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The People's Assembly March & Rally - Saturday, 20th June 2015 - Advice to businesses
The ALMR has alerted us to a Metropolitan Police briefing to business in respect of a national demonstration and festival for Saturday 20th June 2015, entitled ‘End Austerity Now', a protest to demand an alternative to the Government's auste...
Taxi licensing update - Law Commission Taxi Report published
Today the Law Commission published its long awaited report and draft Bill on taxi law reform. A lot of the content had been revealed earlier but there are some new ideas and there is now the opportunity to see the proposals in concrete form. In b...
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Scotland - Neighbourhood alcohol and tobacco environments - new interactive map launched
A new interactive map of Scotland has been created to ‘highlight the health risks linked to neighbourhoods with an excess of alcohol and tobacco outlets'. The website allows users to map alcohol and tobacco outlet density for small neighbou...
Contactless Card Payment Limit To Rise
Barclaycard is reporting that spending on eating and drinking out of the house is up significant (16.7%) over the last 12 months, in part no doubt influenced by the growth in contactless payments. Iit is perhaps appropriate to remind that the cur...
Jersey - here we come!
18 June will see our first appearance in Jersey on a licence application! Only however at this stage in a supporting and supervisory role for one of our long established clients who is looking to expand there. The Jersey licensing regime dates b...
Gambling - Fixed Odds Betting Terminals - update
The House of Commons Library has today issued a briefing paper on Fixed Odds Betting Terminals (FOBTs) for the benefit of MPs and sets out details of the perceived ‘issues’ around such machines, previous consultations, betting industry...
Wales Public Health Bill to ban e-cigarettes in enclosed places
The ‘Public Health (Wales) Bill', introduced yesterday, will seek to ban the use of e-cigarettes in enclosed and substantially enclosed public and work spaces. This will effectively bring them into line with rules for normal cigarettes and b...
New psychoactive substances ('legal highs') - parliamentary briefing
Further to our recent news 'Psychoactive Substances Bill' a new House of Commons Library briefing document covers the background to these substances, policies to target them, the current legislative framework and the New Psychoactive Substances Bi...