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Administration · 6 December 2022

Justice Support Services (North Kent)

Main contractor · London · Greater London

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What happened

JUSTICE SUPPORT SERVICES (NORTH KENT) LIMITED (company number 05826309), incorporated in 2006, entered administration on 6 December 2022. Its status at Companies House is now: administration.

Why it failed

Kent Police deducted from monthly Unitary Charge payments over alleged building defects and service failings, constraining cash flow until the company missed a bank debt payment in September 2022.

  • Main reason: Clients not paying or failing
  • Cash flow
  • Legal claims

Our summary of the reasons given in the administrators' proposals. These record the administrators' and directors' account of what happened.

An administrator, a licensed insolvency practitioner, takes control of the company to try to rescue it, sell the business or get a better result for creditors than a liquidation.

Timeline

The last accounts and payment report before the failure, then what happened, with the time between each.

  1. 31 March 2021

    Last accounts filed were made up to this date

    21 months later

  2. 6 December 2022

    Administration started

AccountsPayment reportInsolvency

Before it failed

Key figures

Turnover in its last accounts, year to Mar 2021
£4.5m
Accounts at Companies House
Profit before tax, year to Mar 2021
£344k
Accounts at Companies House
Net liabilities, year to Mar 2021
£4.8m
Accounts at Companies House

The last accounts filed were full accounts made up to 31 March 2021, 20 months before it went into administration.

The full filing history, including any late filings, charges and director changes, is on Companies House.

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