01 Company overview
Identity and registration
- Official name
- BURNESS PAULL LLP
- Company number
- SO300380
- Company type
- Limited Liability Partnership
- Status
- Active
- Country of origin
- United Kingdom
- Dissolution date
- Not supplied
A registered office is not necessarily a trading location. The address is reproduced from the Companies House bulk record and should be interpreted in that legal context.
02 Filing dates
Accounts and statements
Last accounts made up to
31 March 2025Next accounts due
31 December 2026Last statement made up to
24 May 2026Next statement due
7 June 2027BritDB does not infer overdue status when the source does not state it.
03 Workforce reporting
Gender pay gap
- Median bonus gap
- 29.5%
- Mean bonus gap
- 24.5%
- Women receiving bonus
- 78.1%
- Men receiving bonus
- 77.4%
- Women in top quartile
- 65.0%
- Women in lower quartile
- 73.0%
Earlier reporting years (8)
- 500 to 99929.3% median hourly gap
- 500 to 99928.0% median hourly gap
- 500 to 99917.7% median hourly gap
- 250 to 49916.1% median hourly gap
- 250 to 49911.1% median hourly gap
- 250 to 49913.4% median hourly gap
- 250 to 49919.8% median hourly gap
- 250 to 49926.6% median hourly gap
Positive gaps mean men were paid more; negative gaps mean women were paid more. These figures are employer-reported and describe the workforce distribution, not equal pay for the same job. The company link uses the exact Companies House number supplied by the service.
04 Supplier payments
Payment practices and performance
- Reporting period
- 1 October 2025 – 31 March 2026
- Filed
- 17 April 2026
- Shortest standard term
- 30 days
- Longest standard term
- Not supplied
- E-invoicing offered
- No
- Supply-chain finance
- Not offered
- Payment codes
- No
- Construction retentions
- No qualifying construction contracts
Reported terms and dispute process
- Standard payment terms
The most commonly used payment terms are 30 days. Terms other than those are agreed with suppliers on an individual basis.
As with standard practice in other law firms, payments to suppliers of client disbursement costs are made by the firm following receipt of payment from clients for those costs, unless agreed otherwise with the supplier. - Dispute resolution process
The individual who requested goods or services is responsible for any initial disputes or queries with suppliers. They are also responsible for advising Accounts Payable that the invoice is in dispute and should be placed on hold. This allows Accounts Payable to provide an explanation if the supplier contacts them about payment.
The individual would escalate the issue to their head of business services for resolution if they have not been able to agree a solution with the supplier.
Earlier payment reports (11 shown)
- 20.0 average days to pay10.0% outside terms
- 21.0 average days to pay12.0% outside terms
- 23.0 average days to pay17.0% outside terms
- 27.0 average days to pay29.0% outside terms
- 21.0 average days to pay21.0% outside terms
- 21.0 average days to pay24.0% outside terms
- 21.0 average days to pay18.0% outside terms
- 23.0 average days to pay23.0% outside terms
- 27.0 average days to pay29.0% outside terms
- 25.0 average days to pay23.0% outside terms
- 53.0 average days to pay24.0% outside terms
This is a company-submitted statutory disclosure, not a credit rating. BritDB preserves the reporting period and links the report only through the Companies House number supplied by the official service. Percentages describe payments made during that period and may change in later reports.
05 Supply-chain transparency
Modern slavery statement
- Organisation
- BURNESS PAULL LLP
- Group submission
- No
- Statement period
- 1 August 2025 – 31 July 2026
- Approved
- 31 July 2026
- Sectors
- Professional and administrative services and supplies, including legal, consulting and accounting services
Organisation structure
Covered in the statement
Policies
Covered in the statement
Risk assessment
Covered in the statement
Due diligence
Covered in the statement
Training
Covered in the statement
Goals and KPIs
Covered in the statement
A registry entry records what the organisation declared in its statement. It is not an independent audit. Group statements can cover several companies; BritDB preserves each exact source-supplied company-number link and excludes approver names and email addresses.
06 Data protection
ICO fee-payer registration
Burness Paull LLP
Registration Z6686299
- Registered from
- 26 April 2002
- Current end date
- 25 April 2027
- Trading names
- BURNESS SOLICITORS
This is a candidate association, not an official Companies House link. The ICO file supplies no company number. The organisation name and postcode uniquely matched this company in the current snapshot. BritDB excludes all DPO contact fields and does not publish unmatched personal entries.
07 Public procurement
Contracts Finder awards
Legal Secondment
INFORMATION COMMISSIONER'S OFFICE · ocds-b5fd17-ac363ee2-833d-4ecc-9a3f-6a838a2eeb79
- Award value
- £28,000
- Contract period
- 16 September 2024 – 16 March 2025
- Procedure
- Competitive quotation (below threshold)
The supplier link is exact, but the award remains buyer-published procurement data. BritDB requires the GB-COH identifier supplied in the Contracts Finder OCDS release and does not infer suppliers from similar names.
08 Ownership and control
People with significant control
No individual or entity with signficant control
- Notified
- 24 May 2017
PSC records are company-filed public-register information. When the exact same displayed individual name occurs at multiple companies, BritDB offers a non-indexed cross-reference page. It is a name match only, not proof that the records describe the same person. Service addresses and partial dates of birth are deliberately omitted.
09 Charity register
Charity Commission links
No exact company-number link in this snapshot
The Charity Commission extract did not explicitly associate this Companies House number with a charity. BritDB does not use a name-only match to fill the gap.
This company-level check covers the Charity Commission for England and Wales. Links are accepted only when the official extract supplies this exact company registration number. Scottish charities now have separate OSCR profiles, but OSCR’s bulk fields do not provide a Companies House number, so BritDB does not infer a company link.
10 Northern Ireland charity register
CCNI exact company links
No unambiguous company-number link found
The CCNI source number did not resolve uniquely to this Companies House record. BritDB did not use a name or address match.
CCNI publishes company numbers without a jurisdiction prefix. BritDB links only when the plausible padded UK and NI candidates resolve to exactly one Companies House company.
11 Sanctions screening
UK Sanctions List
No exact business-registration-number link found
The imported UK Sanctions List did not supply this Companies House number as a UK-linked business identifier. BritDB did not attempt a name-only match.
No exact link is not sanctions clearance. UK restrictions can apply through ownership or control even where an entity is not separately named. Always use the current official list and obtain appropriate advice for a legally significant decision.
12 Public procurement
Find a Tender links
PS26230 - Scottish Law Legal Documentation
UK Research and Innovation · updated 10 August 2026
- Tender value
- Not supplied
- Awards
- 1
PS26146 - Preparation of Standard Form Scottish Law Security Agreement
UK Research and Innovation · updated 20 May 2026
- Tender value
- Not supplied
- Awards
- 1
Legal Services Framework
Pool Re Services Limited · updated 13 May 2026
- Tender value
- Not supplied
- Awards
- 3
Developments Legal Services Framework
Places for People Group Limited · updated 21 April 2026
- Tender value
- Not supplied
- Awards
- 3
Legal Services under Lot 1 of the National LGPS Legal Services Framework Agreement (NCCT42446)
City of Bradford Metropolitan District Councilas administering authority of the West Yorkshire Pension Fund · updated 5 January 2024
- Tender value
- Not supplied
- Awards
- 8
These links use only the GB-COH identifier supplied in the procurement record. A company may have other public-sector work that is absent, older, below publication thresholds or published without a Companies House identifier.
13 Environmental register
Environment Agency waste registrations
No exact company-number registration linked
The licensed Environment Agency subset did not contain this exact Companies House number. BritDB did not attempt a name-only match.
This is a privacy-reduced, exact-company subset. The full official register also includes sole traders and applicants without a matching Companies House number. Check the current Environment Agency register before relying on registration status.
14 Nature of business
Standard Industrial Classification
No SIC code was supplied in this bulk record.
15 Connected public record
Checks beyond the company register
Charity Commission
0 exact company-number links.
Northern Ireland charities
0 unambiguous company-number links.
Public contracts
5 procurement processes linked by exact GB-COH identifier.
Waste register
0 exact company-number registrations.
Corporate notices
The Gazette is not yet connected.
UK Sanctions List
No exact business-registration-number link in this report.
A checked source with no exact link is not a clean bill of health. Unchecked sources remain unknown, while sanctions may also apply through ownership or control of a listed person or entity.
16 Record timeline
Dates in the bulk record
- Confirmation statement
Latest confirmation statement made up to this date
- Accounts
Latest accounts made up to this date
- Company name
Previous name: BURNESS PAULL & WILLIAMSONS LLP
- Company name
Previous name: BURNESS LLP
- Incorporation
Company incorporated
17 Provenance
Sources for this profile
Identity, address, status, dates, SIC, previous names and mortgage totals.
Annual employer reports linked by the exact source-supplied Companies House number.
Statutory supplier-payment reports linked by the exact source-supplied Companies House number.
Annual statement summaries linked by exact source company number.
Privacy-reduced candidate associations based on a unique exact name-and-postcode match.
Historic awards linked by exact source-supplied GB-COH company identifier.
Current and ceased significant-control records joined by exact company number.
Daily England and Wales extract matched only by the official company registration number.
Daily CCNI export with company links only where the source number resolves unambiguously.
Complete FCDO list checked by exact UK-linked business registration number.
Procurement parties checked only through exact GB-COH identifiers.
Licensed subset linked only by exact Companies House number.
Financial regulation and licences.
Companies House, Charity Commission, OSCR and UK Sanctions List information is public-register data. BritDB reproduces and organises it with source-specific limits; official external links are kept on the dedicated source pages.