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Scotland – Licensing (Personal Licences: Supplemental and Transitional Provision) (Scotland) Order 2019
The snappily titled Licensing (Personal Licences: Supplemental and Transitional Provision) (Scotland) Order 2019 was laid before the Scottish Parliament yesterday with a view to it coming into force on 30 June 2019. As many Scottish personal lice...
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Food Safety: Judge reminds operators duty of care they owe to customers with allergies
This week, a Court of Appeal case has once again given a timely reminder to operators of their duty of care to customers with allergies. In Kuddus v R. [2019] EWCA Crim 837 (16 May 2019), which concerned a takeaway owner who was jailed for the ma...
Durham - Licensing Policy
Durham County Council has recently closed their consultation on their new proposed licensing statement for the next 5 years. The Policy which covers the entire County has been recently criticised by Durham City’s Labour MP, Dr. Roberta...
Scotland - Deposit Return Scheme (DRS)
Scotland was the first part of the UK to announce that is was planning to bring forward a deposit return scheme. Following the closure of their public consultation on a Deposit Return Scheme the Scottish government have published their anal...
Gambling - Defining Gambling Harm
As part of their recently launched National Strategy to Reduce Gambling Harms a new framework to understand gambling harms experienced by children and young people has now been published by the Gambling Commission. The new framework document can ...
Scotland - Last chance for licence renewals
We cannot promise this will be the last reminder from us on the requirement to renew Scottish personal licences which are due to expire on 31st August 2019 (if in doubt check your personal licence document for the expiry date) but the deadline to ...
Below cost sales - Guidance
The prohibition on the sale of alcohol below ‘cost’ has long been a mandatory condition of all premises licences in England & Wales. It came into effect on 28th May 2014. The Government define ‘cost’ as the amoun...