Licensing
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Rodger Vickers has been named the independent chairman of the new Pub Independent Conciliation and Arbitration Service (PICAS) Panel. Vickers has had a long career as a chartered surveyor solely involved in licensed and leisure property and is a practice consultant at Brownill Vickers...
Posted: 01 February 2012 | 10:56
A Chinese restaurant in Greenwich has been handed a record fine of £54,000 and its owners have been banned from running restaurants in the future after it failed to clean up its act. The Peninsula restaurant, 85 Bugsbys Way, SE10 pleaded guilty in Woolwich Crown Court to 18 breaches of food hygiene...
Posted: 23 January 2012 | 13:24
MPs have backed a House of Commons motion which requires the Government to commission an independent review of self regulation in the pub sector. The move came after a debate in the Commons today in which MPs criticised the Government for rejecting proposals by the Business Innovation and Skills Committee...
Posted: 12 January 2012 | 16:49
Two West Yorkshire licensees have been fined £17,000 for showing Sky Sports programmes illegally at their premises. Angela Briscoe and Edward Geater of the Bold Privateer in Shipley, West Yorkshire were fined following a successful prosecution by the Federation Against Copyright Theft...
Posted: 30 November 2011 | 15:04
The Government is today expected to respond to a call from a committee of MPs to introduce statutory codes of practice for pub companies. In September, the Business Innovation and Skills Committee said it was time for the Government to act, and slammed the industry's slow approach to reform...
Posted: 24 November 2011 | 09:55
The coalition government has now pushed through laws to tighten up licensing in an effort to deal with antisocial behaviour. Matthew Phipps explains what this means for licence holders
Posted: 07 November 2011 | 11:25
The British Beer and Pub Association (BBPA) has welcomed a decision by music licensing company PPL to defer action on plans for huge fee rises in its Specially...
Posted: 31 October 2011 | 15:38
A director of a London hotel has been ordered to pay £690 by magistrates for not having a television licence. Marion Ruffy was fined £525 for having...
Posted: 31 October 2011 | 12:23
The British Beer & Pub Association (BBPA) has urged the government to "stick to its guns" on planning reform that could result in less red tape for pubs that want to make minor modifications to premises...
Posted: 27 October 2011 | 16:04
Pubs, rather than supermarkets and off licences, are still the hardest hit by beer tax rises. That's according to new research from the British Beer...
Posted: 25 October 2011 | 11:31
Live music can pull in the punters on a good night, but beware, the wrong kind of music can put your customers off and send them to your rival down the road. Selwyn Parker tells you how to get your tills singing
Posted: 14 October 2011 | 10:57
The Government could extend opening hours for pubs and bars during the Queen's Diamond Jubilee weekend, Home Secretary Theresa May has said. Under...
Posted: 12 October 2011 | 15:03
The Association of Licensed Multiple Retailers (ALMR) has warned that today's ruling by the European Court of Justice on screening football in pubs is not...
Posted: 04 October 2011 | 11:49
Tied publicans are much more likely to say they are struggling financially and also earn significantly less than non-tied operators. That is one of the conclusions in a report by the Institute of Public Policy Research (IPPR)...
Posted: 30 August 2011 | 11:59
In this week's Caterer and Hotelkeeper magazine...
How James and Caroline Parsons at the Nothe Tavern in Weymouth are preparing for the spike in trade that next year's Olympic sailing events will bring...
Posted: 24 August 2011 | 17:06
Licensed businesses in Scotland have been urged to remember a change in the law from 1 October, which means they must ask for ID from anyone who appears...
Posted: 23 August 2011 | 11:06
The number of restaurants, bars, pubs and night clubs having their licences reviewed has increased by 19% over the last year, fuelled by police requests. That's the finding from legal information provider Sweet & Maxwell.
Posted: 16 August 2011 | 10:46
Pub and nightclub groups have expressed their dismay at proposals to increase fees for playing music at discos and nightclubs by 10 to 20 times. The British Beer and Pub Association (BBPA) and nightclub group Noctis...
Posted: 22 July 2011 | 12:21
Three pubs have been fined a total of £2,480 in the past week for not having a TV licence. The owner of the Insole Arms in Cardiff was given the maximum fine of £1,000 while the publicans at the Royal Oak in Llanelli and the Oak Inn in Walsall...
Posted: 13 July 2011 | 11:23
If your business does not have the correct planning permission, or the nature of the operation changes, you could find yourself in hot water. Legal expert Debra Kent explains how to stay on the right side of the law
Posted: 07 June 2011 | 13:55
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