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LGA and CIPFA Consultation on Locally Set Fees
The Institute of Licensing is reporting that the Local Government Association (LGA) and CIPFA (the Chartered Institute of Public Finance and Accountancy) have launched a local authority consultation on locally set fees. They have jointly wr...
Best Bar None Sheffield 2016
We have been delighted to have sponsored the Sheffield BBN for another year, which reaches its climax with the annual awards ceremony on Thursday evening - which we will be attending and indeed presenting at least one award. Congratulations to th...
Gaming - Local Risk Assessments go live 6th April 2016
With effect from 6th April 2016 the updated social responsibility code 10.1.1. will take effect which reads: Licensees must assess the local risks to the licensing objectives posed by the provision of gambling facilities at each of their premises...
Pump and Boneyard, Shoreditch - appeal
Philip Kolvin QC (Cornerstone Barristers) has kindly alerted us to this interesting case on which he was involved. The facts of the case read a bit like a best-selling novel but the decision before the magistrates last week on appeal was also reve...
Essence Bars (London) Ltd (or was it?!) -v- Royal Borough of Kingston upon Thames - an Appeal Court decision
On Tuesday (3/2/16) the Court of Appeal published their judgment following a hearing and submission in December. The case concerned an Appeal against a decision of Royal Borough of Kingston upon Thames (‘the Licensing Authority’...
PPL and PRS to 'combine'?
PRS for Music and PPL have announced a proposal to create a new joint venture company to handle all public performance licensing for the UK. The two licences currently required by businesses playing music in public – one from PRS for the us...