Clive Alcock on special hours certificates for public houses. Clive Alcock is legal adviser for Staffordshire Police.
Two recent decisions have rejected the contentions made by licensee Steven Shipley of the higher courts’ interpretation of provisions in s77 of the Licensing Act 1964 concerning Special Hours Certificates (SHC). At the request of the police, Cannock Licensing Justices applied Chief Constable of West Midlands v Aubrey Marsden to Shipley’s application for an SHC […]