PM’s wife’s law firm to advise on ban case
Jump to full article: Guernsey Press, 2006-09-18
Author: Nigel Baudains
Intro: MATRIX Chambers, the law firm of which the Prime Minister’s wife, Cherie Blair, is a member, is helping smoking ban protesters mount a legal challenge. . . .
Hotelier and restaurateur Tony Gover said that the Gray’s Inn-based firm would write up the case and five grounds for challenge had been identified.
‘This ban has been disastrous to Guernsey and is killing the visitor trade,’ he said.
He claimed 64 pubs in Scotland had closed because of the ban and four local ones were ‘definitely’ going to do likewise.
As a hotelier, he said he had 38 documents signed by visitors saying they would not come back here because of the ban.
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