Lawyers hit back at unenforceable licensing conditions

Law firm Berwin Leighton Paisner (BLP) has criticised local authority licensing committees for attaching "vague and meaningless" conditions to licences. The law firm claims many of the conditions attached to licences are outside the guidance set down by the Licensing Act 2003. BLP associate director Jeremy Bark claimed more conditions than necessary where being imposed, and many of them were speculative measures against issues that might never arise.

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