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BOOZE TEST CASE SHOCK

Hearing could bring more chaos to controversial law

A ROW over the opening hours of a Primrose Hill pub has escalated into a full-scale licensing test case which could change the way late night drink applications in Camden are resolved in the future.
In the first case of its kind in the borough and one of the first in the country, a district judge has been asked to review the Town Hall decision to grant a 1am weekend booze licence to the Princess of Wales pub in Chalcot Road. The result of the legal challenge, brought by an unnamed neighbour of the pub and beginning at Highbury Corner Magistrates Court on Monday, could have mammoth ramifications for the way residents fight bids by pubs to open later.
If the challenge is successful, other disgruntled objectors will almost certainly see the court system as a realistic chance to get licensing decisions made at the Town Hall overturned. The extension at the Princess of Wales – granted by licensing chiefs in June – allows the pub to serve drinks in a cellar bar until 1am on Fridays and Saturdays.
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