Legal

UKH and BBPA to fight ‘frankly outrageous’ £49m music fee hike

14-Jun-2019 By Stuart Stone

UKHospitality (UKH) and the British Beer & Pub Association (BBPA) are to refer the increase in recorded music tariffs to the Copyright Tribunal for independent review.

How much do pub staff police the streets?

14-Jun-2019 By Robert Mann

Operators, especially those with multiple sites, are spending big to ensure customer safety, on door staff as well as CCTV focusing on the streets outside. With police funding under constant pressure, who is really policing our streets?

Avoid these five legal breaches

10-Jun-2019 By Emily Hawkins

Regularly selling alcohol to underage customers and illegally employing workers practices are among the most problematic situations for site operators that can land them in prison, according to expert licensing solicitors.

Legal Q&A: summary reviews and noise complaints

10-Jun-2019 By Poppleston Allen

The latest legal Q&A from specialist licensing solicitors Poppleston Allen covers summary reviews and noise complaints.

Top tips: safeguarding your premises licence

10-Jun-2019 By Poppleston Allen

Sadly, stories of insolvency within the licensed trade continue and show little signs of slowing.

Are wet-led pubs back on the rise?

10-Jun-2019 By Poppleston Allen

As several recent headlines indicate that wet-led offers may be back on the rise, specialist licensing solicitors Poppleston Allen consider what operators looking to change from dining to wet-led should be aware of

Podcast

The Legal Surgery: What’s an acceptable form of ID?

10-Jun-2019 By Ed Bedington

The legal issues around running a pub can be complex and challenging, but thankfully for readers, and listeners, to The Morning Advertiser, help is on hand.

BPC labels dilapidations group ‘wholly inappropriate’

10-Jun-2019 By Emily Hawkins

A row has erupted over the representatives appointed to a new group investigating the management of dilapidations under the pubs code.

My shout

Doing a U-turn on the tenanted sector

10-Jun-2019 By Mark Robson

The leased and tenanted side of the pub industry has fragmented much over recent years and groups are far more in tune with the needs of modern pub goers, according to Red Mist Leisure MD and BII chair Mark Robson.

Welsh inn reopens after 230k revamp

07-Jun-2019 By Emily Hawkins

A family-run pub in the Snowdonia National Park has reopened following a £230k refurbishment.

More opportunities for prisoners to work in pubs after rule changes

07-Jun-2019 By Emily Hawkins

Pubcos have welcomed rule changes meaning they will be able to offer prisoners more work and training opportunities.

Investigation after Fuller's bouncer seen kicking homeless man

05-Jun-2019 By Emily Hawkins

Fuller’s has asked its security firm to investigate after a video showing one of its door staff kicking and chasing a homeless man outside one of its London pubs drew criticism.

Licensees rack up £30k in illegal broadcast fines

03-Jun-2019 By Nicholas Robinson

Courts ruled three licensees must each pay £10,000 in damages for illegally screening Sky Sports programming in their premises.

UK Hospitality bangs battle drum louder one year in

03-Jun-2019 By Nicholas Robinson

Following its creation last year, UK Hospitality has pledged to fight harder than ever for the trade as chief executive Kate Nicholls outlines the industry’s strengths in an anniversary statement.

Migration reform ‘needs to go further’ to support hospitality

31-May-2019 By Emily Hawkins

Recommendations to relax migration restrictions for jobs with skills shortages would not do enough to help the hospitality sector, trade bodies have claimed.