Licensing

24 Apr 2014

World Cup extensions - important reminder

With under 7 weeks to go to the World Cup, a reminder that: The proposed Government relaxation of licensing hours only applies in England (not Wales or Scotland) and to matches England actually play in so if (as the optimists amongst us hope) Eng...

11 Apr 2014

Second Late Night Levy attempt for Milton Keynes?

In October last year, Milton Keynes Council rejected a proposal to adopt a Late Night Levy with a late night supply period of 01:00 to 06:00. It has been reported that Thames Valley Police have launched a new proposal for Milton Keynes Council to...

31 Mar 2014

Breaking News - Government response to consultation to relax licensing hours during FIFA World Cup

Following the short consultation on relaxing licensing hours for the World Cup, the Government has today published its response, which can be found here. In brief, the Government has concluded that England playing in the World Cup is an occasion ...

25 Mar 2014

Relaxation of Licensing Hours - FIFA World Cup - Urgent update

This consultation closes at 23.45 tomorrow, 26th March, 2014. In accordance with the consultation methods of response, we have just filed a representation on behalf of one of our national clients by e-mail. The auto-response, which we have rec...

25 Mar 2014

Duty plus VAT permitted price calculator updated

We have previously reported on the Government measure to ban of the sale of alcohol below the cost of duty plus VAT. This is still set to be brought into effect by the introduction of a new mandatory licence condition on 6 April 2014 (see the dra...

19 Mar 2014

'Primary Authority' to apply (in part) to Licensing Act 2003

In November 2013, we reported that ‘Primary Authority’ was to be extended to include fire safety (see our previous article here). As a reminder, ‘Primary Authority’ allows businesses to form a partnership with a single loca...