Richard Cole recently acted (January 2018) for the Chief Constable of South Wales Police in a number of licensing applications concerning premises in the Churchill Way/Queen Street area of Cardiff before a licensing sub-committee sitting at City Hall. The case received local and national publicity (The Times, The Daily Mail, The Metro, the Sun, the BBC, Walesonline, The South Wales Echo) because of the nature of one of the applications. He was instructed by Mrs Louise Emmitt, senior solicitor at the Legal Department of the Force.
Phillip Kolvin QC acted for the Applicant