Licensing solicitors

Licensing applications must be advertised both on the premises, on the local authority website and in the local newspaper. This gives the opportunity to people to object. Any person or business can object to a Licensing application regardless of their geographical proximity to the premises.

Applications are also served to what are known as responsible authorities such as the Police, Trading Standards, Planning, Environmental Health, and Child Protection, and they also have the opportunity to object.

If objections are received, then it is possible that they can be resolved before the matter comes to a hearing before a panel of councillors to resolve any outstanding objections.

1. Sale of alcohol
2. Late night refreshment (hot food or drinks sold between 23.00 and 05.00).
3. Regulated entertainment – in most cases this will be live or recorded music after 23.00.  Before 23.00 in most cases this is deregulated except for larger events.
4. Films
5. Plays
6. Indoor sporting events

The Licensing Act 2003 sets out these primary objectives:

• Prevention of Crime and Disorder
• Prevention of Public Nuisance
• Protection of Children from Harm
• Public Safety

The most common is a temporary event notice which will enable you to perhaps carry out licensable activities at a site other than that which is licensed or to carry it out for a longer period of time.

You do not need a personal licence to be a bar manager. However, every premises must have a designated premises supervisor who has to hold a personal licence. They need not necessarily be the manager, but they are the person who accepts day-to-day responsibility for licensable activities at the premises.

No, they don’t. However, they should always leave written authority to staff who are on site to sell alcohol on their behalf.

To download our free templates of written authority, use the links below:

• Authority to sell alcohol (England & Wales)
• Authorisation to sell alcohol (Scotland)

Personal licences now last indefinitely unless they are suspended or revoked. Initially they were meant to last for ten years, and many personal licences will have a ten-year expiry date on them because they were granted before the legislation was changed to make them indefinite.

A premises licence lasts usually last indefinitely unless it is revoked or suspended. Some premises licences however can be granted for a limited period of time.

Yes, you can. It is not always advisable, and the Police may object, but it can quite often happen particularly as a short-term measure.

This will rather depend on the conditions of your premises licence, which may well say that you should display such posters. Every premises, however, must have an age verification policy and it may be that your policy requires the display of these notices.