Designated Premises Supervisor

West Midlands licensees admit illegal screenings of Sky Sports

25-Apr-2014 By James Wallin

Two West Midlands licensees have been fined for illegally showing Sky Sports football matches.

Wirral licensees ordered to pay over £14.5k for illegal Sky use

02-Oct-2013 By Michelle Perrett

Three individuals were ordered to pay over £14K in costs and fined following a prosecution by the Federation Against Copyright Theft (FACT) for showing Sky Sports programmes illegally.

Step forward for communities

17-Apr-2009 By Peter Coulson

The Department for Culture, Media & Sport measure aimed at helping village halls and community centres to allow alcohol sales at events, says Peter Coulson.

Problematic three strikes law

22-Nov-2007

News that a Northampton pub has fallen foul of the "three strikes" law with regard to under-age sales brings me back to the warning I gave at the...

Clubs caught out by new law

07-Jun-2007

While the new Licensing Act was going through its parliamentary stages, I drew attention to the different, more restricted status of what were then...

Licensing@aol.com

08-Feb-2007

Eject with care Q I have been told that you can still use force to eject someone from a pub but a friend in the trade has said that I could be in...

Simplification? Now that's a tricky one

21-Dec-2006

It was inevitable that the Department for Culture Media & Sport (DCMS) would claim, as part of the Prime Minister's strategy for all Government...

Licensee fined for showing foreign satellite football

28-Jun-2006 By Iain O'Neil

After suffering a high profile defeat in the courts yesterday Media Protection Services has today succesfully prosecuted a Lanchashire licensee for...

Simple solution to DPS problem

24-Mar-2006 By John Harrington

Hosts and police have come up with a simple solution to the problem of bars being closed in the absence of the Designated Premises Supervisor. NEW COMMENT

Restricting movement

29-Sep-2005

Q We have had no objections to our application to open until 2am instead of 1am, as at present, but the police have imposed certain conditions on our...

Can anybody solve the designation' puzzle?

24-Apr-2003

Last week, I talked about other people losing the plot. This week, it's me. Try as I will, I cannot get my head round the simple procedure of the...