Director registration changes will lead to fraud, say experts.

Upcoming changes to director registration at Companies House are a 'fraudsters' charter' and will make tracking down information of directors' previous companies more difficult, experts have warned.

From 1 October, the home addresses of directors registered at Companies House will no longer be publicly available and companies will instead be required to provide a 'service address' for public information.

The legislation comes after several incidents of harassment of company directors, most famously those of Huntingdon Life Sciences, where the directors of the research company were targetted by animal rights activists in a sustained terror campaign.

However, …