Anthony M Horne, M.A. (Cantab) - Director
With the approval of Weightmans, Anthony entered into partnership with Richard Williams at Licensing Legal in September 2004.
Anthony has experience in most areas of licensing law and over the years has been involved in high profile cases such as the licensing of the first indoor velodrome in Europe, the first new casino in Manchester for 30 years and a multi-faceted development in Manchester City Centre involving 16 site licences
Anthony was educated at Manchester Grammar School and Cambridge University. He qualified in 1985 and spent the first part of his career with Burton Copeland where he was made a partner in 1988. Following moves within Manchester, in April 1999 he joined Weightmans and was later appointed Head of the Licensing Department.
Richard Williams, LL.B (Hons) - Director
More recently, Richard was employed in London at specialist licensing firm Joelson Wilson & Co, dealing with liquor and entertainment licensing and gaming. He has been involved in numerous contested liquor and entertainment licence applications, including those in Westminster.
Whilst at Joelson Wilson, he was the co-author of the Publican legal page and has recently written several chapters of a textbook about the new Licensing Act.
He resigned from his position at Joelson Wilson in 2004 in order to set up Licensing Legal Solicitors.
He continues to advise and represent clients on a national basis.
Richard was educated at Bolton School and the University of Newcastle upon Tyne.
He qualified as a Solicitor at Cobbetts in Manchester and worked initially as a property lawyer, specialising in licensed property transactions. After 2 years he moved within Cobbetts to deal exclusively with liquor and entertainment licensing.
Steven Reynolds, LL.B (Hons) MBA
- Senior Associate Solicitor
with a “sabbatical” for six months as an in house lawyer for a large drinks wholesaler. Steven has appeared before magistrates’ courts and licensing authorities throughout the country in many contested hearings and has particular skills in finding innovative and creative solutions to legal problems.
Steven has a Masters Degree in Business Administration and is a member of the Chartered Institute of Marketing. He is also a legal author with three law books under his belt.
Originally from the North West, Steven was called to the Bar in 1981 and transferred to the Law Society in 1999. He spent his early years as a magistrates clerk gaining substantial experience of all aspect of magistrates’ courts work. He later joined Pannone and Partners, Manchester, specialising in liquor licensing, entertainment and regulatory law. The move to Pannone’s was followed by further moves to Addleshaw Booth & Co, Kuit Steinart Levy
Carrol Ashton - F.Inst.Pa
- Licensing Manager
Carrol joined Weightmans, Manchester in April 2001 and moved with the Licensing Team to Licensing Legal in 2004.
Carrol was educated at Spurley Hey High School, Manchester. She began her career with Greater Manchester Police in 1981 as an Administration Assistant/Clerk in the main Forces Central Licensing Department. Having established a keen interest in the subject she became the Police Civilian Licensing Officer covering the Trafford area of Greater Manchester in 1985, making her one of the 1st (if not the 1st) Civilian Licensing Officers in the country, a position she held until January 2000, when she left the Police to join the private sector.
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