A bar counter, and no obligation to serve food
Full seven day licences, purchase and transfer, extinguishment of an existing licence in the Circuit Court, renewals and the paperwork the Annual Licensing Court asks for.
RetailLeisureHospitalityLicensed trade
Every hour you are allowed to tradeis set out somewhere.
Compton Solicitors act for the businesses that open their doors and serve: pubs, hotels, restaurants, shops, distilleries and the landlords behind them. Below is the trading week exactly as the firm sets it out in its own published guide, and what each further licence adds to the end of the night.
2013
the year the firm published its first guide, and it is still writing
62
guides and notes published on comptonsolicitors.ie
20
practice areas on the firm's own What we do page
3
partners, one each for licensing, real estate and corporate
The trading week
What you may serve, and until when.
Nine days of the licensed year, drawn to scale. Switch the licence and watch the end of the night move.
Permitted hours, to scale
Core pub trading hours. The half hour of drinking up time after each closing time is shown hatched, so the bar is the full period a customer can still be on the premises.
Core trading
Added by the licence chosen
Drinking up time, 30 minutes
Monday to Thursday
10.30am to 11.30pm
Friday and Saturday
10.30am to 12.30am
Sunday
12.30pm to 11pm
St Patrick's DayEven where it falls on a Sunday
12.30pm to 12.30am
Eve of a public holidayWhere it falls on a weekday
10.30am to 12.30am
Eve of a public holidayWhere it falls on a Sunday
12.30pm to 12.30am
Christmas Eve
10.30am to 11.30pm
23 DecemberOnly where it falls on a Sunday
10.30am to 11.30pm
Christmas Day
No sale permitted
Every time above is reproduced from the firm's own published guide, How to get a pub licence, along with its own conditions: a restaurant certificate allows the sale of alcohol with food for one hour beyond normal pub trading hours, and a premises that also holds a dance licence may apply for special exemption orders allowing trade until 2.30am. Nothing here is legal advice, and hours should be confirmed with the firm before you rely on them.
Delivering effective dispute resolution
Liquor Licensing
Objection to Renewal of Liquor Licences
Special Exemption Applications
Annual Licence Renewals
Regulatory Enforcement
Planning Enforcement
Commercial Property
Landlord and Tenant
Mergers and Acquisitions
Joint Ventures
Management Buyouts
Civil and Commercial Litigation
By premises
Six kinds of premises, one set of questions each.
The licence a business needs follows from what it sells and where the customer stands to drink it.
Selling for consumption somewhere else
Wine and full off licences for shops, supermarkets and convenience stores, and how alcohol has to be separated and displayed once it is on the shelf.
Alcohol with a meal, at a table
Choosing the correct restaurant licence, adding a pub licence to a bona fide restaurant, and what may be served with and without food.
Residents, function rooms and the dining room
Hotel liquor licences, permitted trading times with meals, and what the residents' bar can and cannot do after hours.
Selling what you made on the premises
Producer's retail licences and wholesale dealers' licences for distilleries, breweries and gin makers. The firm acted on the first producer's retail licence granted in the Dublin Circuit Court.
Tables on the pavement, drinks in the yard
Street furniture licences and permits, and whether alcohol may be served in an outdoor dining area rather than inside the licensed premises.
On the record
Matters the firm files under In The News.
Five entries from the firm's own publications index, with the headlines and dates exactly as published there.
19 July 2019
Dublin Circuit Court grants the first Producer's Retail Licence for a gin distillery
Read it on comptonsolicitors.ie 24 September 2021Compton Solicitors advises in relation to Judicial Review Proceedings
Read it on comptonsolicitors.ie 2 April 2017Form an orderly queue: Brown Thomas has been granted a Full Bar Licence
Read it on comptonsolicitors.ie 8 February 2017Bad Ass cafe wins legal battle against council over serving alcohol without food
Read it on comptonsolicitors.ie 20 November 2017Well-known Dublin pub-restaurant given green light for a one million euro extension
Read it on comptonsolicitors.ie
Who runs it
Three partners, three departments.
Biographies condensed from the firm's own Who we are page.
01
Lorraine Compton
Retail, hospitality, leisure and liquor licensing
Previously head of the Retail and Leisure Sector Group at Matheson. Chosen as Best Lawyers Lawyer of the Year, Leisure and Licensing Law, Dublin, in 2015 and 2016. The Law Society of Ireland's nominee to the Courts Service on bringing liquor licensing applications online. Has worked on clients' shop floors to establish whether particular advice would hold up in the room.
02
Nicola Rooney
Head of real estate
Twenty years across commercial property, landlord and tenant, retail and leisure and liquor licensing. Acquisition, development, leasing and disposal of shopping centres, acting for international retail clients, and involved in most of the major shopping centre developments in the country over that period. A graduate of Trinity College Dublin; previously with Matheson and McCann FitzGerald.
03
Joy Compton
Head of corporate
Twenty years in commercial and corporate law: mergers and acquisitions, joint ventures, management buyouts, restructuring and governance, plus the day to day contracts a trading business runs on. Chairperson of the Business Law Committee of the Law Society of Ireland. Wrote the Irish chapter of Directors' Liability and Indemnification and of the German publication Business Law in Germany. Previously with Eugene F. Collins.
Contact
Pembroke House, Dublin 2.
Address
30 Pembroke Street Upper,
Dublin 2, Ireland
Document exchange
DX: 109 047 Fitzwilliam
Telephone