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Help required urgently please. A friend of mine is up before the licensing committee here in Manchester. Nothing serious but you never know with council's, he was informally interviewed on Nov 3 last year about correspondence allegedly written by him critisising council staff. He asked for a formal interview on tape for his protection, that was refused in writing. They said they only wanted a chat. That took place and my friend thought it went well. So well in fact that the council renewed his License without question on 23 Dec last. He has received a request to go before the committee on 23 Mar next.
Section 61 only allows the council to take action on a license for offences SINCE the license was issued. Therefore I think he has no problems and they just want to smack his a**e. HOWEVER.
There is a case reported on her where this has happened before and the Judge states in his summing up that once a license has been issued the holder is "by defacto" fit and proper. Can anybody help me identify the case, otherwise I will have to trawl though the hundreds on here.
Thanks in anticipation.

I don't know if you are thinking about Crewe-v-Barker.

http://taxi-driver.co.uk/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=7802 (half way down).

The full judgement if you can find it might give a little bit more info.

As for the matter at hand, if the council had all the information when they licensed your chap that they have now, then they can't really do much.

Methinks a slap on the wrist is on the cards.

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