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Because they don't want to bother with all this licensing lark.

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IDFIMH

Its a bloody sight safer than 37 yards of white string with two Macdonald paper cups attached...(not as cheap admittedly)

As far as I can see it, there’s nothing to stop them continuing pretty much as now but under licensed conditions.
As a member’s only club, they’re not that different to a regular company that only does account work so effectively they get to choose just who they issue accounts to.

In any case, no bloke would be seen dead in one of those fluffy pink things.

Well none I know would!

At the end of the night, drunk and desperate to get home they'd get into anything, real men included

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Note to self: Just because it pops into my head does NOT mean it should come out of my mouth!!

id agree with that

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Of all the things ive lost, i miss my mind the most

we don't licence clubs here... they licence private hire companies.... you might well get away with account customers only, but I think to discriminate against sex..ie. no male customers could well lead to prosecutions from licensing department... sex discrimination... as I said before... I might well be wrong.... But to me someone in the legal profession thinks they have a case... it just might not be the case people are presuming...

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Justice for the 96. It has only taken 27 years...........repeat the same lies for 27 years and the truth sounds strange to people!

Mr T, so what's to stop them being licensed and operating as a private club, which would presumably get round the sex discrimination laws?

I can't see what licensing has to do with the equality laws.

To be honest I don't really know, I am only suggesting that they might be going to court from a different angle. I was hoping to stir the little grey cells of the legal eagles.

Many council departments work hand-in-hand in Sefton, hackney and private hire licensing will carry out most of the prosecution's, But trading standards carry out the Test purchasers and prosecute separate.

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Justice for the 96. It has only taken 27 years...........repeat the same lies for 27 years and the truth sounds strange to people!

If you rang a company who then said they’re not picking you up because you’re a man then the firm is breaking the sexual equality laws and this is comes under the licensing rules (I think). But because Pink Ladies don’t advertise and publicise their number and only accepts pre-booked account work, it’s unlikely to fall foul of this ruling.