Charles was awarded Fellowship at the Institute’s Gala Dinner on Thursday 14th November 2024.

Institute Vice Chair Gary Grant who presented the award said: 

“Charles is the licensing lawyer’s licensing lawyer. He’s the barrister that other barristers turn to when facing a particularly tricky or novel legal issue, and this is for two reasons.

Firstly, because he has the supreme ability to wield his near encyclopaedic knowledge of the law of licensing, blended with knowledge of so many other legal fields, in order to find a creative solution to a seemingly intractable problem. Secondly, and just as importantly, because he has a generosity of spirit to pause his own work to help his less knowledgeable colleagues and friends

Whether it be forwarding an obscure case precedent from some Victorian era Judge or a more recent one from the Chancery division, he is invariably ‘the man who can’. Over the years, Charles has distinguished himself among the very best and has devoted countless hours to furthering the Institute through his work with Leo Charalambides as a Deputy Editor of the Journal of Licensing and as a frequent contributor at Institute events.

It is my professional privilege, as well as a personal joy, that Charles’ outstanding contribution to licensing has been recognised by the award of Fellowship.”