Licensing
Counter-terror training 'should be part of venue licence'
The BBC is reporting that licensing laws should be changed to require entertainment venues around the UK to undergo counter-terror training. Baroness Ruth Henig apparently told the Victoria Derbyshire programme that some venues did not ...
Rotherham to be handed back licensing responsibility
After an intervention by the Department for Communities and Local Government into Rotherham MBC it has now been proposed in a letter from the Secretary of State to return non-executive functions to the Council in relation to licensing (particularl...
Duty to declare Personal Licence - A reminder
On the 18th October Wrexham.com published an article which highlights the legal requirement for Personal Licence Holders to disclose the existence of their personal licence to a the Court when charged with a relevant offence. Section 128 of Licen...
Government Licensing Statistics published
The Home Office has published the latest figures detailing the statistics relating to Alcohol and Late Night Refreshment. The figures cover the period 31st March 2016 and show that since 31st March 2014 the following has occurred: there were 210,...
Upcoming APLH and ALP Courses in Sheffield
We have just released our course list for the rest of 2016, and the first half of 2017. The dates for the Award for Personal Licence Holders (APLH) that are being held in our Sheffield based training sweet are: Thu 24 November 2016 Wed 14 ...
Surprise retirement dinner for John Saunders QC
The “great and the good” of the legal licensing community (including our own John Gaunt) gathered last night (Thursday, 13 October) to throw a surprise retirement dinner for “formidable licensing advocate” John Saunders QC,...