Premises Licence

13 Jan 2023

A Busy Start to the New Year - Enforcement Action Seems to be on the Rise

On Monday the 9th of January two of the firm’s Partners, Christopher Grunert and Luke Elford, were separately involved in two Expedited Review hearings in Sheffield and Westminster, respectively. Luke’s Westminster hearing, which invol...

09 Jan 2023

Melton Mowbray Council - Another Cumulative Impact Policy is removed!

On 20th December the Full Council at Melton Mowbray met to consider the adoption of a new licensing policy for the period 2022-2027. It is reported that at the meeting the new draft policy was adopted. Perhaps the point of most interest to Opera...

08 Nov 2022

Government response to the post-legislative scrutiny of the Licensing Act 2003 follow up report

In 2017, the House of Lords Select Committee on the Licensing Act 2003 published its post legislative scrutiny report. The Government’s formal response followed later that year. Links to both can be found in our previous article here - 'Hou...

07 Nov 2022

Additional Bank Holiday for King Charles III Coronation - 8th May 2023

It was announced over the weekend that Monday 8th May 2023 will be a Bank Holiday to mark the coronation of King Charles III, which will take place on Saturday 6th May. This bank holiday will be in addition to the usual bank holiday Monday alread...

04 Oct 2022

Liverpool Consult on Removal of Late Night Levy

Liverpool commenced Consultation on Monday (3rd October) on whether to amend the Late-Night Levy Scheme which has been in place in its current format across the city since April 2017.  We have recently reported how Nottingham has voted to bri...

30 Sep 2022

Key dates for TENs for remainder of 2022

We can’t believe it is already the end of September – where has the time gone!?! Despite everything that is going on we are still approaching one of the busiest times of the year and a time when businesses might be thinking about givi...