ALMR sets up fighting fund to cover legal challenges to late-night levy and EMROs. The Publican's Morning Advertiser.
Shortly afterward, the northern seaside resort of Blackpool proposed an EMRO and employed a prominent licensing solicitor, Philip Kolvin, to defend the measure.
In both Hartlepool and Blackpool, and a third decision to drop an EMRO proposal in the London Borough of Lambeth, economic consequences--and whether restrictions on licensing would "make the current businesses unviable"--were cited as significant considerations (Lambeth Borough Council, 2014, p.