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Olympic Extensions Disqualified at the Starting Line

- 11 November 2011

  In answer to a question raised by the Labour MP David Anderson, the Home Office Minister, James Brokenshire, yesterday stated in Parliament that the Home Secretary had no plans to generally extend hours for trading during the Olympics. Under s.172 of the Licensing Act 2003 the Secretary of State...

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Longleat Hotels

- 09 November 2011

It has been reported that the Longleat estate has bought two former Von Essen hotels out of administration; the 21 bedroom Homewood Park Hotel at Hinton Charterhouse and the Bishopstrow House Hotel at Warminster. JG&P were retained to assist Longleat in terms of licensing during the acquisition...

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The 2012 Little Book of Licensing Tips

- 03 November 2011

Our well received booklet, directed at premises level, has just been updated and expanded. Intended to be an aide memoire of the basic fundamentals of licensing and simple due diligence systems, it is available free of charge on request. For a copy or several, please click here.  

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Scotland Minimum Pricing

- 02 November 2011

  As we anticipated some 2 months ago in our article 'Scotland - Minimum Pricing, in the Pipeline', minimum pricing is very much back on the Scottish political agenda with the publication of the draft Alcohol (Minimum Pricing) (Scotland) Bill yesterday. What is missing from the bill at this stage...

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