Licensing, Hospitality and Leisure

At Kingsley Napley, our cross-practice team delivers practical, commercially focused solutions to help you navigate these challenges.

Our Services

We advise on the full spectrum of regulatory matters affecting hospitality and leisure operators:

Licensing Enforcement

Whilst we don’t handle initial licensing applications, we specialise in defending businesses facing enforcement action, including licence condition breaches and premises licence reviews.

Health, Safety & Environmental

• Health and safety compliance and offence defence
• Fire safety obligations and offence defence

Employment & Safeguarding

• Prevention of illegal working
• Safeguarding children and vulnerable adults
• Unlawful discrimination claims
• Directors’ liabilities and duties

Criminal & Regulatory

• Police station representation
• Trading standards and weights and measures offences
• Corporate criminal liability
• Private prosecutions (dishonest employees, assault, property damage)

Additional Support

• Data protection compliance
• Inquest representation

Our Team

Led by Partner Melinka Berridge, former Head of Licensing at a leading UK pub company, our team brings decades of sector-specific experience and unique breadth of expertise to support hospitality and leisure businesses through their regulatory challenges.