A Pub or Club in our area refuses to join our pubwatch, what should we do?
As pubwatch is a voluntary activity, joining is the choice of the licence holder and some decide they do not want to join or apply the majority decisions of the watch over who can be served. This is their right and the pubwatch will not be affected by this. In time the premises in question may find that their customers are the problem people banned from all the other premises and may decide to have a change of heart. In the case of a Club they may actually have a problem in joining a watch if they are a members club as membership gives them certain rights in relation to the premises. Normally members of clubs cannot be refused access or service unless they have breached the clubs rules which means that if they are banned by the pubwatch for an incident at premises other than the club the ban would not be enforceable by the club unless there rules allowed for this.
