Scotland

17 May 2017

Scotland – Minimum Pricing – Supreme Court hearing date announced

The long running saga over the Scottish Government’s intention to introduce a minimum unit price for alcohol of 50p (opposed by the Scotch Whisky Association) may finally be drawing to a close.  We have learnt that the Supreme Court wil...

15 May 2017

Scotland - Air Weapons and Licensing (Scotland) Act 2015 - further provisions coming into force today

A reminder that further provisions affecting the licensing regime in Scotland come into force today. For more detail, see our earlier article 'Scotland - Air Weapons and Licensing (Scotland) Act 2015 - further provisions coming into force'. Thes...

02 May 2017

Scotland - Overprovision Policy

A recently published Judgement of the North Strathclyde Sherriff has confirmed the right of Licensing Board to reply upon their over provision policy when determining applications, along with a number of other significant clarifications. The Appe...

21 Apr 2017

Scotland - Air Weapons and Licensing (Scotland) Act 2015 - further provisions coming into force

As we have previously reported, the Air Weapons and Licensing (Scotland) Act 2015 made some changes to the Scottish licensing regime. See our article: 'Scotland - Air Weapon and Licensing (Scotland) Act 2015 - Received Royal Assent'. The Air...

21 Mar 2017

Gloucester City Council postpone Late Night Levy decision

A meeting scheduled this week regarding Late night Levy Proposals,  has been postponed until the 24th July 2017. The Council indicated that it had received a number of consultation responses requesting a Business Improvement District (BID) t...

07 Mar 2017

Scotland – Licensing Board dates 2017

Operators familiar with the Scottish licensing system will be aware of the importance of when a Board sits to consider a particular application. This is particularly significant for dates from May onwards, given the hiatus to the fixing of such d...