JF Law Limited
Registered name: JF LAW LIMITED
Part of JFRT Holdings Limited groupJF Law Limited made £10.3m revenue and £1.7m profit in the year to 31 Mar 2025.
JF Law Limited’s revenue grew 7% to £10.3m in the year to 31 Mar 2025, with £1.7m profit and 102 employees. The company is classified under “solicitors” and is based in Birkenhead; we hold 4 years of its filed accounts.
- Status
- Active
- Location
- Birkenhead, North West
- Age
- 12 yrs · since 2014
- Type
- Private Limited Company
Part of a group. The filing indicates this company sits within a group structure, so its results may depend on intra-group trading and it may be hard to replicate independently.
Key figures
Badges are automated estimates derived from the filed figures — not statements of fact about the company.
Financial history
| Year to | 31 Mar 2022 | 31 Mar 2023 | 31 Mar 2024 | 31 Mar 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Disclosure | No P&L | Full P&L | Full P&L | Full P&L |
| Profit & loss | ||||
| Revenue (turnover) | — | £8.2m | £9.6m | £10.3m |
| Cost of sales | — | £1.9m | £1.9m | £2m |
| Gross profit | — | £6.4m | £7.7m | £8.3m |
| Operating profit | — | £1.3m | £1.4m | £2.2m |
| Profit before tax | — | £1.3m | £1.4m | £2.3m |
| Profit after tax | — | £1.1m | £1m | £1.7m |
| Profit (best available) | — | £1.1m | £1m | £1.7m |
| Staff costs | — | £3.6m | £4.3m | £4.1m |
| Employees (average) | 92 | 122 | 128 | 102 |
| Ratios | ||||
| Profit margin | — | 13% | 10.8% | 16.3% |
| Gross margin | — | 77.3% | 80.2% | 81% |
| Revenue per employee | — | £67.4k | £75.3k | £101k |
| Profit per employee | — | £8.8k | £8.2k | £16.4k |
| Cash conversion | — | −78.2% | −115.4% | — |
| Growth (year on year) | ||||
| Revenue growth | — | — | ▲17.3% | ▲6.8% |
| Profit growth | — | — | ▼2.3% | ▲60.3% |
| Headcount growth | — | ▲32.6% | ▲4.9% | ▼20.3% |
| Balance sheet — indirect signals, not revenue | ||||
| Cash at bank | £1.4m | £1.5m | £1.9m | £1.3m |
| Net assets | £2.7m | £3.2m | £3.4m | £3m |
| Fixed assets | £86.5k | £64.7k | £43.9k | £21.8k |
| Current assets | £3.4m | £7.4m | £10.3m | £11m |
| Debtors | £2m | £5.9m | £8.4m | £9.6m |
| Deferred income | £13.7k | £16.7k | £117k | £79.2k |
| Cash from operations | — | −£1m | −£1.6m | — |
| Source | Accounts · bulk data Dec 2023 | Accounts · bulk data Dec 2023 | FullAccounts · bulk data Mar 2025 | FullAccounts · bulk data Dec 2025 |
How the business works
- Profit margin
- 16.3%
- Profit ÷ revenue.
- Gross margin
- 81%
- Gross profit ÷ revenue. High for software and services.
- Revenue per employee
- £101k
- Revenue ÷ average employees.
- Profit per employee
- £16.4k
- Profit ÷ average employees.
- Cash conversion
- —
- Cash generated from operations ÷ operating profit. Needs a cash-flow statement.
- Fixed assets ÷ revenue
- 0.2%
- Capital intensity. Low = capital-light, cheaper to start.
- Deferred income ÷ revenue
- 0.8%
- Customers paying upfront (subscriptions, deposits). Approximate when combined with accruals.
- Debtors ÷ revenue
- 93.4%
- Money owed by customers. Low = customers pay quickly.
Balance-sheet signals
Year-on-year changes in filed balance-sheet items. They can hint at momentum (or investment) but are not revenue or profit and must not be read as such.
- Net assets
- ▼11%
- Now £3m
- Cash at bank
- ▼32%
- Now £1.3m
- Headcount
- ▼20%
- Now 102
- Deferred income
- ▼33%
- Now £79.2k
- Fixed assets
- ▼50%
- Now £21.8k
Deferred income is reported together with accruals in this filing (“accruals and deferred income”), so it is an approximate signal only.
Group structure
Ownership chain
- JFRT Holdings Limitedultimate parent75–100%
- JF Law Limitedthis company
Bands show the share of ownership each company holds in the one below it.
Sister companies (1)
- Medical Negligence Solicitors Direct LtdFigures not disclosed
From the Persons with Significant Control register (corporate controllers only).
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Sources
Latest figures from FullAccounts for the year to 31 Mar 2025 (profit £1.7m), from the Companies House accounts bulk data published Dec 2025. Spotted an error? Request a correction.
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