2020
- Regulated by the FCA from this date
- Changed its registered name from "AVP Law Limited"
- Became authorised by the FCA
FCA register
2019
31 March 2019
- No longer regulated by the Claims Management Regulator
FCA register
2016
11 July 2016
- Regulated by the Claims Management Regulator from this date
FCA register
1 July 2016
- Alexander Passman took control (75–100% of shares)
Companies House
2006
28 September 2006
- Incorporated at Companies House
Companies House
In the full report: all 11 events
- All 11 events in its history (8 shown here)
- Every director appointment and resignation: 1
Firms like Avp Law
Other firms of the same type (claims management firm), nearest first.
In the Plymouth (PL) postcode area
Elsewhere in the UK
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- Every company its directors have run, named
- 3 background checks on its contact details, 1 flagged
- 7 years of accounts, charted
- All 11 events in its history
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Sources and links
- Its entry on the FCA register register.fca.org.uk
- Its Companies House record gov.uk
- Complaints the Financial Ombudsman Service can help with financial-ombudsman.org.uk
- Report a scam to the FCA fca.org.uk