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Clients from a wide variety of sectors instruct the team at Mincoffs Solicitors LLP, which is increasingly providing assistance to hotel chains and other players within the hospitality industry. The practice has a national reach, assisting clients from many major cities, including Leeds and Manchester. Areas of expertise include gaming and taxi licensing, the last of which is the key focus of consultant Tim Gray. As well as preparing and negotiating applications, practice head Matthew Foster also acts in relation to contentious applications, prosecutions and reviews.

The team at Sintons LLP receives instructions from an enviable range of clients in the North, and assists with the majority of licensing applications submitted to Newcastle City Council. The practice frequently works in collaboration with licensing authorities and other responsible bodies. As well as handling appeals and defending review of licences, the firm also drafts responses to Government and Local Authority Consultation documents on behalf of trade associations. Practice head Sarah Smith has a growing reputation in the taxi licensing field, particularly in the Durham area.