Gary Grant

Practice Areas

A leading licensing barrister dealing with complex and important cases in all areas of licensing. They include many of the most hard-fought and high-profile licence applications, reviews, appeals and judicial reviews involving the country's leading nightclubs, bars, restaurants, hotels, sex entertainment venues, sporting and entertainment arenas, taxi and gambling operators, mixed-use leisure developments, cinema groups, museums, theatres, street carnivals and music festivals.

Clients have included Hard Rock Café, Pacha, Tate Modern, Amazon, McDonald’s, Chiltern Firehouse, Secret Cinema, Everyman Cinema, Spearmint Rhino, Marriott, Hilton and Britannia hotels, the nightclubs of Rekom UK, Ola Cabs, the restaurants of Sir Terence Conran and Alan Yau OBE and bars of Inception Group.

Gary advises businesses and bodies in regard to the legal cannabis market in the UK and is Head of the Cannabis Group at Francis Taylor Building. He also has a wealth of experience in the criminal courts.

Gary is a Consultant Editor of Paterson's Licensing Acts (the “bible of licensing law”) and Principal Contributor to the "Clubs" volume in The Encyclopaedia of Forms and Precedents (Lexis Nexis). In 2021 he was made a Fellow of the Institute of Licensing of his outstanding contribution to licensing.

Further information at: www.licensingbarrister.com