The Institute of Licensing is proud and delighted to announce the launch of the 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 3 issues per annum  and a cumulative index linking the issues together.

Institute Chairman, Jon Collins said:
“This new Journal will allow local practitioners to make judgements in a more informed way. It also serves as evidence of the Institute’s expertise as we engage with officials across Government. In so doing, we are better able to meet the first stated objective of the Institute as set out in our Memorandum and Articles of Association, namely “To advance the development, evaluation and recognition of professional skill, technical competency, ethical conduct and practical achievement in the field of licensing and regulatory activity; including their application in the public and private sectors and in the framing and enforcement of laws and regulations [relating to] licensing and regulatory objectives.”

The debut edition includes:

• Editorial Leo Charalambides
• Anatomy of the Live Music Bill Andrew Grimsey
• Simplifying and modernising cab law James Button
• Whither higher education licensing courses? Colin Manchester
• The dangers of temporary structures Julia Sawyer
• Opening hours Philip Kolvin QC
• Common approach to competency breakthrough for regulators Philip Preece
• Data protection and CCTV licensing conditions Sarah Clover and Michael Kheng
• IoL News Jim Hunter and Natasha Mounce
• More flexibility for gaming operators Nick Arron
• New regulation for circus animals Elliot Gold
• The Westminster licensing advice project Richard Brown
• Anonymous witnesses and licensing committees Gillian Crew
• Spotlighting the real story of safer late-nights Jon Collins
• The CGA statistical snapshot
• Member training – a luxury we must afford Andrew Eaton
• Book reviews
• Judicial Review: Law and Practice, Francis Patterson QC (ed)
• Trading Standards Law and Practice, Bryan Lewis MBE and Jonathan Kirk QC
• Club Law Manual (2nd edn) Kerry Barker and Henry Stevens

With the mix of articles, opinions, book reviews and Institute news, we are confident that this will firmly place the Institute’s journal of licensing in an unrivalled place in licensing practitioners’ references.

Our grateful 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 .

The Institute's Journal of Licensing is available to Institute members free of charge, with a set number of copies being provided to Organisations members as follows:

• Standard Organisation member - 1 copy
• Medium Organisation member - 2 copies
• Large Organisation member - 3 copies

Additional copies are available to Institute members at only £10.00 each (+ postage costs).

Non members may purchase the Journal for a fee of £70.00 (+ postage) which will include complimentary membership at the appropriate level for the remainder of that membership year (all memberships are renewable on 1st April annually).

To order copies, please email orders@instituteoflicensing.org