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New Tools for Regulators
The Better Regulation Delivery Office (BRDO), which is part of the department of Business Innovation and Skills (BIS), has now made available a new online tool for the use of the Regulators of the leisure industry. The intention is to secu...
Basic good housekeeping always important!
It can be the easiest things which are overlooked! The recent successful prosecution of and resultant fine imposed on a Bristol area licensee over a series of ‘minor’ licensing transgressions reinforces the need for on-going and...
Premier League again 'targets' foreign football broadcasts
We are seeing reports of a renewed purge of licensees who are being targeted in a crackdown by the FA Premier League (FAPL) over foreign TV football broadcasts. Apparently the FAPL is pursuing civil lawsuits against several pubs across the U...
TV Licences
‘TV Licensing’, the Government Agency which administers and collects TV licence fees has confirmed that a single TV licence in most Public House situations is insufficient, this follows similar advice in October 2012 from agency i...
Enhanced criminal record checks - Court of Appeal ruling
A recent Court of Appeal ruling relating to enhanced criminal records disclosures is to be challenged by the Government. The case of R (app T) v Chief Constable of Greater Manchester and others concerned a number of appeals over information rev...
Protection of Pubs - BBPA to Judicially Review council decision
The British Beer & Pub Association is to seek a judicial review over Cambridge City Council’s interim planning policy guidance on the protection of pubs which was adopted in October 2012. The guidance sets out how applicants should just...