The IoL's National Training Day will be held at St Albans City and District Council Offices on Tuesday 4th June 2013.

CPD Accreditation
With a packed agenda, this event will carry 5 hours CPD (accredited under the Solicitors Regulation Authority and subject to confirmation, the Bar Standards Board).

SRA CPD Ref: LGLF/CPC

Topics include the regulation of 'chuggers', approaches to Under Age Sales enforcement, and a Case Law Update. We will also be holding our annual AGM at this meeting together with an update on what National IOL have been doing.

THIS EVENT OFFERS TWO HOURS OF CONTINUING PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT (CPD)

The Training

The Institute is providing training for All Parties at a Licensing Hearing in June 2013.

The training will be held in 10 locations and will be delivered by Barristers from Francis Taylor Buildings, namely Gary Grant and Leo Charalambides.

The courses are aimed at providing training opportunities for all parties involved in licensing hearings including:

• New and experienced licensing committee members
• Licensing committee legal advisors
• Licensing officers
• Licensing Service Managers
• Responsible authority officers including:
- Police
- Environmental Health
- Trading Standards
- Fire Officers
- Health Bodies
• Licensing officers
• Committee clerks
• Private practice lawyers
• Licensing consultants

This event will carry 4.5 hours CPD. (Law Society Ref: LGLFCPC)

This training day sums up the changes that have been made to the Licensing Act 2003 since it came in, and the changes that are still to come.

We will be looking at the good, the bad and the ugly of the Police Reform and Social Responsibility Act, the new Alcohol Strategy, Early Morning Restriction Orders, the Late Night Levy and the deregulation of entertainment.

Speakers are Jeremy Phillips (General Editor of Paterson's Licensing Acts and Barrister at Francis Taylor Building), Jonathan Smith (Managing Partner at Poppleston Allen), Gary Grant (Barrister at Francis Taylor Building), Susanna Fitzgerald QC of One Essex Court and Nigel Connor (Head of Licensing & Regulatory Law for JD Wetherspoon).

This Event Offers 4.5 CPD hours. The Institute is registered with the Solicitors Regulation Authority. (CPD reference:- LGLF/CPC).

This event is aimed at Licensing Officers, Members, Police Officers, lawyers, the licensed trade and any other persons who deal with alcohol licensing and the night time economy. The aim is to raise awareness of the past and forthcoming legislative changes affecting alcohol licensing and to highlight some of the potential pitfalls.

The IoL’s signature event, the three day National Training Event (NTE) 2013 returns to the Crowne Plaza Hotel in Birmingham this year (20 - 22 November).

This marks the 10th Anniversary of this three day residential event which started life as the LGLF Annual Conference in 2003!

Although modified over the years to suit the changing needs of our members, this event stays true to its original aspirations in providing an unbeatable training event involving three days of first class training by leading licensing experts from across England, Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland.

We are so pleased each year to welcome long standing and new members (and non-members) to the event and to assess each event using feedback from delegates to ensure that we keep the event on track and provide what members and delegates alike have now come to expect from 'the licensing training event of the year'.

The draft programme for 2013 is now available and you can book on-line using the link below. Alternatively you can reserve your place by emailing events@instituteoflicensing.org.

A new member question has been added concerning risk assessments and risk based engagement with licensed premises.

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