I hope I am wrong, and with the aspect now on the reform rather than PELs I may be, but I suspect that you will recieve the following standard reply.

Dear Mr Gall

Thank you for your emails. Liberty's casework focuses on four areas in which we have specific expertise and have identified as priority areas. These are equality, criminal justice, privacy and policing.

We seek to take on specialist test cases in these areas that force changes in the law, usually by mounting a challenge under European human rights law or the Human Rights Act 1998.

Unfortunately, licensing is not an area in which we have specific expertise and it is not one of our priority areas of work. Because of this I am afraid we are unable to assist directly.

I am sorry we are unable to provide further assistance. As I hope you can appreciate, we receive a huge number of requests for help. As we are a small organisation are only able to take on a small number of these requests as test cases.

You will be able to obtain details of Solicitors in your area, along with their areas of specialisation, from the Community Legal Services help line 0845 608 1122. They may also be able to give details of firms who may be able to act on a no-win no-fee basis.

We do appreciate that there are many Human Rights Act queries that do not come into our core areas of specialisation. Because of this we offer a telephone advice service for solicitors who are seeking assistance on Human Rights Act issues relating to their cases. If you instruct a solicitor who holds a civil legal aid contract they can contact us on 0808 808 4546.