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As of 1st May 2012, legislation is now in force making it a criminal offence for any licence holder to fail to display a “notice relating to age” at their premises in a position clearly visible to any person seeking to buy alcohol. The Notice itself must be at least A4 in size and contain the following information:
- It is an offence to supply intoxicating liquor to a person under the age of 18 on these premises.
- It is an offence to supply intoxicating liquor to any person for consumption by a person under the age of 18 on...
Stuart Gilmore, associate solicitor at O'Reilly Stewart Solicitors, recently featured in The Belfast Telegraph, in their report on the ASR "metal on metal" hip replacement unit recall and potential compensation claims that may arise as a result. ...
Linus Murray, Commercial Partner at O'Reilly Stewart Solicitors Belfast, featured in this month's Licensed & Catering News.
The deadline for the renewal of the vast majority of Liquor Licences in Northern Ireland is upon us once again. The 5-yearly cycle ends in September 2012 by which point all current Liquor Licences ought to have been through the Magistrate’s Court renewals procedure. The...
As part of the recent BBC Newsnight investigation, the BBC interviewed Carl Heneghan, Director of the Centre for Evidence-Based Medicine in Oxford. He stated that the fundamental problem is that artificial hips, breast implants, and other devices which are implanted in patients do not have to face the same rigorous tests that new drugs do.
He says that whereas drugs have to go through years of clinical trials “you could get a device through with a two or three day literature review and no clinical data requirement at the current time.” Whereas drugs...
