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Prosecution for sales to drunks
It may be of interest to those in the licensed trade of the details given to Parliament last week on the number of prosecutions in England and Wales for the sale of alcohol to someone who is drunk. Please see below: Defendants proceeded ...
Licensing Act 2003 - Amendments to Application forms
The Licensing Act 2003 (Forms) (Amendment) Regulations 2013 will come into force on 21st March 2013 in order to amend the application forms for: premises licence variations; premises licence minor variations; and club premises ce...
DCMS - Live Music Act Guidance
Last week, the DCMS has recently published a useful summary of the legal status of live music following the introduction of the Live Music Act 2012. This activity has now been deregulated in a range of circumstances from whi...
Minor Variations - Procedure - Reminder
Just a reminder and a heads up that minor variations do require advertisement on site for the requisite period of 10 working days (white, not blue paper!). We are hearing of at least one Authority who - if the notice is not displayed appr...
Reasons-to be cheerful...?
The importance of Licensing Sub-Committees providing reasons for their decisions has been re-confirmed following the case of Little France Ltd -v- Ealing London Borough Council when, following an Appeal by way of case stated to the High Court, the...
Revised Guidance on persistent sale of alcohol to the under aged
We are grateful to Peter Coulson for alerting us to the issue of this revised Guidance. This in part follows revised guidance on the conduct of test purchases (see our article - 'New age restricted code of practice') but more particularly the inc...