On the opening morning of the Tribunal between the collecting society and the hospitality industry, PPL's legal team said there were two reasons for the rates being introduced in 2004: a new right that was granted to PPL and the undervaluing of PPL's rights historically.

Last Thursday Pushpinder Saini QC, acting for PPL's lawyers GSC, told the tribunal chaired by Henry Carr that the case was not simply dealing with the new right given to PPL in 2003 allowing it ...