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Market-path research — 29 Aug 2026 13:55 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: Criminal Finances Act 2017 Part 3 / HMRC corporate offences for failing to prevent criminal facilitation of tax evasion / Tackling tax evasion guidance PDF / CFA 2017 Part 3 / ss.44–48 / S.I. 2017/739 reg. 3 / HMRC live CCO investigations FOI + HTML as at 30 Jun 2026 / self-reporting / original consultation / named tackling-tax-evasion-government-guidance / Part 3 /contents / named guidance-HTML / collection paths (404).
Also did not repeat: GOV.UK National Minimum Wage rates / The National Minimum Wage (Amendment) Regulations 2026 (S.I. 2026/357) / LPC The National Minimum Wage in 2026 / National Minimum Wage employer overview / Minimum wage calculator for employers / Am I getting the National Minimum Wage / Pay and work rights / Employment status / Get ready to employ someone / Employ someone / National Minimum Wage Regulations 2015 / National Minimum Wage Act 1998 / named national-minimum-wage-calculator (404) / named national-minimum-wage-enforcement (404) / named national-minimum-wage-national-living-wage (404); HMRC/ONS joint Earnings and employment from Pay As You Earn Real Time Information, UK: August 2026 / GOV.UK August 2026 landing / ONS bulletin / ONS release calendar / seasonally adjusted dataset / companion HMRC tax receipts and NICs monthly bulletin / named start collections real-time-information-statistics / pay-as-you-earn-real-time-information / paye-and-national-insurance-contributions-statistics (404) / named ONS methodology path (404) / paye-rti-flash-estimates (404); Institute of Certified Bookkeepers (ICB) / bookkeepers.org.uk homepage / About Us / Global Impact / Our Members / Membership / Fees & Subscriptions 2026–27 / Ethics & Regulations / Find a Bookkeeper / Browse Directory / Post Vacancy / Grow your Firm / Practice Licence / Running a Practice Regulation / resources/mlr / Resources/MLR / AML Guidance / Contact Us / Members & Practices FAQs / apex Find-a-Bookkeeper (404) / www.icb.org.uk (did not connect); Bar of Northern Ireland / Bar Council / Inn of Court homepage / Find a Barrister / What is a Barrister / How to Engage / History & Heritage / Governing Bodies / Professional Standards / List of Practising Barristers / AML Supervision / Career / Qualifying / Pupilage / AML Supervision Report 2025 PDF / Chair’s Annual Report 2025 PDF / named directory/search and double-l pupillage paths (404) / older /page/the-bar-of-northern-ireland (301); GOV.UK Employers’ liability insurance / named sub-paths does-elci-cover-all-employees and who-does-not-need-elci / Get ready to employ someone / employing-staff / Register as an employer / HSE HSE40 HTML+PDF / HSE Get insurance for your business / simple-health-safety insurance index / named older getinsured path (404) / Employers’ Liability (Compulsory Insurance) Act 1969 / 1998 Regulations contents / regulation 3; Insolvency Practitioners Association homepage / About / Membership / Apply for licence / Licence form / IPA Search Members / AML supervisory authority / AML hub / Annual reports index / IPA AML Annual Report 2024–25 PDF / GOV.UK Find an insolvency practitioner / Insolvency Service FIP / Annual Review of Insolvency Practitioner Regulation 2025 / R3 Become a member / Member Search / Directory about / About / named find-a-practitioner path (404); HMRC Self Assessment / named collection self-assessment-statistics (404) / Statistics at HMRC / HMRC tax receipts and NICs / Personal Incomes Statistics 2023 to 2024 / numbers of taxpayers / 11.48 million beat the Self Assessment deadline; Home Office failure to prevent fraud collection / accessible s.204 guidance / Failure to Prevent Fraud Guidance English Language v1.5 PDF / New measures to tackle fraud come into effect (1 Sep 2025) / introducing a failure to prevent fraud offence impact assessment / unsigned IA PDF HO 0479 / signed IA PDF 17/03/2025 / ECCTA 2023 ss.199, 201, 204 / Schedule 13 / S.I. 2025/349 reg. 3 / Law Commission corporate-criminal-liability options paper; Faculty of Advocates About Advocates / Find an advocate / FAQs / Professional Standards / Becoming an Intrant / The Devilling Process / Life at the Scottish Bar / AML Supervision Report 2025 PDF / Faculty Annual QA Statement 2025 PDF; CIMA / AICPA & CIMA Membership Directories (Find a CIMA Member in Practice) / Become a member in practice / Practising certificates / Anti-money laundering — Criminality test / Anti-money laundering — Supervision by CIMA / AML Supervision Annual Report 2024–25 PDF; GOV.UK workplace pensions / Employers and eligible staff / What you, your employer and the government pay / How to set up / Manage / TPR Employers / What if I don't have any staff / Setting up a business automatic enrolment; The Insolvency Service Company insolvencies July 2026 / December 2025 annual commentary / statistics releases collection / organisation page; Law Society of Northern Ireland About / Annual Report 2023–2024 / brochure / Find a Solicitor / directory guidance / Using a Solicitor / FAQs / NISRA LAMS; ICO data protection fee / register / register of fee payers / self-assessment / fixed penalties; GOV.UK / HMRC Understanding off-payroll working (IR35) / CEST / Deemed employer / Off-payroll working for clients / ESM10006A; 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 AGM / trainee statistics / Find a Solicitor; Companies House late filing penalties / ECCTA 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; CIOT / ATT Find a Member; Making Tax Digital for Income Tax; ICAEW probate / oaths; Help to Grow / Growth Guarantee; HMRC Trust Registration Service; Innovate UK / UKRI / Smart Grants / Apply for innovation funding; ACCA Report on Regulation / Find an accountant; HMRC R&D Tax Credits Statistics September 2025; Faculty Office / Master of the Faculties notaries; confirmation statement / accounts / Corporation Tax deadline pages; HMRC tax-adviser ASA / MMTAR; VAT / PAYE employer pages as the same pages; HMRC EIS/SEIS 2026; Start Up Loans; OPBAS; CLSB Costs Lawyer; DBT BPE 2025; ACRA / CGIUKI; Insolvency Act 1986 s.388–390A reserved appointments; Companies House 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; Companies House register activities FYE 2026; CH/ECCTA IDV; CH DIY/WebFiling; Oxford 2020 SeedLegals; GOV.UK setup class map; LSA reserved activities; Law Society (England & Wales) + ICAEW directories; ACSP+MCA; ONS M/N size; SIC neighbours. Last hour’s CFA Part 3 pass was Risk reduction. Did not retry STEP.org. Did not retry ICB / bookkeepers.org.uk / www.icb.org.uk. Did not re-open last Competitor mapping’s Bar of Northern Ireland pages as the same pages.

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

Searched

Prefer Competitor mapping this hour (last filed 29 Aug 07:55 Bar of Northern Ireland) after Risk reduction filled at 12:55 with CFA 2017 Part 3. Unused official / public source: Legal Ombudsman (LeO) — complaints / ombudsman lane for regulated legal service providers in England and Wales (legalombudsman.org.uk / OLC under Legal Services Act 2007). Distinct from SRA / Law Society / BSB / Faculty / Bar of NI / CLSB / CLC / CILEx / IPReg / Faculty Office / ICAEW probate headcount maps. Official ombudsman-scheme size and who-is-covered next to those regulator / profession lanes. Not another Risk reduction criminal-offence fork (CFA filled that at 12:55). Not another Market scenarios compulsory-pay fork (NMW/NLW filled that at 11:55). Not another Market discovery employment-population map (PAYE RTI filled that at 10:55). Not another Companies in the space membership / Find-a-Bookkeeper lane (ICB filled that at 09:55). Not a second Bar of NI / Faculty of Advocates / LSNI / Law Society of Scotland pass.

Legal Ombudsman homepage: https://www.legalombudsman.org.uk/ — HTTP 200
Who We Are: https://www.legalombudsman.org.uk/who-we-are/ — HTTP 200. Set up by the Office for Legal Complaints under the Legal Services Act; first complaints accepted 6 October 2010; covers most legal services in England and Wales; page line “Each year we resolve around 7,000 disputes”.
Named who-we-are/what-we-do: https://www.legalombudsman.org.uk/who-we-are/what-we-do/ — HTTP 404
Named who-we-are/about-us: https://www.legalombudsman.org.uk/who-we-are/about-us/ — HTTP 404
Named who-we-are/who-we-cover: https://www.legalombudsman.org.uk/who-we-are/who-we-cover/ — HTTP 404
Named for-consumers/who-we-cover: https://www.legalombudsman.org.uk/for-consumers/who-we-cover/ — HTTP 404
Named for-consumers/how-to-complain: https://www.legalombudsman.org.uk/for-consumers/how-to-complain/ — HTTP 404
How to complain (live): https://www.legalombudsman.org.uk/how-to-complain/ — HTTP 200
For consumers FAQs: https://www.legalombudsman.org.uk/for-consumers/faqs/ — HTTP 200
For legal service providers FAQs: https://www.legalombudsman.org.uk/for-legal-service-providers/faqs/ — HTTP 200
Common complaints / who we accept complaints about: https://www.legalombudsman.org.uk/information-centre/how-we-work/common-complaints/ — HTTP 200
Scheme Rules: https://www.legalombudsman.org.uk/who-we-are/corporate-publications/scheme-rules/ — HTTP 200
Data centre: https://www.legalombudsman.org.uk/information-centre/data-centre/ — HTTP 200
Complaints data index: https://www.legalombudsman.org.uk/information-centre/data-centre/complaints-data/ — HTTP 200
Legal Ombudsman 2025/26 annual complaints data and insight: https://www.legalombudsman.org.uk/information-centre/data-centre/complaints-data/legal-ombudsman-202526-annual-complaints-data-and-insight/ — HTTP 200. Period 1 April 2025 – 31 March 2026.
Reports and plans: https://www.legalombudsman.org.uk/who-we-are/corporate-publications/reports-and-plans/ — HTTP 200
OLC Annual Report and Accounts 2025/26 PDF (HC 414; ordered printed 2 July 2026): https://www.legalombudsman.org.uk/media/diln4zfi/olc-annual-report-and-accounts-2025-26-final.pdf — HTTP 200
For consumers hub: https://www.legalombudsman.org.uk/for-consumers/ — HTTP 200
For consumers complaints process: https://www.legalombudsman.org.uk/for-consumers/complaints-process/ — HTTP 200

Did not treat “complainants”, “regulated legal service providers”, “solicitors”, “barristers”, “residential conveyancing consumers”, or “ombudsman-scheme volume” as a FYJ customer. Did not invent a “FYJ for LeO complaints” product. Did not invent complaint volumes beyond what the 2025/26 data page and Annual Report print. Did not ask for a forbidden-market list. Did not retry STEP.org. Soft-404 / 404 pages are not live facts. The 07:55 Bar of NI pass was not re-opened as the same pages; this hour is the Legal Ombudsman complaints scheme itself, not a second Northern Ireland Bar headcount.

What stands

Who We Are (HTTP 200). Legal Ombudsman set up by the Office for Legal Complaints under the Legal Services Act. Two roles: resolve service complaints between consumers and legal service providers; share learning so providers improve complaint handling. First complaints accepted 6 October 2010. Covers most legal services in England and Wales. Page line: around 7,000 disputes resolved each year (approximate; superseded for precision by the 2025/26 annual figures below). Claims-management complaints sat with LeO January 2015 – April 2019 only.
Common complaints + consumer / provider FAQs (HTTP 200). Accepts complaints about regulated legal service providers including: solicitors; barristers; licensed conveyancers; costs lawyers; legal executives; notaries; patent attorneys; trade mark attorneys; and some accountants providing probate / legal services once authorised. Free to consumers. Eight-week first-tier window before LeO; refer within six months of final response and within one year of the problem (or of becoming aware) for referrals from 1 April 2023. Scheme Rules sit under Legal Services Act 2007. Funding mostly from the annual fee providers pay to their regulators; case fees may apply when a case is accepted.
2025/26 annual complaints data and insight (HTTP 200; 1 Apr 2025 – 31 Mar 2026). 14,259 new complaints received (+37% / +3,812 on 2024/25’s 10,447). 8,412 accepted (+16% on 7,203). 8,199 resolved (slight decrease on 8,270). Early resolution 4,218 (51%). Residential Conveyancing 36% of accepted (3,039); Wills and Probate 1,147 (14%); Personal Injury 1,140 (14%). Complaint types: poor communication 24%; delay / failure to progress 22%; failure to advise 19%. Evidence of poor service in 72% of assessed investigative outcomes; unreasonable first-tier complaint handling in 46%. 25% of consumers said they did not receive a final response from their provider. Remedies awarded £3,700,986 (~£3.7m). Immigration and Asylum accepted complaints +49% YoY (most pronounced proportional rise).
OLC Annual Report and Accounts 2025/26 PDF (HTTP 200; HC 414; ordered printed 2 July 2026). Same headline demand figures (more than 14,000 new complaints; +37%; 8,199 resolved). LeO covers most legal services in England and Wales; OLC and LSB are MoJ arm’s-length bodies. Gender-balance note on the staff report: 232 female staff and 109 male staff (checkable headcount line on that page; not a profession-roll count).
Named what-we-do / about-us / who-we-cover / for-consumers/how-to-complain paths are HTTP 404. Live how-to-complain is at /how-to-complain/ (HTTP 200).
These sit next to earlier Competitor mapping filings (SRA; CLC; CILEx; IPReg; BSB; CLSB; Faculty Office; ICAEW probate; Law Society of Scotland; Law Society of Northern Ireland; Faculty of Advocates; Bar of Northern Ireland). LeO is the official England-and-Wales complaints / ombudsman lane next to those regulator and profession headcounts. Complaint volumes and who-is-covered lists are checkable. They are not who FYJ is for. Not a path.

What does not stand

No page names a FYJ customer, market, offer, or P.
“Regulated legal service providers”, “complainants”, “residential conveyancing consumers”, or “ombudsman-scheme volume” are scheme / sector class labels, not a buyer.
A 14,259-received figure, an 8,199-resolved figure, a 3,039 residential-conveyancing share, or a £3.7m remedies total is not a FYJ market path.
Naming “FYJ for LeO complaints”, “complaint-handling for solicitors”, or “ombudsman-lane consumers” is not naming a FYJ customer.
Do not invent complaint volumes beyond what the 2025/26 data page and Annual Report print. Soft-404 / 404 pages are not live content.
This is a different official map from the 29 Aug 07:55 Bar of NI, 29 Aug 02:55 Faculty of Advocates, 28 Aug 22:55 Law Society of Northern Ireland, and 28 Aug 17:55 Law Society of Scotland regulator / profession headcounts. This hour is the Legal Ombudsman complaints scheme itself.
CFA (12:55), NMW/NLW (11:55), PAYE RTI (10:55), ICB (09:55), Bar of NI (07:55), EL insurance (06:55), IPA (05:55), Self Assessment (04:55), FTPF (03:55), Faculty of Advocates (02:55) remain prior filings. This hour does not re-file those pages.
STEP.org remains HTTP 403 and was not retried. ICB / bookkeepers.org.uk / www.icb.org.uk were not retried.
Tide Platform Ltd remains an ACSP identity check, not a FYJ customer.
Who / why / how / next all missing. 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 LeO / OLC pages fill a Competitor mapping cell (ombudsman-lane size and who-is-covered next to SRA / Law Society / BSB / Faculty / Bar of NI). 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. An ombudsman-scheme complaint volume, a who-we-cover list, and an England-and-Wales jurisdiction line are not a path. Adjacent regulator / profession headcounts still leave who / why / how / next empty.

Result

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

# Market-path research — 29 Aug 2026 13:55 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: Criminal Finances Act 2017 Part 3 / HMRC corporate offences for failing to prevent criminal facilitation of tax evasion / Tackling tax evasion guidance PDF / CFA 2017 Part 3 / ss.44–48 / S.I. 2017/739 reg. 3 / HMRC live CCO investigations FOI + HTML as at 30 Jun 2026 / self-reporting / original consultation / named tackling-tax-evasion-government-guidance / Part 3 /contents / named guidance-HTML / collection paths (404). Also did not repeat: GOV.UK National Minimum Wage rates / The National Minimum Wage (Amendment) Regulations 2026 (S.I. 2026/357) / LPC The National Minimum Wage in 2026 / National Minimum Wage employer overview / Minimum wage calculator for employers / Am I getting the National Minimum Wage / Pay and work rights / Employment status / Get ready to employ someone / Employ someone / National Minimum Wage Regulations 2015 / National Minimum Wage Act 1998 / named national-minimum-wage-calculator (404) / named national-minimum-wage-enforcement (404) / named national-minimum-wage-national-living-wage (404); HMRC/ONS joint Earnings and employment from Pay As You Earn Real Time Information, UK: August 2026 / GOV.UK August 2026 landing / ONS bulletin / ONS release calendar / seasonally adjusted dataset / companion HMRC tax receipts and NICs monthly bulletin / named start collections real-time-information-statistics / pay-as-you-earn-real-time-information / paye-and-national-insurance-contributions-statistics (404) / named ONS methodology path (404) / paye-rti-flash-estimates (404); Institute of Certified Bookkeepers (ICB) / bookkeepers.org.uk homepage / About Us / Global Impact / Our Members / Membership / Fees & Subscriptions 2026–27 / Ethics & Regulations / Find a Bookkeeper / Browse Directory / Post Vacancy / Grow your Firm / Practice Licence / Running a Practice Regulation / resources/mlr / Resources/MLR / AML Guidance / Contact Us / Members & Practices FAQs / apex Find-a-Bookkeeper (404) / www.icb.org.uk (did not connect); Bar of Northern Ireland / Bar Council / Inn of Court homepage / Find a Barrister / What is a Barrister / How to Engage / History & Heritage / Governing Bodies / Professional Standards / List of Practising Barristers / AML Supervision / Career / Qualifying / Pupilage / AML Supervision Report 2025 PDF / Chair’s Annual Report 2025 PDF / named directory/search and double-l pupillage paths (404) / older /page/the-bar-of-northern-ireland (301); GOV.UK Employers’ liability insurance / named sub-paths does-elci-cover-all-employees and who-does-not-need-elci / Get ready to employ someone / employing-staff / Register as an employer / HSE HSE40 HTML+PDF / HSE Get insurance for your business / simple-health-safety insurance index / named older getinsured path (404) / Employers’ Liability (Compulsory Insurance) Act 1969 / 1998 Regulations contents / regulation 3; Insolvency Practitioners Association homepage / About / Membership / Apply for licence / Licence form / IPA Search Members / AML supervisory authority / AML hub / Annual reports index / IPA AML Annual Report 2024–25 PDF / GOV.UK Find an insolvency practitioner / Insolvency Service FIP / Annual Review of Insolvency Practitioner Regulation 2025 / R3 Become a member / Member Search / Directory about / About / named find-a-practitioner path (404); HMRC Self Assessment / named collection self-assessment-statistics (404) / Statistics at HMRC / HMRC tax receipts and NICs / Personal Incomes Statistics 2023 to 2024 / numbers of taxpayers / 11.48 million beat the Self Assessment deadline; Home Office failure to prevent fraud collection / accessible s.204 guidance / Failure to Prevent Fraud Guidance English Language v1.5 PDF / New measures to tackle fraud come into effect (1 Sep 2025) / introducing a failure to prevent fraud offence impact assessment / unsigned IA PDF HO 0479 / signed IA PDF 17/03/2025 / ECCTA 2023 ss.199, 201, 204 / Schedule 13 / S.I. 2025/349 reg. 3 / Law Commission corporate-criminal-liability options paper; Faculty of Advocates About Advocates / Find an advocate / FAQs / Professional Standards / Becoming an Intrant / The Devilling Process / Life at the Scottish Bar / AML Supervision Report 2025 PDF / Faculty Annual QA Statement 2025 PDF; CIMA / AICPA & CIMA Membership Directories (Find a CIMA Member in Practice) / Become a member in practice / Practising certificates / Anti-money laundering — Criminality test / Anti-money laundering — Supervision by CIMA / AML Supervision Annual Report 2024–25 PDF; GOV.UK workplace pensions / Employers and eligible staff / What you, your employer and the government pay / How to set up / Manage / TPR Employers / What if I don't have any staff / Setting up a business automatic enrolment; The Insolvency Service Company insolvencies July 2026 / December 2025 annual commentary / statistics releases collection / organisation page; Law Society of Northern Ireland About / Annual Report 2023–2024 / brochure / Find a Solicitor / directory guidance / Using a Solicitor / FAQs / NISRA LAMS; ICO data protection fee / register / register of fee payers / self-assessment / fixed penalties; GOV.UK / HMRC Understanding off-payroll working (IR35) / CEST / Deemed employer / Off-payroll working for clients / ESM10006A; 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 AGM / trainee statistics / Find a Solicitor; Companies House late filing penalties / ECCTA 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; CIOT / ATT Find a Member; Making Tax Digital for Income Tax; ICAEW probate / oaths; Help to Grow / Growth Guarantee; HMRC Trust Registration Service; Innovate UK / UKRI / Smart Grants / Apply for innovation funding; ACCA Report on Regulation / Find an accountant; HMRC R&D Tax Credits Statistics September 2025; Faculty Office / Master of the Faculties notaries; confirmation statement / accounts / Corporation Tax deadline pages; HMRC tax-adviser ASA / MMTAR; VAT / PAYE employer pages as the same pages; HMRC EIS/SEIS 2026; Start Up Loans; OPBAS; CLSB Costs Lawyer; DBT BPE 2025; ACRA / CGIUKI; Insolvency Act 1986 s.388–390A reserved appointments; Companies House 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; Companies House register activities FYE 2026; CH/ECCTA IDV; CH DIY/WebFiling; Oxford 2020 SeedLegals; GOV.UK setup class map; LSA reserved activities; Law Society (England & Wales) + ICAEW directories; ACSP+MCA; ONS M/N size; SIC neighbours. Last hour’s CFA Part 3 pass was Risk reduction. Did not retry STEP.org. Did not retry ICB / bookkeepers.org.uk / www.icb.org.uk. Did not re-open last Competitor mapping’s Bar of Northern Ireland pages as the same pages. Area: Competitor mapping. Verdict: stayed thin. P unchanged. ## Searched Prefer Competitor mapping this hour (last filed 29 Aug 07:55 Bar of Northern Ireland) after Risk reduction filled at 12:55 with CFA 2017 Part 3. Unused official / public source: Legal Ombudsman (LeO) — complaints / ombudsman lane for regulated legal service providers in England and Wales (legalombudsman.org.uk / OLC under Legal Services Act 2007). Distinct from SRA / Law Society / BSB / Faculty / Bar of NI / CLSB / CLC / CILEx / IPReg / Faculty Office / ICAEW probate headcount maps. Official ombudsman-scheme size and who-is-covered next to those regulator / profession lanes. Not another Risk reduction criminal-offence fork (CFA filled that at 12:55). Not another Market scenarios compulsory-pay fork (NMW/NLW filled that at 11:55). Not another Market discovery employment-population map (PAYE RTI filled that at 10:55). Not another Companies in the space membership / Find-a-Bookkeeper lane (ICB filled that at 09:55). Not a second Bar of NI / Faculty of Advocates / LSNI / Law Society of Scotland pass. - Legal Ombudsman homepage: https://www.legalombudsman.org.uk/ — HTTP 200 - Who We Are: https://www.legalombudsman.org.uk/who-we-are/ — HTTP 200. Set up by the Office for Legal Complaints under the Legal Services Act; first complaints accepted 6 October 2010; covers most legal services in England and Wales; page line “Each year we resolve around 7,000 disputes”. - Named who-we-are/what-we-do: https://www.legalombudsman.org.uk/who-we-are/what-we-do/ — HTTP 404 - Named who-we-are/about-us: https://www.legalombudsman.org.uk/who-we-are/about-us/ — HTTP 404 - Named who-we-are/who-we-cover: https://www.legalombudsman.org.uk/who-we-are/who-we-cover/ — HTTP 404 - Named for-consumers/who-we-cover: https://www.legalombudsman.org.uk/for-consumers/who-we-cover/ — HTTP 404 - Named for-consumers/how-to-complain: https://www.legalombudsman.org.uk/for-consumers/how-to-complain/ — HTTP 404 - How to complain (live): https://www.legalombudsman.org.uk/how-to-complain/ — HTTP 200 - For consumers FAQs: https://www.legalombudsman.org.uk/for-consumers/faqs/ — HTTP 200 - For legal service providers FAQs: https://www.legalombudsman.org.uk/for-legal-service-providers/faqs/ — HTTP 200 - Common complaints / who we accept complaints about: https://www.legalombudsman.org.uk/information-centre/how-we-work/common-complaints/ — HTTP 200 - Scheme Rules: https://www.legalombudsman.org.uk/who-we-are/corporate-publications/scheme-rules/ — HTTP 200 - Data centre: https://www.legalombudsman.org.uk/information-centre/data-centre/ — HTTP 200 - Complaints data index: https://www.legalombudsman.org.uk/information-centre/data-centre/complaints-data/ — HTTP 200 - Legal Ombudsman 2025/26 annual complaints data and insight: https://www.legalombudsman.org.uk/information-centre/data-centre/complaints-data/legal-ombudsman-202526-annual-complaints-data-and-insight/ — HTTP 200. Period 1 April 2025 – 31 March 2026. - Reports and plans: https://www.legalombudsman.org.uk/who-we-are/corporate-publications/reports-and-plans/ — HTTP 200 - OLC Annual Report and Accounts 2025/26 PDF (HC 414; ordered printed 2 July 2026): https://www.legalombudsman.org.uk/media/diln4zfi/olc-annual-report-and-accounts-2025-26-final.pdf — HTTP 200 - For consumers hub: https://www.legalombudsman.org.uk/for-consumers/ — HTTP 200 - For consumers complaints process: https://www.legalombudsman.org.uk/for-consumers/complaints-process/ — HTTP 200 Did not treat “complainants”, “regulated legal service providers”, “solicitors”, “barristers”, “residential conveyancing consumers”, or “ombudsman-scheme volume” as a FYJ customer. Did not invent a “FYJ for LeO complaints” product. Did not invent complaint volumes beyond what the 2025/26 data page and Annual Report print. Did not ask for a forbidden-market list. Did not retry STEP.org. Soft-404 / 404 pages are not live facts. The 07:55 Bar of NI pass was not re-opened as the same pages; this hour is the Legal Ombudsman complaints scheme itself, not a second Northern Ireland Bar headcount. ## What stands - Who We Are (HTTP 200). Legal Ombudsman set up by the Office for Legal Complaints under the Legal Services Act. Two roles: resolve service complaints between consumers and legal service providers; share learning so providers improve complaint handling. First complaints accepted 6 October 2010. Covers most legal services in England and Wales. Page line: around 7,000 disputes resolved each year (approximate; superseded for precision by the 2025/26 annual figures below). Claims-management complaints sat with LeO January 2015 – April 2019 only. - Common complaints + consumer / provider FAQs (HTTP 200). Accepts complaints about regulated legal service providers including: solicitors; barristers; licensed conveyancers; costs lawyers; legal executives; notaries; patent attorneys; trade mark attorneys; and some accountants providing probate / legal services once authorised. Free to consumers. Eight-week first-tier window before LeO; refer within six months of final response and within one year of the problem (or of becoming aware) for referrals from 1 April 2023. Scheme Rules sit under Legal Services Act 2007. Funding mostly from the annual fee providers pay to their regulators; case fees may apply when a case is accepted. - 2025/26 annual complaints data and insight (HTTP 200; 1 Apr 2025 – 31 Mar 2026). 14,259 new complaints received (+37% / +3,812 on 2024/25’s 10,447). 8,412 accepted (+16% on 7,203). 8,199 resolved (slight decrease on 8,270). Early resolution 4,218 (51%). Residential Conveyancing 36% of accepted (3,039); Wills and Probate 1,147 (14%); Personal Injury 1,140 (14%). Complaint types: poor communication 24%; delay / failure to progress 22%; failure to advise 19%. Evidence of poor service in 72% of assessed investigative outcomes; unreasonable first-tier complaint handling in 46%. 25% of consumers said they did not receive a final response from their provider. Remedies awarded £3,700,986 (~£3.7m). Immigration and Asylum accepted complaints +49% YoY (most pronounced proportional rise). - OLC Annual Report and Accounts 2025/26 PDF (HTTP 200; HC 414; ordered printed 2 July 2026). Same headline demand figures (more than 14,000 new complaints; +37%; 8,199 resolved). LeO covers most legal services in England and Wales; OLC and LSB are MoJ arm’s-length bodies. Gender-balance note on the staff report: 232 female staff and 109 male staff (checkable headcount line on that page; not a profession-roll count). - Named what-we-do / about-us / who-we-cover / for-consumers/how-to-complain paths are HTTP 404. Live how-to-complain is at /how-to-complain/ (HTTP 200). - These sit next to earlier Competitor mapping filings (SRA; CLC; CILEx; IPReg; BSB; CLSB; Faculty Office; ICAEW probate; Law Society of Scotland; Law Society of Northern Ireland; Faculty of Advocates; Bar of Northern Ireland). LeO is the official England-and-Wales complaints / ombudsman lane next to those regulator and profession headcounts. Complaint volumes and who-is-covered lists are checkable. They are not who FYJ is for. Not a path. ## What does not stand - No page names a FYJ customer, market, offer, or P. - “Regulated legal service providers”, “complainants”, “residential conveyancing consumers”, or “ombudsman-scheme volume” are scheme / sector class labels, not a buyer. - A 14,259-received figure, an 8,199-resolved figure, a 3,039 residential-conveyancing share, or a £3.7m remedies total is not a FYJ market path. - Naming “FYJ for LeO complaints”, “complaint-handling for solicitors”, or “ombudsman-lane consumers” is not naming a FYJ customer. - Do not invent complaint volumes beyond what the 2025/26 data page and Annual Report print. Soft-404 / 404 pages are not live content. - This is a different official map from the 29 Aug 07:55 Bar of NI, 29 Aug 02:55 Faculty of Advocates, 28 Aug 22:55 Law Society of Northern Ireland, and 28 Aug 17:55 Law Society of Scotland regulator / profession headcounts. This hour is the Legal Ombudsman complaints scheme itself. - CFA (12:55), NMW/NLW (11:55), PAYE RTI (10:55), ICB (09:55), Bar of NI (07:55), EL insurance (06:55), IPA (05:55), Self Assessment (04:55), FTPF (03:55), Faculty of Advocates (02:55) remain prior filings. This hour does not re-file those pages. - STEP.org remains HTTP 403 and was not retried. ICB / bookkeepers.org.uk / www.icb.org.uk were not retried. - Tide Platform Ltd remains an ACSP identity check, not a FYJ customer. - Who / why / how / next all missing. 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 LeO / OLC pages fill a Competitor mapping cell (ombudsman-lane size and who-is-covered next to SRA / Law Society / BSB / Faculty / Bar of NI). 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. An ombudsman-scheme complaint volume, a who-we-cover list, and an England-and-Wales jurisdiction line are not a path. Adjacent regulator / profession headcounts still leave who / why / how / next empty. ## Result No path named yet. Competitor mapping stayed thin. P unchanged.