Assault

Regular pub binge drinkers 'more likely' to be violent

22-Aug-2017 By James Beeson

People who admit to regularly binge drinking at the pub are more prone to have acted violently in the past 12 months, according to new research.

Legal advice: How record keeping can pay off

01-Feb-2017 By Poppleston Allen

Our legal experts look at how being properly on top of paperwork and training can avoid a potentially sticky situation.

Legal Q&A: Opening a cinema club and assault charges

24-Oct-2014 By Poppleston Allen

This week's legal Q&A asks what you should do regarding personal licences and being charged with assault, and the legal issues regarding a paid-for cinema club in your pub.

National Pubwatch in attack concern

07-Jul-2011 By Adam Pescod

The chairman of National Pubwatch has raised concern that licensees are being seen "as part of the problem" when they are assaulted in their...

Going beyond the law's intentions?

10-Jun-2011 By Peter Coulson

Far be it from me to jump to conclusions, but it may be that sometimes the police use the provisions of the Licensing Act in a slightly dubious way....

Pubwatch success on tougher sentencing

17-Mar-2011 By Ewan Turney

National Pubwatch has secured a crucial success in helping to gain tougher sentencing for thugs who attack licensees or bar staff. New guidelines...

MPs want action on pub staff assaults

28-Jan-2011 By Matt Eley Matt

A campaign that calls for assaults on pub staff to be treated more seriously by the courts has been given backing by an influential committee....

Pubwatch: licensees need same protection as nurses

28-Oct-2010

Licensees should be given the same level of protection from assault as nurses, according to the group National Pubwatch. The group, which supports...

Plea for tougher action on pub staff assaults

27-Oct-2010 By John Harrington

National Pubwatch is calling for tougher sentencing guidelines to ensure people who assault pub staff receive appropriate penalties.

Cautions for staff attacks are 'scandalous'

12-Feb-2010 By John Harrington

A pub company boss has hit out at the Government for saying cautions are sometimes acceptable for attacks on bar staff. The Government was...

Pubwatch urges Straw to get tough on pub thugs

26-Jan-2010 By Gemma McKenna

National Pubwatch chairman Steve Baker has urged Justice Secretary Jack Straw to get tougher on thugs who assault licensees when reviewing how cases...

Cautions review gets cautious welcome

11-Nov-2009 By Matt Eley Matt

A review of the cautions system must take into account the individual circumstances of attacks on licensees, according to National Pubwatch. Steve...

Anger as violent attack on licensee goes unpunished

29-Apr-2009 By Matt Eley Matt

Police are being urged to re-open a case after a thug who headbutted a licensee walked away without being charged. Andrew Goodall, licensee of the...

Outrage over caution for licensee attack

11-Dec-2008 By Gemma McKenna

A Lancashire licensee, victim of an alleged brutal assault in his own pub, is outraged after his underage attacker was let off with a reprimand. The...

Smoke ban attack host furious at assault trial delays

03-Jul-2008 By Joe Lutrario

A furious Bolton licensee, attacked policing the smoke ban, has written to Gordon Brown criticising the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) for "unnecessary delays" in an assault case.

Pete Robinson: Nick Hogan's £10,000 fine in perspective

30-Jan-2008

He said afterwards: "I think the financial penalty is extortionate considering the offence. If I was a drug dealer doing small amounts of cocaine I...

Licensing@aol.com

07-Jun-2007

Declaring a personal licence Q When I was in court recently as a witness, I saw an ex-colleague who was charged with an offence involving assault. I...

Crime down since launch of Licensing Act

09-Nov-2006

THE FIRST hard indications that the Licensing Act is having a positive effect on crime are emerging, days away from the first anniversary of the new...

What the Sunday papers said

11-Sep-2005

The new licensing legislation will fuel the incidence of rape and murder, according to an internal police report. Cases of murder, rape, physical...

Youth accused of murdering Punch host

11-Aug-2005

An 18-year-old youth has been charged with murder following the death of licensee Bob Todd near his pub in Pucklechurch, Gloucestershire, last...

Pub owner on attempted murder charge

14-Jul-2005

A Kent pub owner appeared at Maidstone Crown Court last week accused of attempting to murder his wife. At a brief hearing, Phillip Cowell, a property...

75 convictions leads to three-year ban

07-Oct-2004

A serial troublemaker has been banned from entering any pub in Norwich city centre for three years after racking up 75 convictions. Stuart Andrews,...

Pub pair's terror ordeal

27-Nov-2003

Two pub workers were beaten and locked in a cellar after three men wearing balaclavas and wielding baseball bats raided a Berkshire pub in what's...

Doorman stabbed

11-Sep-2003

A doorman was stabbed outside a Derbyshire pub after he refused entry to four men in the early hours of Sunday. A fight broke out at around 12.40am...