England & Wales

13 Mar 2025

Propel Legal Briefing - The end of the off-sales easement is no April Fools by Patrick Robson

First appearing for Propel Hospitality in their Legal Briefing on 13th March 2025 If there was one sliver of silver lining for the hospitality industry during the pandemic, it was the off-sales easement. Introduced under the Business and Planning...

12 Mar 2025

IoL - March Taxi Conference, York

JGP attended the IoL’s taxi conference at York this week, with Partner Christopher Grunert taking part in an Workshop Panel with other Taxi experts. There were very interesting presentations throughout the day, including presentations from ...

26 Feb 2025

The Government launches consultation to relax licensing hours for 2025 UEFA Women’s European Championship

The government has launched a consultation on whether to relax licensing hours across licensed premises in England and Wales to mark the 2025 UEFA Women’s European Championships (Euro 2025) semi-finals and final. The proposal is to extend l...

16 Jan 2025

English Devolution and Licensing

Some things will take a long time but have the potential for significant change without a fanfare announcement, the English Devolution White Paper has been presented to Parliament by the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Govern...

27 Nov 2024

Gambling | Statutory levy and online slot stake limits

The Department for Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS) today announced plans to introduce a statutory levy and online slot stake limits to be introduced to tackle gambling harm. The introduction of a statutory levy on the Gambling industry to fund res...

05 Nov 2024

New Smoking Legislation

The Government have today announced a new Bill (the Tobacco and Vapes Bill) intended to take “Tougher action to better protect the public, NHS and the economy from the harms of smoking”. The Bill aims to phase out of the sale of tobac...