‘A brothel keeper who arranged for women to be trafficked around the UK as prostitutes has been jailed – after being snared by text messages advertising his services.’
The Independent, 30th May 2023
Source: www.independent.co.uk
‘A lap dancing venue that was threatened with closure by equality groups has had its license renewed after its dancers insisted they were feminists too.’
Daily Telegraph, 17th January 2019
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
‘A couple who owned a sex dungeon in Surrey have been ordered to pay £45,000 after the court heard they ran the den despite being told to shut it down.’
Daily Telegraph, 1st June 2018
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
‘Critical joint police and licensing report alleges ‘serious criminality’ at the city centre club.’
Daily Telegraph, 27th July 2017
Source: www.independent.co.uk
‘Westminster City Council can recover “reasonable” licensing fees and enforcement costs charged to various sex shops in Soho, London, even though these fees were later found to be in breach of an EU directive, the UK’s highest court has ruled.’
OUT-LAW.com, 21st July 2017
Source: www.out-law.com
‘The City of Westminster Council has won a key victory at the Supreme Court in the long-running battle over the level of fees that local authorities can charge licensed premises.’
Local Government Lawyer, 20th July 2017
Source: www.localgovernmentlawyer.co.uk
‘Members of the East London Strippers Collective campaign group have seen the rise and fall of the ‘bonaza era’ of exotic dancing, and they say women are the ones suffering.’
The Independent, 21st February 2017
Source: www.independent.co.uk
‘Licensing authorities are precluded from requiring applicants for the grant or renewal of authorisation to pay a fee that includes in part the costs of managing and enforcing the relevant scheme, the Court of Justice of the European Union has ruled.’
Local Government Lawyer, 17th November 2016
Source: www.localgovernmentlawyer.co.uk
‘A Leicester strip club is to go to a magistrates’ court to challenge the city council’s refusal to renew its licence.’
Local Government Lawyer, 26th August 2016
Source: www.localgovernmentlawyer.co.uk
‘A licensing authority was entitled to levy on a successful applicant for the grant or renewal of a licence a charge enabling the authority to recover the full cost of running and enforcing the licensing scheme.’
WLR Daily, 29th April 2015
Source: www.iclr.co.uk
‘The Supreme Court will next week hear a case with major implications for local authorities and other regulators’ ability to charge fees for licences.’
Local Government Lawyer, 9th January 2015
Source: www.localgovernmentlawyer.co.uk
‘A council’s decision to refuse to renew a lap-dancing club’s sexual entertainment venue licence must be quashed because of a “serious procedural irregularity” which led to it being taken by the wrong persons, a High Court judge has ruled.’
Local Government Lawyer, 1st May 2014
Source: www.localgovernmentlawyer.co.uk
‘Westminster City Council has been given permission to take to the Supreme Court the landmark Hemming case concerning the setting of licensing and regulatory fees.’
Local Government Lawyer, 28th February 2014
Source: www.localgovernmentlawyer.co.uk
‘Where an application was made to renew a sexual entertainment venue licence, the decision maker had to have due regard to fact that the earlier licence had been granted. If no relevant circumstances had changed, he was required to give his reasons for departing from the previous decision when renewal was refused.’
WLR Daily, 11th February 2014
Source: www.iclr.co.uk
“Since the coming into force of the Provision of Services Regulations 2009 a local authority was not permitted, when determining the reasonable licence fee for sex establishments, to reflect in the fee which it determined the cost of enforcing the licensing system against unlicensed operators.”
WLR Daily, 24th May 2013
Source: www.iclr.co.uk
“A sex shop chain in Soho has won a major victory against license fees charged by Westminster City Council, in a landmark decision that the council believe could ‘open the flood gates for illegal pornography.'”
The Independent, 24th May 2013
Source: www.independent.co.uk
“Her landmark legal battle against the nightclub could bring radical changes in employment rights.”
The Guardian, 18th June 2012
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“A lap dancer who attempted to bring an unfair dismissal case against Stringfellows has lost her case, a lawyer for the club said today.”
The Independent, 10th November 2010
Source: www.independent.co.uk
“Men who use brothels are escaping a new law intended to crack down on the coercion of women into prostitution, the Guardian has learned.”
The Guardian, 18th August 2010
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“A ban on using Jobcentres to advertise for strippers and lapdancers is expected to be announced this week.”
BBC News, 1st August 2010
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
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