‘Cleaning’ condition looks set to sink
Jack Cummins is one of Scotland’s leading licensing lawyers. Every month he writes on licensing law and answers readers’ questions in SLTN.
Forum has...
Family rules are a step backwards
The 2005 Act meant to encourage child-friendly venues. It didn’t
“COMPLEX, uncertain, and at times almost unintelligible” – that was the Nicholson Committee’s unflattering view...
Why we need a minimum price
THE case for minimum pricing was set out by Scotland’s top civil servant on alcohol before a major licensing conference in Glasgow last week.
Addressing...
PLH history must not be repeated
Huge backlog of applications seen in 2009 must be avoided
Lawyer named rising star
LICENSING lawyer, and SLTN columnist, Stephen McGowan has been named Rising Star of the Year at the Scottish Legal Awards.
McGowan, a director of...
There’s no sense to ad ban calls
Arguments to ban alcohol advertising are based on flawed logic
A COUPLE of weeks ago a report by a ‘virtual expert group’ published by Alcohol...
Health-linked board policies holding firm
BACK in February I reported that Edinburgh licensing board was consulting on an amendment to its overprovision policy that would almost create a formidable...
It’s time to bring the laws together
The Scottish Government should hold fire on further licensing legislation until it has tied together the current raft of regulations.
Licensing lawyers have argued for...
Limit is driving the trade to distraction
Some seem to abandon all reason on the subject of drink-driving
Drinking and driving: undoubtedly a potential menace to society, but also a subject that...
Clarity needed on fit and proper test
Boards shouldn’t base licensing decisions on vague intelligence
In my column a couple of months ago I looked at two proposals in the Air...
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