Sarah
Thanks for the useful link. I work in Bexley and part of my role as the alcohol strategy manager is an involvment in the enforcement of the Licensing Act. Bexley is the leading authority in the country for review of licences (38 so far)and has taken a very hard line. During the past 2 years they have promoted the Challenge 21 scheme to combat under age sales but this year are targetting sales to 'drunks'. As you say this is a very difficult area to enforce. To prove an offence the Police would have to arrest the drunk and have him examined by a doctor. I don't know if this is then just the opinion of the doctor or there has to be a level of alcohol in the blood. This would need quite a concerted effort and support from senior police (which there is in Bexley).
The other approach which they might use is to show CCTV evidence of the bar selling to individuals who appear drunk at a review of the premise licence. The burden of proof at these hearings is different and this would be admissable and help to build a case to withdraw the licence.
Hope that helps.
Regards
Graham Lettington
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Subject: Three things
Hello All
1. The Home Office have just published a publication called a practical
guide to dealing with alcohol problems. It is largely criminal justice
focussed but makes for interesting (and occasionally amusing) reading,
listing legislation and offences in relation to alcohol related
offending. It includes offences relating to children too although this is
not exhaustive. The link is:
http://drugs.homeoffice.gov.uk/publication-search/drug-
strategy/alcoholguide?view=Binary
(The amusing bit (for me anyway)is the bit about how pubs can be fined for
selling drink to drunk people or for selling drink to people buying drink
for drunk people! Who decides what drunk is? Isn't drink supposed to make
you drunk to a greater or lesser degree?)
2. In case you don't know about it, you can access policy
initiatives/documents/consultations etc as they happen on
www.info4local.gov.uk. Once you register you can sign up for weekly
alerts and they'll be emailed to you. Careful how many subjects you choose
otherwise the weekly alert can be quite long! However it is a good way of
keeping up to date on policy stuff.
3. Re this mailling list. Following comments and suggestions last
mailout, the good people at JISC tell me they have now set the default to
reply to sender ONLY. This means that if you want your reply to go to the
wider list you will have to post it AS IF FOR THE FIRST TIME and create a
NEW POST. I suggest we try this for a bit and see how it goes!
All the best
Sarah.
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