England & Wales
Covid 19 - What you need to know - Closing certain businesses and venues in England (Guidance)
On 1st May the Government updated their guidance regarding the closure of certain businesses and venues in England. Some of the updates to the guidance include: Clarification that room service in hotels and accommodation is permitted. Ciropract...
New smoking laws coming into effect on 20th May 2020.
From the 20th May 2020 new further parts of the Tobacco Products Directive (2014/40/EU) will come into force impacting the UK market. From 20th May, cigarettes and roll your own tobacco products with more than a 3% market share may no longer have...
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Covid 19 - What you need to know - Financial Conduct Authority to seek Court Declaration.
On Friday (1st May), the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) announced it intends to obtain a court declaration to resolve contractual uncertainty in business interruption (BI) insurance cover. The range of wordings and types of coverage are suffic...
Gambling - Inquiry on problem gambling - First hearing
We have previously reported on the launch of the Public Accounts Committee inquiry on problem gambling. On Monday (27th April) the Committee questioned officials from the Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport and the Gambling Commissio...
Covid 19 - What you need to know - Wales - the route out of lockdown
Both the Welsh Assembly and Scottish Parliament have now published documents outlining how the countries will transition out of lockdown. In the Welsh document, which can be read in full here, the Assembly sets out three pillars for their framewo...
Covid 19 - What you need to know - Fraud and cybercrime
The Home Office has published advice on how to protect yourself and your business from fraud and cybercrime, which can be read here. Criminals will use every opportunity they can to scam innocent people and their businesses. They are experts at i...
Covid 19 - What you need to know - Welsh regulations published
The Local Authorities (Coronavirus) (Meetings) (Wales) Regulations 2020 came into force on 22nd April 2020. The principle purpose of the regulations is to make provision in relation to local authority meetings, and the publication of and acc...
Gambling - Committee launches inquiry on problem gambling
On Monday the Public Accounts Committee launched an inquiry on problem gambling. A press release from the UK Parliament can be read here. The National Audit Office’s (NAO’s) February 2020 report ‘Gambling regulation: problem ga...