ABSTRACT
This chapter examines the facilitation of the night-time economy, growing congruence with the neo-liberal agenda of twenty-four hour economy, the dissolution of moral activism, the inadequate reliance on the law of tort as a means of regulating social interests are representative of a regulatory framework guided by the evolving marketplace and commercialism. It explores the unraveling of regulatory controls within Southview; in particular, how the subjectivity of regulators confined itself to a strategy of permissiveness and managerialism and how this laissez-faire defeatism served to benefit the entrepreneurs of the night-time economy. The chapter focuses on the Council was embracing ideals of transparency and accountability in the form of anti-corruption measures and greater constraint by legal norms and was exemplified in the administration of licensing. At the core of the sense of agency was that licensing authorities were permitted to make 'moral judgments' about the nature of the premises and the character of the licensee.
