{"id":9079,"date":"2024-05-18T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2024-05-18T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/instituteoflicensing.org\/news_archive\/2024\/05\/18\/nightclub-brings-high-court-challenge-after-licence-revoked-at-remote-hearing\/"},"modified":"2024-05-18T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2024-05-18T00:00:00","slug":"nightclub-brings-high-court-challenge-after-licence-revoked-at-remote-hearing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/instituteoflicensing.org\/news_archive\/nightclub-brings-high-court-challenge-after-licence-revoked-at-remote-hearing\/","title":{"rendered":"Nightclub brings High Court challenge after licence revoked at remote hearing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A nightclub in Catford, south-east London, has appealed against the revocation of its premises licence in November 2022 by the Licensing Committee of the London Borough of Lewisham. Among the grounds of appeal is a challenge to Lewisham\u2019s use of Microsoft Teams to conduct the hearing.<\/p>\n<p>In April 2023, District Judge Abdel-Sayed ruled in Lewisham\u2019s favour, agreeing with the Council that <a href=\"https:\/\/cornerstonebarristers.com\/remote-licensing-hearings-are-lawful-judge-confirms\/\">remote hearings were permitted<\/a> under the Licensing Act 2003 and the Licensing Act (Hearings) Regulations 2005.<\/p>\n<p>The nightclub issued an appeal by case stated against the District Judge\u2019s decision, which is due to be heard by the High Court on 15 May 2024.<\/p>\n<p>This was the first time the senior courts have considered this issue and the ruling will affect every licensing authority in England. <\/p>\n<p>The High Court reserved its judgement and we will report on the judgement in due course.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The High Court has this week (15 May) heard a challenge being brought by a nightclub in south-east London to a licensing authority\u2019s use of remote hearings.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9079","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"modified_by":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/instituteoflicensing.org\/news_archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9079","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/instituteoflicensing.org\/news_archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/instituteoflicensing.org\/news_archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/instituteoflicensing.org\/news_archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/instituteoflicensing.org\/news_archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9079"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/instituteoflicensing.org\/news_archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9079\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/instituteoflicensing.org\/news_archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9079"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/instituteoflicensing.org\/news_archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9079"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/instituteoflicensing.org\/news_archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9079"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}