- Tel:
- Work 0141 332 3265
- Fax:
- Fax 0141 332 0414
- DX:
- 512207 GLASGOW - SANDYFORD PL
- Web:
- www.hillbrown.co.uk
- Email:
Jack Cummins
- Tel:
- Work +44 141 333 0636
- Email:
Work Department
Licensing.
Position
Partner specialising in liquor and gaming licensing for hoteliers, restaurateurs, multiple retailers and entertainment industry.
Career
Apprenticed R & JM Hill Brown & Co; qualified 1978; partner 1980; head of teaching in liquor licensing law, Glasgow University 1992-93; contributor to Law Society of Scotland ‘Update’ teaching programme; keynote speaker, National Conferences for Licensing Boards, Aberdeen, 1994, 1995, Dundee 1996, 1999, chairman 1997, 1998, 2001, 2002, 2003; editor ‘Scottish Licensing Law and Practice’; contributor to ‘Scots Law Times’, and various other legal and ?licensed trade journals and periodicals; author of ‘Licensing Law ?in Scotland’ (Butterworths/Law Society of Scotland, 2000, 2nd ?ed); author of ‘Licensing (Scotland) Act 2005’ (Thomson/W. Green, 2009, 2nd edition); contributor to ‘Licensing Law Guide’ (2001, 3rd ?ed, Butterworths), ‘Scottish Licensed Trade Handbook’ (W Green, 2003), and ‘Licensed Premises: Law and Practice’ (Tottel, 2005); course author for Glasgow Graduate School of Law; member of the Nicholson Licensing Law review committee 2001-03 and the Scottish Executive’s Expert Reference Group, which advised on technical aspects of licensing law reform; accredited as a specialist in liquor licensing law by the Law Society of Scotland; director Licensing Services Ltd.
Member
Licensing Law sub-committee and Liquor Licensing Specialisation Accreditation Panel, Law Society of Scotland; Royal Faculty of Procurators (Glasgow); Glasgow Bar Association.
Education
Kilmarnock Academy; University of Montpellier, 1972-73; Glasgow University (1974 MA, 1976 LLB).
Leisure
Reading, music, theatre.
Practice Areas
Licensing, gaming and betting