

Public Immunity Interest in Licensing
Here are the slides for a talk I recently delivered on Public Interest Immunity in Licensing.


Porky Pint
As I am giving a talk today on the judgment of Fordham J. in Porky Pint Ltd v Stockton on Tees Borough Council [2023] EWHC 128 (Admin) I...


Shisha regulation and licensing
As I will be talking on this subject at the IOL's National Training Conference on 18 November 2022, here is an article Richard Brown and...


Tidying up the Coronavirus, Restrictions Regulations: the law of unintended consequences
In this article, I look at how a “tidying up” amendment in the new All Tiers Regulations has removed an important obligation on the...


Coronavirus Law Resources
Because it dawned on me that I was continually resorting to Google searches, scrolls through WhatsApp chats and hunting the downloads...


The 3 Tier Covid-19 Regulations: Impact on Licensed Premises
Here's an article my colleague Gary Grant and I have written for the Local Government Lawyer on the 3 Tier regulations and their impact...


Track and trace; obligations of hospitality undertakings; North-East "lockdown"
A tsunami of fairly grim reading for the embattled licensed trade this afternoon, with the publication of a series of regulations under...
Uber v TfL
Gerald Gouriet QC and myself are representing the Licensed Taxi Drivers' Association as an interested party in the appeal brought by Uber...


Local authority costs and the indemnity principle - Re Eastwood applied.
The judgment of Mostyn J. in R (on the application of Kuznetzov) v. Camden LBC [2019] EHWC 3910 (Admin) escaped my notice when it came...


Pavement licensing under the Business and Planning Act 2020
The Business and Planning Act 2020 received Royal Assent on 22 July 2020. The pavement licensing provisions in sections 1-10 of the Act...