by louis@instituteoflicensing.org | Mar 24, 2024 | Uncategorized
Tewkesbury Borough Council has successfully prosecuted two individuals for offences relating to licensing and operating of private hire vehicles. On Monday, 18 March 2024, Gareth Casey, owner of Casey’s Transfers, pleaded guilty to operating a private hire vehicle...
by louis@instituteoflicensing.org | Mar 22, 2024 | Uncategorized
In Hall and 57 Taxis Ltd v. York City Council (11 March 2024), District Judge (Magistrates’ Courts) Lower sitting at York Magistrates’ Court has allowed an appeal brought by a PHV operator against a decision of York City Council to impose conditions on an operator’s...
by louis@instituteoflicensing.org | Mar 22, 2024 | Uncategorized
Leading pub company and brewer, Greene King, has become the first hospitality business to achieve a nationwide Best Bar None accreditation, delivering best practice in customer and team members’ safety and welfare in all of its managed pubs. Best Bar None is...
by louis@instituteoflicensing.org | Mar 22, 2024 | Uncategorized
The Government has committed to a consultation on the impacts of the July 2023 High Court ruling in Uber Britannia Ltd v Sefton MBC. In correspondence to the Institute, a spokesperson for the DfT said: “The Spring Budget document included a commitment that the...
by louis@instituteoflicensing.org | Mar 19, 2024 | Uncategorized
The BBFC publishes its new Classification Guidelines, informed by its largest-ever public consultation. Throughout 2023, the BBFC spoke to 12,000 people across the UK to explore what matters most to audiences when it comes to classification. The research found people...
by louis@instituteoflicensing.org | Mar 18, 2024 | Uncategorized
Co-op Live, in Manchester, will become the UK’s largest live entertainment arena when it opens its doors on 23 April. The world-class, 23,500-capacity venue is located opposite Manchester City’s stadium, on the Etihad Campus. The new venue is a joint venture...
by louis@instituteoflicensing.org | Mar 18, 2024 | Uncategorized
A music venue at the centre of a three-year noise row will continue to open as a nightclub but with noise-limiting restrictions in place. The BBC reported that Night and Day Cafe was handed a noise abatement notice by Manchester City Council after those in an adjacent...
by louis@instituteoflicensing.org | Mar 18, 2024 | Uncategorized
Officers from Tarian Regional Organised Crime Unit (ROCU), working in partnership with the Gambling Commission, HMRC and Cardiff City Council Licensing, executed six warrants across Cardiff on Wednesday 28 February. The warrants followed intelligence that an illegal...
by louis@instituteoflicensing.org | Mar 18, 2024 | Uncategorized
The Institute has published its response to the Home Office’s consultation on the Terrorism (Protection of Premises) Bill Standard Tier consultation. Members can read the IoL’s response here.
by louis@instituteoflicensing.org | Mar 14, 2024 | Uncategorized
Four taxi drivers have been ordered to pay a total of over £6,000 for illegally plying for hire at Henley Regatta. Tahir Mehmood Awan, 53, of Shepherds Close, Hurley, Maidenhead, pleaded guilty to unlawfully plying for hire at Henley on 30 June 2023. At a hearing at...
