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The Institute is actively engaging with the Government at every opportunity and ensuring that we are able to respond to consultations, relaying the views of our members, or where this is not possible, ensuring that we accurately portray who has been involved in shaping the response.
We are keen to set up specialist panels to assist in responding to consultations. We know already from our Taxi Working Party, that a small group of people with an interest in a specific area of licensing can work together effectively coordinating the consultation response, and identifying issues with existing and proposed legislation.
Many thanks to everyone who has volunteered to sit on a panel!We have had a overwhelming response and will now look to select members for each of our panels looking at Alcohol & Entertainment, Gambling, Miscellaneous Licensing and Taxis. We will let everyone know the position as soon as possible.
The Institute of Licensing is delighted to announce the re-establishment of the National Licensing Forum on 24th November 2011.
The original forum played a valuable role in informing licensing policy development, implementation and compliance for much of the 1990s and the first half of the last decade. Since the Licensing Act 2003 went live in November 2005 however, the forum had fallen into disuse.
Given the on-going importance of licensing and the high profile nature of related problems, the Institute of Licensing initiated the re-establishment of the forum with the intention of once again providing the opportunity for discussion between representative groups in relation to licensing issues.
We believe the forum has an essential role to play in:
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The Institute of Licensing’s National Training Event (NTE) for 2011 has been a sell out this year with over 230 delegates attending over the three days.
The un-matched line up of speakers and topics, included former Home Secretary Jacqui Smith talking alongside Philip Kolvin QC on Legislative Reform, Philip Kolvin QC speaking on the Police Reform and Social Responsibility Act 2011, Harvey Vasey representing the DCMS on the Schedule One consultation on potential deregulation of regulated entertainment, Susanna FitzGerald QC and Sarah Clover (No 5 Chambers) looking at relevant Case Law, Gary Grant (Barrister at Francis Taylor Buildings) and many more...
The NTE this year benefitted from excellent sponsorship arrangements, and our thanks to those sponsors who made it possible, in particular No. 5 Chambers who were the main event sponsors - the time and continued hard work from Sarah Clover has gone a long way to ensuring that the NTE was the biggest and best of the IoL training events to date!
Speaking at the event, Institute Chairman Jon Collins paid tribute to Philip Evans and Philip Kolvin on their awards, and to the team responsible for the creation of the Journal of Licensing Law. Referring to the event itself, Jon said: “In the current economic climate and with the particular challenges facing both the licensing community and the wider public sector, it is testament to the skills, experience and enthusiasm of the Institute’s team and supporters that this year’s NTE is stronger than ever. The quality and breadth of speakers combined with lively and informed debate amongst members to leave all attendees well briefed to engage in licensing matters be they operator or regulator.”
With thanks to our sponsors:
We are delighted to announce the awarding of Fellowship to Councillor Philip Evans, and Companionship to Philip Kolvin QC. Both awards are so very well deserved and were presented by Institute Chairman Jon Collins, with Philip’s award co-presented by Jon and Institute President James Button.
In addition, it gives us great pleasure to announce the appointment of Philip Kolvin QC as Patron to the Institute of Licensing. Philip was keen to remain involved when he took the decision to stand down as Institute Chairman, and we were delighted to accept his offer of continued support in this role.
Read the full stories:
· Councillor Philip Evans achieves Fellowship of the Institute of Licensing
· Philip Kolvin QC to be Companion and Patron of the Institute of Licensing
The Institute is also delighted to announce the presentation of the first ‘Jeremy Allen Award’ which was awarded and presented to Alan Lynagh from Westminster Council by Poppleston Allen at the National Training Event Gala Dinner last night.The award is a tribute to the life and professional career of Jeremy Allen,, whose dedication to partnership working and best practice in licensing made him one of the most respected and popular figures in the industry. Jeremy sadly passed away shortly after becoming chair of the Institute of Licensing, and we were pleased and proud to support this award by Poppleston Allen as a tribute to him.Read the full story:
The Institute of Licensing is proud and delighted to announce the launch of our professional journal for licensing.The ‘Journal of Licensing’ is the result of many months of careful planning, unrivalled contributions from well known and respected leaders in the field of licensing and the fruition of the Institute’s goal to produce a professional reference journal.Free to Institute members, this will be a regular publication with three issues per annum. Our thanks to all who have contributed to this edition including all authors, reviewers and sponsors. Our particular thanks to Leo Charalambides, Natasha Mounce and Julia Sawyer who have made the journal possible through their significant hard work and efforts .Read more about the Journal of Licensing
The Institute of Licensing is proud and delighted to announce the launch of our professional journal for licensing.
The ‘Journal of Licensing’ is the result of many months of careful planning, unrivalled contributions from well known and respected leaders in the field of licensing and the fruition of the Institute’s goal to produce a professional reference journal.
Free to Institute members, this will be a regular publication with three issues per annum.
Our thanks to all who have contributed to this edition including all authors, reviewers and sponsors.
Our particular thanks to Leo Charalambides, Natasha Mounce and Julia Sawyer who have made the journal possible through their significant hard work and efforts .
Read more about the Journal of Licensing
The second edition includes important new material:
One of our key objectives is to publish news and stories relating to licensing practise and related matters - good initiatives, government proposals, court cases or more personal stories.If you have a story to share, email us at news@instituteoflicensing.org. (For other communications with the Institute of Licensing, please visit our Contacts page). Whilst we can't guarantee to publish every story, we will always be interested!