Liquor Licensing Liquor Licensing

The Compton Aylmer Liquor Licensing team have considerable experience in every aspect of the Liquor Licensing system. We have a large licenced client base, including off-licensees, publicans and hoteliers, and we provide them with a complete service including the obtaining of new licences, transfer, renewal, sale and purchase of licensed premises.  We have also obtained new licences and advised in relation to theatre licences, entertainment licences, hotel licences, restaurant licences, special restaurant licences, registered clubs, commercial sports and leisure clubs and wholesale licences.  In particular, we have acted in numerous cases opposed by objectors.  We assist clients in finding licences to be offered in extinguishment for new premises as this is a requirement under Irish law.

We frequently project manage new developments coordinating other professionals to arrive on target for opening of premises.
When advising clients in new licensing applications, we coordinate the acquisition of the property and the activities of the professionals working on the project.
 
We advise extensively in relation to operational issues, such as staff training and our staff training manual is in use in the majority of licensed premises in the country.  We also represent clients in prosecutions under the Licensing Code including after hours prosecutions and under age drinking prosecutions.
 
Recent Experience
  • advising a number of industry groups in relation to the 2008 Intoxicating Liquor Act and its implications for their respective sectors
  • acting for one of Ireland’s largest independent off-licence and pub chains.  We have licensed new outlets, advised on renewals, legislative compliance and staff training
  • we are legal advisers to a large UK leisure company who has opened a number of premises incorporating licensed restaurants
  • obtaining publican’s seven-day on-licences and restaurant certificates for new pub premises
  • acting for Hotels in new Licencing Applications
  • acting for retail and publican clients in defending prosecutions brought under the Licensing Acts 1833-2008 and claims under the Equal Status Act, 2000
  • acting for Receivers and Liquidators of Licenced Premises wherein we rescue the trading licences and prepare a blueprint for trading requirements
  • acting for the franchisees of one of Ireland’s fastest growing off-licence franchise operations
  • acting for well-known restaurant chain in countrywide rollout