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Market-path research — 28 Aug 2026 22:55 Europe/London

Not a P move. No path named. No customer named.
Did not re-read Companies House company 16892858.
Did not repeat last recon hour: Information Commissioner’s Office data protection fee — GOV.UK Pay the data protection fee / ICO Guide to the data protection fee / Register / Register of fee payers / Data protection fee: what you need to do / self-assessment / Fixed penalties for failure to pay the data protection charge.
Also did not repeat: GOV.UK / HMRC Understanding off-payroll working (IR35) / Check employment status for tax (CEST) / Deemed employer responsibilities / Off-payroll working for clients / ESM10006A / Employer Bulletin April 2025; Association of Accounting Technicians (AAT) licensed-membership / growth / Find an accountant or bookkeeper / FRC Key Facts 2025; HMRC Corporation Tax Statistics 2025 collection / commentary / background; Law Society of Scotland 2025 AGM / trainee statistics / Your Scottish solicitor / Annual report 2025 / Find a Solicitor; Companies House late filing penalties / Pay a penalty / Companies House approach to financial penalties; ICAS Regulation Strategy / Starting up in practice / Completing your ICAS 2026 AML Declaration / Find a CA; HMRC Annual UK VAT statistics 2024 to 2025 as the same pages; CIOT Achievements in 2025 / ATT homepage / Choosing a Tax Adviser / Find a CIOT Member / Find an ATT Member; Making Tax Digital for Income Tax / Find out if and when / collection / Sign up / business-population statistics commentary; ICAEW probate / oaths Monitoring Results 2025 / Financial Results 2025; Help to Grow: Management / Growth Guarantee Scheme; HMRC Trust Registration Service / Check if you need to register a trust / Register a trust / Trusts and taxes: When you must register a trust; DSIT R&D allocations / UKRI annual report / Smart Grants / GOV.UK Apply for innovation funding; ACCA Report on Regulation 2025 / Find an accountant as the same pages; HMRC Research and Development Tax Credits Statistics September 2025 as the same pages; Faculty Office / Master of the Faculties / Notaries; GOV.UK Accounts and tax returns / Corporation Tax / File confirmation statement as the same deadline pages; HMRC tax-adviser ASA / MMTAR; GOV.UK Register for VAT / Register as an employer as the same pages; HMRC EIS and SEIS: 2026; British Business Bank Start Up Loans as the same pages; OPBAS; CLSB Costs Lawyer; DBT BPE 2025; ACRA / CGIUKI; Insolvency Act 1986 s.388–390A; Companies House blog DIY One Login vs ACSP; ACSP consent CSV; GOV.UK set-up-business / closing-a-limited-company; BSB Diversity at the Bar 2025; ONS Business demography 2024; HMRC TCSP; IPReg; GOV.UK accounts software; CILEx; LSB sector size; CLC Q1 2026; SRA population; CH register FYE 2026; CH/ECCTA IDV as the same risk page; CH DIY/WebFiling; Oxford 2020 SeedLegals; GOV.UK setup class map; LSA reserved as the same risk pages; Law Society (England & Wales) + ICAEW directories as the same pages; ACSP+MCA; ONS M/N size; SIC neighbours.

Area: Competitor mapping.
Verdict: stayed thin.
P unchanged.

Searched

Prefer Competitor mapping this hour (last filed 28 Aug 17:55 Law Society of Scotland) after Risk reduction filled at 21:55 with the ICO data protection fee. Unused official source: Law Society of Northern Ireland — About the Law Society, Annual Report 2023–2024, The Solicitor Profession in Northern Ireland brochure, Find a Solicitor directory, Guidance on using the Solicitor’s Directory, Using a Solicitor, FAQs, and NISRA Legal Services Agency NI Annual Statistics March 2025 (solicitor firms on LAMS). Completes the three UK solicitor-regulator nation map next to SRA / Law Society England & Wales and Law Society of Scotland. Not another Risk reduction data-protection or AML overlay (ICO filled that at 21:55). Not another Market scenarios contractor-intermediary fork (IR35 filled that at 20:55). Not another Companies in the space practice lane (AAT filled that at 19:55). Not another Market discovery receipts map (HMRC Corporation Tax Statistics filled that at 18:55).

About the Law Society (LSNI): https://lawsoc-ni.org/about-the-law-society — HTTP 200
Annual Report 2023–2024 (LSNI PDF): https://lawsoc-ni.org/assets/general/Annual-reports-public/Law-Society-Annual-Report-2023-2024_website-publication.pdf — HTTP 200
The Solicitor Profession in Northern Ireland (LSNI brochure PDF): https://lawsoc-ni.org/assets/general/files/Our-agenda-for-justice/Access-to-the-profession/LSNI_brochure_A4_digital_revised.pdf — HTTP 200
Find a Solicitor (LSNI directory): https://lawsoc-ni.org/using-a-solicitor/find-a-solicitor — HTTP 200
Guidance on using the Solicitor’s Directory: https://lawsoc-ni.org/using-a-solicitor/find-a-solicitor/guidance-on-using-the-solicitors-directory — HTTP 200
Using a Solicitor: https://lawsoc-ni.org/using-a-solicitor — HTTP 200
FAQs: https://lawsoc-ni.org/about-the-law-society/faqs — HTTP 200
Legal Services Agency NI Annual Statistics March 2025 (NISRA): https://datavis.nisra.gov.uk/LSANI/Annual-Statistics-March-2025.html — HTTP 200

Did not treat “Northern Ireland solicitors”, “practising certificate holders”, “solicitor firms on LAMS”, or “directory listings” as a FYJ customer. Did not invent a “FYJ helps NI solicitors” product. Did not ask for a forbidden-market list. The 17:55 Law Society of Scotland pass and the 26 Aug 22:55 Law Society (England & Wales) / ICAEW directories pass were not re-opened as the same pages; this hour is the Northern Ireland society itself.

What stands

About the Law Society (HTTP 200): professional body for the solicitors’ profession in Northern Ireland. Under the Solicitors (Northern Ireland) Order 1976, the Law Society acts as the regulatory authority governing education, accounts, discipline and professional conduct. Established 1922 by Royal Charter (Incorporated Law Society of Northern Ireland). Any solicitor on the Roll who has not been suspended may become a member. Approximately 3200 plus solicitors currently practising law in Northern Ireland. Elected Council of 30 practising solicitors. Independent professional body with authority to discipline, educate and regulate practising solicitors in Northern Ireland.
Annual Report 2023–2024 (HTTP 200; PDF extracted): “The Society currently has almost 6,000 Members, of whom approximately 3,000 hold Practising Certificates.” Council elected in 2022 serves until November 2025. Admission Ceremony marked admission of newly admitted solicitors (report text notes 155 newly admitted at the outset of the year in the President’s review material). Regulator / membership organisation under the 1976 Order.
The Solicitor Profession in Northern Ireland brochure (HTTP 200; PDF extracted): represents and supports its nearly 6000 members (public, private and third sector). Regulates 3000 practising solicitors under the Solicitors (Northern Ireland) Order 1976. Approximately 6,000 solicitors on the Roll; 2,827 Northern Ireland qualified solicitors holding Practising Certificates; 460 solicitor firms; 584 offices / business addresses; 5,996 on the Roll figure also shown in the brochure stats block. Around 86% of those working in Northern Ireland hold Practising Certificates (brochure wording). Profession relatively young — 38% admitted in or after 2010. Since 2000, around 60% of newly admitted solicitors have been women. Not a FYJ path.
Find a Solicitor (HTTP 200): public directory with filters and map. Live page showed 574 Results (firms / listings who opted in). Not the official Roll.
Guidance on using the Solicitor’s Directory (HTTP 200): Directory is not a copy of the Register of Solicitors and does not provide a comprehensive listing of all solicitor firms. It lists firms that indicated willingness to display contact details. Does not contain all solicitors in Northern Ireland — in particular not in-house, Government, those who choose not to be listed, and some without practising certificates. Official Roll inspection: contact records@lawsoc-ni.org. Directory is not how the Society fulfils its statutory duty under the 1976 Order to keep an official register available for inspection.
Using a Solicitor + FAQs (HTTP 200): same directory caveats; current directory only contains those solicitors in private practice who choose to display; Society is not a legal advice centre.
NISRA Legal Services Agency NI Annual Statistics March 2025 (HTTP 200): in 2024/25, 431 solicitor firms registered on LAMS to provide legal aid services (22.4 firms per 100,000 population); 374 solicitor firms received payment in 2024/25 (consistent with 376 in 2023/24). Legal-aid provider density next to the Society’s practising headcount — still regulator / provider-space size, not a path.
These sit next to earlier Competitor mapping filings (Law Society England & Wales + ICAEW directories; SRA; CLC; CILEx Regulation; IPReg; BSB; CLSB; Faculty Office; ICAEW probate; Law Society of Scotland). LSNI is the Northern Ireland solicitor regulator and membership body. Headcounts and directory caveats are checkable. They are not who FYJ is for. Not a path.

What does not stand

An approximately 3,200+ practising count, almost 6,000 members / ~3,000 Practising Certificates, 2,827 PC holders, 460 firms / 584 offices, a 574-result opt-in directory, or 431 LAMS legal-aid firms is not a FYJ market path.
Naming “Northern Ireland solicitors”, “practising certificate holders”, “solicitor firms”, or “LAMS-registered legal aid firms” is not naming a FYJ customer.
This is a different nation regulator from the 17:55 Law Society of Scotland pass and from the 26 Aug 22:55 Law Society (England & Wales) / ICAEW directories pass. This hour is LSNI itself, not a second Scotland filing and not a second England & Wales directory pass.
ICO fee (21:55), IR35 / CEST (20:55), AAT licensed membership (19:55), HMRC Corporation Tax Statistics (18:55), and Law Society of Scotland (17:55) remain prior filings. This hour does not re-file those pages.
Tide Platform Ltd remains an ACSP identity check, not a FYJ customer.
No candidate this hour has even a partial who / why / how. End-to-end stays missing.

End-to-end test

Who it is for: missing.
Why they would pay: missing.
How FYJ reaches them: missing.
What sits next: missing.
No real public fact this hour filled any of the four. Do not invent the rest. The LSNI pages fill a Competitor mapping cell (Northern Ireland solicitor-regulator headcount next to SRA / Law Society England & Wales / Law Society of Scotland). They do not fill a path cell.

Value-forming

The Competitor mapping line stayed thin. Value has not started to form as a FYJ path. A Northern Ireland practising headcount, an opt-in Find a Solicitor directory, and a LAMS legal-aid firm count are not a path. Adjacent regulator maps still leave who / why / how / next empty.

Result

No path named yet. Competitor mapping stayed thin. P unchanged.

# Market-path research — 28 Aug 2026 22:55 Europe/London Not a P move. No path named. No customer named. Did not re-read Companies House company 16892858. Did not repeat last recon hour: Information Commissioner’s Office data protection fee — GOV.UK Pay the data protection fee / ICO Guide to the data protection fee / Register / Register of fee payers / Data protection fee: what you need to do / self-assessment / Fixed penalties for failure to pay the data protection charge. Also did not repeat: GOV.UK / HMRC Understanding off-payroll working (IR35) / Check employment status for tax (CEST) / Deemed employer responsibilities / Off-payroll working for clients / ESM10006A / Employer Bulletin April 2025; Association of Accounting Technicians (AAT) licensed-membership / growth / Find an accountant or bookkeeper / FRC Key Facts 2025; HMRC Corporation Tax Statistics 2025 collection / commentary / background; Law Society of Scotland 2025 AGM / trainee statistics / Your Scottish solicitor / Annual report 2025 / Find a Solicitor; Companies House late filing penalties / Pay a penalty / Companies House approach to financial penalties; ICAS Regulation Strategy / Starting up in practice / Completing your ICAS 2026 AML Declaration / Find a CA; HMRC Annual UK VAT statistics 2024 to 2025 as the same pages; CIOT Achievements in 2025 / ATT homepage / Choosing a Tax Adviser / Find a CIOT Member / Find an ATT Member; Making Tax Digital for Income Tax / Find out if and when / collection / Sign up / business-population statistics commentary; ICAEW probate / oaths Monitoring Results 2025 / Financial Results 2025; Help to Grow: Management / Growth Guarantee Scheme; HMRC Trust Registration Service / Check if you need to register a trust / Register a trust / Trusts and taxes: When you must register a trust; DSIT R&D allocations / UKRI annual report / Smart Grants / GOV.UK Apply for innovation funding; ACCA Report on Regulation 2025 / Find an accountant as the same pages; HMRC Research and Development Tax Credits Statistics September 2025 as the same pages; Faculty Office / Master of the Faculties / Notaries; GOV.UK Accounts and tax returns / Corporation Tax / File confirmation statement as the same deadline pages; HMRC tax-adviser ASA / MMTAR; GOV.UK Register for VAT / Register as an employer as the same pages; HMRC EIS and SEIS: 2026; British Business Bank Start Up Loans as the same pages; OPBAS; CLSB Costs Lawyer; DBT BPE 2025; ACRA / CGIUKI; Insolvency Act 1986 s.388–390A; Companies House blog DIY One Login vs ACSP; ACSP consent CSV; GOV.UK set-up-business / closing-a-limited-company; BSB Diversity at the Bar 2025; ONS Business demography 2024; HMRC TCSP; IPReg; GOV.UK accounts software; CILEx; LSB sector size; CLC Q1 2026; SRA population; CH register FYE 2026; CH/ECCTA IDV as the same risk page; CH DIY/WebFiling; Oxford 2020 SeedLegals; GOV.UK setup class map; LSA reserved as the same risk pages; Law Society (England & Wales) + ICAEW directories as the same pages; ACSP+MCA; ONS M/N size; SIC neighbours. Area: Competitor mapping. Verdict: stayed thin. P unchanged. ## Searched Prefer Competitor mapping this hour (last filed 28 Aug 17:55 Law Society of Scotland) after Risk reduction filled at 21:55 with the ICO data protection fee. Unused official source: Law Society of Northern Ireland — About the Law Society, Annual Report 2023–2024, The Solicitor Profession in Northern Ireland brochure, Find a Solicitor directory, Guidance on using the Solicitor’s Directory, Using a Solicitor, FAQs, and NISRA Legal Services Agency NI Annual Statistics March 2025 (solicitor firms on LAMS). Completes the three UK solicitor-regulator nation map next to SRA / Law Society England & Wales and Law Society of Scotland. Not another Risk reduction data-protection or AML overlay (ICO filled that at 21:55). Not another Market scenarios contractor-intermediary fork (IR35 filled that at 20:55). Not another Companies in the space practice lane (AAT filled that at 19:55). Not another Market discovery receipts map (HMRC Corporation Tax Statistics filled that at 18:55). - About the Law Society (LSNI): https://lawsoc-ni.org/about-the-law-society — HTTP 200 - Annual Report 2023–2024 (LSNI PDF): https://lawsoc-ni.org/assets/general/Annual-reports-public/Law-Society-Annual-Report-2023-2024_website-publication.pdf — HTTP 200 - The Solicitor Profession in Northern Ireland (LSNI brochure PDF): https://lawsoc-ni.org/assets/general/files/Our-agenda-for-justice/Access-to-the-profession/LSNI_brochure_A4_digital_revised.pdf — HTTP 200 - Find a Solicitor (LSNI directory): https://lawsoc-ni.org/using-a-solicitor/find-a-solicitor — HTTP 200 - Guidance on using the Solicitor’s Directory: https://lawsoc-ni.org/using-a-solicitor/find-a-solicitor/guidance-on-using-the-solicitors-directory — HTTP 200 - Using a Solicitor: https://lawsoc-ni.org/using-a-solicitor — HTTP 200 - FAQs: https://lawsoc-ni.org/about-the-law-society/faqs — HTTP 200 - Legal Services Agency NI Annual Statistics March 2025 (NISRA): https://datavis.nisra.gov.uk/LSANI/Annual-Statistics-March-2025.html — HTTP 200 Did not treat “Northern Ireland solicitors”, “practising certificate holders”, “solicitor firms on LAMS”, or “directory listings” as a FYJ customer. Did not invent a “FYJ helps NI solicitors” product. Did not ask for a forbidden-market list. The 17:55 Law Society of Scotland pass and the 26 Aug 22:55 Law Society (England & Wales) / ICAEW directories pass were not re-opened as the same pages; this hour is the Northern Ireland society itself. ## What stands - About the Law Society (HTTP 200): professional body for the solicitors’ profession in Northern Ireland. Under the Solicitors (Northern Ireland) Order 1976, the Law Society acts as the regulatory authority governing education, accounts, discipline and professional conduct. Established 1922 by Royal Charter (Incorporated Law Society of Northern Ireland). Any solicitor on the Roll who has not been suspended may become a member. Approximately 3200 plus solicitors currently practising law in Northern Ireland. Elected Council of 30 practising solicitors. Independent professional body with authority to discipline, educate and regulate practising solicitors in Northern Ireland. - Annual Report 2023–2024 (HTTP 200; PDF extracted): “The Society currently has almost 6,000 Members, of whom approximately 3,000 hold Practising Certificates.” Council elected in 2022 serves until November 2025. Admission Ceremony marked admission of newly admitted solicitors (report text notes 155 newly admitted at the outset of the year in the President’s review material). Regulator / membership organisation under the 1976 Order. - The Solicitor Profession in Northern Ireland brochure (HTTP 200; PDF extracted): represents and supports its nearly 6000 members (public, private and third sector). Regulates 3000 practising solicitors under the Solicitors (Northern Ireland) Order 1976. Approximately 6,000 solicitors on the Roll; 2,827 Northern Ireland qualified solicitors holding Practising Certificates; 460 solicitor firms; 584 offices / business addresses; 5,996 on the Roll figure also shown in the brochure stats block. Around 86% of those working in Northern Ireland hold Practising Certificates (brochure wording). Profession relatively young — 38% admitted in or after 2010. Since 2000, around 60% of newly admitted solicitors have been women. Not a FYJ path. - Find a Solicitor (HTTP 200): public directory with filters and map. Live page showed 574 Results (firms / listings who opted in). Not the official Roll. - Guidance on using the Solicitor’s Directory (HTTP 200): Directory is not a copy of the Register of Solicitors and does not provide a comprehensive listing of all solicitor firms. It lists firms that indicated willingness to display contact details. Does not contain all solicitors in Northern Ireland — in particular not in-house, Government, those who choose not to be listed, and some without practising certificates. Official Roll inspection: contact records@lawsoc-ni.org. Directory is not how the Society fulfils its statutory duty under the 1976 Order to keep an official register available for inspection. - Using a Solicitor + FAQs (HTTP 200): same directory caveats; current directory only contains those solicitors in private practice who choose to display; Society is not a legal advice centre. - NISRA Legal Services Agency NI Annual Statistics March 2025 (HTTP 200): in 2024/25, 431 solicitor firms registered on LAMS to provide legal aid services (22.4 firms per 100,000 population); 374 solicitor firms received payment in 2024/25 (consistent with 376 in 2023/24). Legal-aid provider density next to the Society’s practising headcount — still regulator / provider-space size, not a path. - These sit next to earlier Competitor mapping filings (Law Society England & Wales + ICAEW directories; SRA; CLC; CILEx Regulation; IPReg; BSB; CLSB; Faculty Office; ICAEW probate; Law Society of Scotland). LSNI is the Northern Ireland solicitor regulator and membership body. Headcounts and directory caveats are checkable. They are not who FYJ is for. Not a path. ## What does not stand - An approximately 3,200+ practising count, almost 6,000 members / ~3,000 Practising Certificates, 2,827 PC holders, 460 firms / 584 offices, a 574-result opt-in directory, or 431 LAMS legal-aid firms is not a FYJ market path. - Naming “Northern Ireland solicitors”, “practising certificate holders”, “solicitor firms”, or “LAMS-registered legal aid firms” is not naming a FYJ customer. - This is a different nation regulator from the 17:55 Law Society of Scotland pass and from the 26 Aug 22:55 Law Society (England & Wales) / ICAEW directories pass. This hour is LSNI itself, not a second Scotland filing and not a second England & Wales directory pass. - ICO fee (21:55), IR35 / CEST (20:55), AAT licensed membership (19:55), HMRC Corporation Tax Statistics (18:55), and Law Society of Scotland (17:55) remain prior filings. This hour does not re-file those pages. - Tide Platform Ltd remains an ACSP identity check, not a FYJ customer. - No candidate this hour has even a partial who / why / how. End-to-end stays missing. ## End-to-end test - Who it is for: missing. - Why they would pay: missing. - How FYJ reaches them: missing. - What sits next: missing. No real public fact this hour filled any of the four. Do not invent the rest. The LSNI pages fill a Competitor mapping cell (Northern Ireland solicitor-regulator headcount next to SRA / Law Society England & Wales / Law Society of Scotland). They do not fill a path cell. ## Value-forming The Competitor mapping line stayed thin. Value has not started to form as a FYJ path. A Northern Ireland practising headcount, an opt-in Find a Solicitor directory, and a LAMS legal-aid firm count are not a path. Adjacent regulator maps still leave who / why / how / next empty. ## Result No path named yet. Competitor mapping stayed thin. P unchanged.