These are the legal notes for the case action against Stable 34 bar at 34 Hart Street, Henley on Thames. You will need a login to access these notes – please email legal@thesincuragroup.com to request a login.


⬆️ Overview of case – 9 pages of notes

⬆️ Disclosures not given to us – why? – 10 pages

⬆️Venue license

⬆️ James Cummings – company bankrupcy, 5xCCJs



1.1 – ⬆️ Planning permission on venue

1.2 – ⬆️ Government and WHOs noise policy statements

1.3 – ⬆️ License hours on the venue. Guests must leave at 12:00 (on Friday and Saturday). There is no concept of 12 and then guests being allowed to stay longer for “drinking up time” and leave at 12:20. Proof – Licensing Act, Confirmation from council.

1.4 – License requirements on the garden. Guests must leave by 10pm other than use of toilets. Plus monitored.



2.1 – ⬆️ Story of boy1

2.2 – ⬆️ Story of boy 2



3.1 – ⬆️ Group WhatsApp – T (Father), T (Mother), Dave Adams (license holder), James Cunningham (License Holder, Bar Manager), Roger Pickering (Landlord). – 80 pages

3.2 – ⬆️ New Group WhatsApp created by Roger after we requested no more contact – T (Father), T (Mother), Roger Pickering (Landlord) – 7 pages.

3.3 – ⬆️ Private WhatsApp – T (Father) and Roger Pickering (Landlord) – 31 pages.

3.4 – ⬆️ Private WhatsApp – T (Mother) and Roger Pickering (Landlord) – 27 pages



4.1 – ⬆️ Text messages – T (father) and Council Environmental Health Officer/Protection team – 25 pages

4.2 – ⬆️ Monthly calendar – All council correspondence, police correspondence, legal correspondence plus incident reports – 373 pages

  • Feb 2024 – 2 pages
  • March 2024 – 81 pages
  • April 2024 – 85 pages
  • May 2024 – 17 pages
  • June 2024 – 39 pages
  • July 2024
  • Aug 2024 – 10 pages
  • Sept 2024 – 2 pages
  • Oct 2024 – 6 pages
  • Nov 2024 – 86 pages
  • Dec 2024 – 32 pages
  • 2025 – 13 pages

4.3 – All Requests to take recordings



5.1 – ⬆️ Noise App recordings – 144 recordings taken


6.1 – ⬆️ Videos



7.4 – ⬆️ staff ordering drugs

7.5 –⬆️ 7th / 9th March 

7.6 – ⬆️Filming 6th April 2024 at 23.01 & 23.44

7.7 – ⬆️Filming 7th April 2024 at 00:27

7.8 – ⬆️10th May 



8.1 – ⬆️ For Roger (320 questions)

8.2 – ⬆️ For Katie (230 questions)

8.3 – ⬆️ For James (820 questions)

8.4 – For the council (20 questions)

8.5 – ⬆️ For T (8 pages)

8.6 – For T (witness statement)

8.7 – For A (25 questions)

8.8 – For M (witness statement)