Newcastle Introduce Minimum Alcohol Pricing

"Call me Dave" (Cameron) couldn’t get it introduced, and so Newcastle City Council have gone alone and have introduced a minimum price per unit of alcohol of 50p as a price condition for all new licensed premises - in the on and off trades across the city.

Licensing solicitors John Gaunt suggest that this is not mandatory as the council says that it will 'encourage' compliance and says "it will be interesting to see what happens if and when the Licensing Authority choose to impose such a condition, and whether it will then stand up to the scrutiny of the higher courts".

Newcastle first, the rest of the country tomorrow?

Interesting eh?

Martin Read CMBII
Managing Director of Inn-Dispensable Personal Licence Courses