Virtual local authority meetings: Coronavirus Bill amended, ruling out uncertainty
As the world moves rapidly online, and we learn wonderful new words like Zoom and PowWowNow and discover weird new places like Teams,...
Closure of restaurants, cafes, pubs & other leisure venues: the Regulations.
The Health Protection (Coronavirus, Business Closure) (England) Regulations 2020 (SI 2020/327) (“the Regulations”) were made at 2pm...
What licence do you need to deliver alcohol?
“What licence do you need to deliver alcohol?” is a question that may be of sudden and urgent interest to many operators. The answer is...
R (Rehman) v Wakefield City Council - Court of Appeal on taxi licensing fees
Those with an interest in taxi licensing fee regimes (yes, they do exist) have been waiting for the Court of Appeal’s ruling in R (oao...
The Legend of the Phoenix
Here are the slides from my talk on Phoenix Companies delivered at Trinity Chambers' business and property seminar on 20 November 2019....
Life, the Universe and Everything: can sense be made of licensing fee regimes?
This article appears in the November 2019 issue of the Journal of Licensing. The Court of Appeal are due to hear the appeal in R (Rehman)...
The use and abuse of expert witness evidence in licensing
This article first appeared in the Journal of Licensing, October 2018 “Don’t take too seriously all that the neighbours say. Don’t be...
The Third Man - Costs against non-parties in Licensing Act 2003 appeals
Having posted my Journal of Licensing article on licensing costs on this blog yesterday, I am grateful to David Dadds of Dadds LLP...
Costs In Licensing Appeals
What follows is an article I wrote for the July 2019 issue of Journal of Licensing. I look at the principles underlying the award of...
Local control of taxi & PHV licensing
Here is the (very long) series of slide for a talk I delivered to the IOL - North-East meeting today.
