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Scotland – Minimum Pricing - Court of Session decision
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. In December 2015, the European Court of Justic...
National Minimum Wage Statistics
The National Minimum Wage (NMW) sets minimum hourly rates of pay and those rates (which are based on recommendations of the Low Pay Commission (LPC)) vary by age group. AS previously reported, the introduction of the ‘National Living Wage&r...
British Summer Time ends at 2am Sunday 30 October!
British Summer Time (or as it may be more properly called Daylight Saving Time) ends at 2am Sunday 30 October 2016. This means that at 2am on that Sunday, the time becomes 1am and premises entitled to trade to 2am or later can enjoy an extra...
Scotland - Annual Licence Fee Payments
Just a timely and hopefully friendly reminder that annual fees will fall due on the 3rd October for all Scottish premises licences (this is due to the fact that 1st October is a Saturday). A demand for payment of the annual fee from the Board sho...
Scotland - 'Dundee overprovision policy failed to follow the law'
We have previously reported on the controversial overprovision policy adopted by the Dundee Board which determined that the whole Board area was over-provided save for the waterfront area – see our article 'Scotland - Dundee: Overprovis...
Scotland - West Lothian Licensing Board festive policy 2016/17
Following our previous article about West Lothian Licensing Board consulting on its 2016/17 Festive Policy, the Board has approved premises to have the benefit of later hours without need for formal application in certain circumstances. Premises ...