Chambers of Lord Grabiner QC
TEMPLE, LONDON, EC4Y 9AR, ENGLAND
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Susanna Fitzgerald QC
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Position
Barrister specialising in licensing, including gaming, alcohol and public entertainment, betting, lotteries, judicial review (licensing-related aspects); recent work includes representing and/or advising many of the major leisure and gaming operators and retail liquor outlets and local authorities; acting for licensees on reviews before the Gambling Commission advising a major building society on a free prize award scheme; advising on internet and television gambling and television gameshows, betting and lotteries law and challenging amendments to UK laws on gambling and licensing and on foreign laws to legalise internet gambling; advising the Gambling Commission and the Isle of Man Gambling Supervision Commission; appearing for promoters of major outdoor pop concerts in licence hearings; advising trade associations and others on responses to consultation documents on proposed new regulations and codes on the Gambling Act 2005; advising on the Licensing Act 2003; appealing EU review and variation licensing; acting for lottery promoter challenging (under European law) the prohibition on promotion of large foreign lotteries; acting for nightclubs and on judicial review of the meaning of the licence conditions on an application to license ‘table dancing’ in London; acting for major oil companies in the High Court, seeking to obtain licences to operate off-licences on ‘garage forecourt shops’; Rindberg Holding Co Ltd v Newcastle upon Tyne Justices and Ultimate Leisure (on occasional Licences); appeared for successful appellants in R (on the application of Bushell and others) v Newcastle upon Tyne Licensing Justices and Ultimate Leisure in the House of Lords; R v Burt and Adams (acting for defendants, House of Lords); R v Interactive Telephone Services Ltd (acting for the CPS); R v News Group Newspapers Ltd (acting for the CPS), acting for a major bookmaking company in injunction proceedings and on licence revocations on the grounds of illegal betting.
Career
Called 1973; Inner Temple; QC 1999; bencher Inner Temple 2007; publications: contributing editor to Smith & Monkcom’s ‘Law of Betting, Gaming and Lotteries’ 2nd edition and 3rd edition; and Halsbury’s ‘Laws of England: vol 4(1) Betting, Gaming and Lotteries’; numerous articles published in ‘Licensing Review’ and ‘Solicitors Journal’; has drafted submissions to the government on changes in Liquor and Public Entertainment Licensing Law and on amendments to the Gaming Bill for leading Trade Associations; has lectured extensively at conferences on gambling and licensing in the UK and abroad since 1985; has appeared on radio and television.
Member
Director of Business in Sport and Leisure; member CLCBA, Commercial Women in Law; member Society for the Study of Gambling; director of the Institute of Licensing; trustee GamCare; fellow of the Royal Society for the Encouragement of Arts, Manufacturers and Commerce.
Education
Benenden School; Bristol University (LLB Hons BL).
Practice Areas
Licensing
