Dps

Legal checklist: Appointing a DPS

20-Mar-2013 By Poppleston Allen

While many of you will already have undertaken the appointment of a designated premises supervisor (DPS), the importance of the role can often be forgotten, with potentially damaging consequences.

Wetherspoon fined for lack of DPS

15-Jun-2010 By Lesley Foottit

JD Wetherspoon has been fined more than £3,000 by magistrates for not having a registered DPS at one of its North London pubs.

What's really in a name?

11-Sep-2009 By Peter Coulson

We all laughed or shrugged our shoulders when the Government announced — late in the day — that a new being was to be created under the Licensing...

Pubs warned to be on guard for licensing checks

01-Sep-2009 By Ewan Turney

Police licensing officers have more time on their hands to scrutinise licensing conditions and paperwork than ever before, a solicitor has warned....

Hosts are made "scapegoats

28-Aug-2008 By Tony Halstead

Trade concern is mounting at the way police and councils are targeting designated premises supervisors (DPSs) as a 'scapegoat' in tackling problem...

The riddles of the new Licensing Act

01-Mar-2007

There is no doubt that the Martians, if they landed, would find it difficult to believe that we could operate to the letter of our licensing laws....

Back to basics: the buck stops with your DPS

12-Oct-2006

Licensing reform has brought many new challenges into the working life of the publican, and at the centre of it all is a completely new role - that...

Massive: give us clear guidance on DPS role

16-Mar-2006 By Ewan Turney

The new licensing regime could disintegrate into a "bloody nightmare" unless clear guidelines are issued on the role of the designated premises...

Legal expert Peter Coulson discusses the big DPS mystery

09-Feb-2006 By Peter Coulson

The closure of pubs reported in this paper last week is as a result of poor drafting of the new Licensing Act - a fact which will become all too...

Supervisors' ball and chain can be cut free

10-Mar-2005

One of the major problems that already seems to be emerging from local authority interpretation of the new Licensing Act concerns the presence of the...