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Ensuring outdoor areas are properly managed is crucial

Occasional licences remain a vital permission for many businesses

Hospitality workers have always been exposed to threatening and abusive behaviour from senseless – even violent – customers.

The Scottish Government's passport plans are fraught with issues and require clarification, writes Jack Cummins.

THE occasional licence: a lifeline for hundreds of businesses trading in outside areas during the pandemic – but also one of the most problematic parts of licensing legislation.

Past convictions can be a sticking point in applications

The constantly-changing road map now referred to “certain outdoor live events” being permitted, giving operators the false hope that, subject to licence conditions, these could be staged with two-metre distancing

There’s precious little good news around for the trade, but the reopening of music venues in level one and two areas has allowed a further easing of the so-called ‘music ban’ in hospitality premises permitted to serve alcohol indoors.

COVID status certificates could create a number of challenges By Jack Cummins BELIEVE it or not, there is a precedent for mandatory inoculations. The Vaccination Act of...

The courts are unlikely to second-guess difficult health decisions