Licensing@aol.com
16-Nov-2006
Party with no music? Q We applied for an extension for a private party, which was granted, but we have now been told that because of residents'...
Licensing Act: one year on
15-Nov-2006
Councils are expressing their dissatisfaction with the Licensing Act and demanding further clarification from the government as soon as possible over...
Back to basics: conflict management
13-Nov-2006
VIOLENCE IN the workplace has become a high-profile subject. The Health & Safety Executive has highlighted the problem as being 'at an...
Legal advice: HSE publishes latest health and safety statistics
09-Nov-2006
The Health and Safety Commission published the latest health and safety statistics for 2005/06 in early November and they make sobering reading for...
Crime down since launch of Licensing Act
09-Nov-2006
THE FIRST hard indications that the Licensing Act is having a positive effect on crime are emerging, days away from the first anniversary of the new...
Judge tells FAPL to target the big fish
09-Nov-2006 By Iain O'Neil iain.oneil@william-reed.co.uk
A judge has called on the FA Premier League (FAPL) to stop prosecuting licensees and focus on the suppliers. District Judge Gillespie made his...
Licensing@aol.com
09-Nov-2006
Drinking-up at TEN Q What is the drinking-up time on a Temporary Event Notice (TEN)? A Interesting question. There isn't one. If you look at the...
06-Nov-2006
Solicitor hits out at Sky and the FAPL for waiting until the "eleventh hour" to drop charges.
02-Nov-2006
Judge clears licensee then says go after "real villains".
02-Nov-2006 By Peter Coulson
MA Legal expert Peter Coulson answers your questions about the trade.
02-Nov-2006 By The PMA Team
Paul Kinsey, the former First Leisure chief executive who runs nightclub company Nexum, claims police are taking longer to respond to calls than...
15-year-old becomes youngest ever qualified licensee
27-Oct-2006
While most people in the pub trade love youth and enthusiasm, a 15-year-old licensee is perhaps a step too far!Vicky Galey, a 15-year-old student...
26-Oct-2006 By Tony Halstead
A major step forward in the fight against alcohol-fuelled crime and disorder has been launched on Merseyside with instant pub-banning orders handed...
26-Oct-2006
Greene King IPA has become the official beer of English rugby in the brewer's second major sponsorship deal of the autumn. The brewer has already...
Europe's best in action again
26-Oct-2006 By Richard Ross
There's plenty of top-class football coming our way over the next seven days. The stand-out fixtures are on Tuesday and Wednesday of next week, when...
Licensing@aol.com
26-Oct-2006
Appointing a deputy Q Is there such a thing as a deputy DPS? Our local officer says that when I am away I should appoint someone to take over the...
Anger over calls to make loos go public
26-Oct-2006 By John Harrington john.harrington@william-reed.co.u
Licensees have reacted furiously to fears that pubs could be forced to open their loos to the public. Guild of Master Victuallers chairman Godfrey...
19-Oct-2006 By Peter Coulson
Peter Coulson holds his weekly surgery
19-Oct-2006 By Iain O'Neil
Two Portsmouth licensees who beat a prosecution for showing foreign satellite football last season have been caught in the act again. Derek Hopper of...
19-Oct-2006 By Iain o'Neil
Two Portsmouth licensees who beat a prosecution for showing foreign satellite football last season have been caught in the act again. Derek Hopper,...
Fence Gate Inn basks in banger success
18-Oct-2006
A Burnley pub has struck a blow for home made food by winning two out of three awards in the Best Pub Sausage category at the Foodservice Sausage of...
12-Oct-2006 By Peter Coulson
MA Legal expert Peter Coulson answers your questions.
Champions League resumes
12-Oct-2006 By Richard Ross
The UEFA Champions League returns to our screens with round three of the group stage. From the Premiership, Chelsea, Manchester United, Arsenal and...
12-Oct-2006
Alas! In spite of all the protestations and reassurances, it looks as if the gaming change-over is going the same way as alcohol licensing - late and...
12-Oct-2006 By John Harrington
Trade groups are demanding clearer guidelines on smoking shelters, Government regulation of councils and fairer fines when smoking is banned. They...
06-Oct-2006 By Tony Halstead
Tenants of the collapsed London & Edinburgh Swallow Group are advised to apply for urgent interim licence transfers to keep their pubs open.
05-Oct-2006 By Peter Coulson
MA legal expert Peter Coulson on the continuing licence fiasco
Back to basics: Are you a great licensee?
03-Oct-2006
You know a good pub licensee when you see one, but what makes a really great one? There may be many answers to this but someone who not only does...
Get set for rise in licence fees
28-Sep-2006
For many years the fee for an annual (then three-yearly) justices' licence was pegged at a modest level, because the licensed trade was not being...
Licensing@aol.com
28-Sep-2006
Licensees must check insurance QWe are hiring in some attractions for kids as part of the community gala day here which will raise funds for a local...
21-Sep-2006
Legal expert Peter Coulson answers your questions
21-Sep-2006 By Peter Coulson
It is very hard to look back four years and still understand why the British Institute of Innkeeping, among others, thought that moving licensing to...
21-Sep-2006 By Peter Coulson
There is no doubt that noise is going to be the issue of 2007. A new extension to the Noise Act, which comes into effect next month, is going to give...
20-Sep-2006
The Security Industry Authority (SIA) has, for the first time, revoked a doorman's SIA licence despite the absence of a criminal conviction.
Welsh ban "advocated by all parties
19-Sep-2006
Welsh Assembly ministers have been elaborating on their plans for a smoke ban in all enclosed public spaces in the country from April 2 2007 in...
London councils call for fairer licence fees
19-Sep-2006
Pubs and bars in the capital could face paying more for their licences if new proposals from the Association of London Government (ALG) are adopted...
Licensees hit by TV licence increases
18-Sep-2006
Landlords have been hit by a double-whammy price-hike with the news that the cost of a TV license is set to rise by around £30 to £162.Licensees...
Licensing@aol.com - Peter Couslon answers your Q's
14-Sep-2006 By Peter Coulson
Morning Advertiser legal expert Peter Coulson answers your legal queries.
E-pub - EPoS for the ordinary publican
12-Sep-2006
For years the vast majority of publicans have been powerless to do no more than gaze enviously at the fancy EPoS and back office systems introduced...
07-Sep-2006
Peter Coulson, the Morning Advertiser legal expert answers your licensing questions.
07-Sep-2006 By Ewan Turney
The FA Premier League (FAPL) has dropped three more cases against licensees showing Premiership football using foreign satellite systems. Solicitor...
07-Sep-2006
Peter Coulson and a team of industry experts try to answer the "closed period" football screenings battle that's raging
SPL court victory in foreign satellite case
07-Sep-2006 By John Harrington
The Scottish Premier League (SPL) has notched up its first- ever court victory against a licensee for showing foreign satellite football. The...
Pathfinder curtails Sky to save £1.5m
31-Aug-2006 By Lucy Britner and The PMA Team
Pathfinder, Wolves & Dudley's managed arm, is set to save more than £1.5m on subscription fees after removing Sky from 130 of its pubs. The move...
Licensing@aol.com
31-Aug-2006
Where residents can drink QWe were visited by police officers at 11.45pm last Friday, on their way back from supervising other pubs nearby. A couple...
Back to the ban
24-Aug-2006 By James Wilmore
The countdown has begun. In less than a year smoking will be banned in all pubs across England and Wales. Of course licensees are already facing up...
23-Aug-2006 By Ewan Turney
Blackburn Rovers FC has blamed dwindling attendance figures on pubs using foreign satellite systems to screen closed-period games. Rovers chairman...
17-Aug-2006 By John Harrington
The Government is considering plans to scrap newspaper ads as a way to highlight licence variations. NEW COMMENT
17-Aug-2006
A firm of London solicitors is offering to defend licensees against criminal prosecution for showing foreign satellite football. The firm,...
10-Aug-2006 By Peter Coulson
MA legal expert answers your questions
