LIQUOR LICENSING LAWYER

Your business depends on keeping your liquor license intact. Posner Craig Stein can assist you when faced with an audit, a complaint, and to ensure regulatory compliance. We have vast experience with the Alcohol and Gaming Commission of Ontario (“AGCO”) and regularly appear before the License Appeal Tribunal (“LAT”). Our attention to detail and deep understanding of your regulatory situation will help protect you and your business.

The AGCO administers the Liquor License Control Act in Ontario. They regulate most aspects of the sale, service, and delivery of alcohol in Ontario. The AGCO regulates and provides licenses for:

• Bars and restaurants, and any other establishment that sells or serves alcohol.
• The delivery of alcohol
• Manufacturing alcohol
• Special occasion licenses, such as weddings or large events.

The AGCO inspects and audits licensees regularly to ensure compliance.

Posner Craig Stein can assist you with:

• Advising you on compliance
• Applications for licensing
• Investigations and audits
• Revocation, suspension or refusal of licensing
• Appeals from negative decisions from the AGCO
• Appeals from negative decisions from the License Appeal Tribunal.

Individuals or businesses who dispute a Notice of Proposal, an Order of Monetary Penalty, or other decisions from the AGCO can appeal to the LAT. Hearings before the LAT may be heard in-person and can involve the examination and cross-examination of witnesses and oral submissions. Hearings can also be conducted entirely in writing, and will depend on the filing of documents, records, and written arguments.

Posner Craig Stein has extensive experience and skill in oral and written advocacy. The lawyers at Posner Craig Stein have highly developed and keen cross-examination skills.  Our written work is polished and persuasive.  It has been honed over years of preparing written submissions in many tribunals throughout the Province and at all levels of court, including in the Supreme Court of Canada.

Posner Craig Stein is the right liquor licensing firm to handle your licensing issues because:

• We achieve the best possible results for our clients;
• Our advocacy skills, both written and oral, are widely respected;
• Our fees are highly competitive.

If your liquor license is at risk, it is to your benefit to retain an experienced liquor license lawyer immediately. Posner Craig Stein may be able to help you avoid serious consequences, such as loss of your license and financial damage.

Come meet with us, in confidence, at out office, by phone, or a virtually to discuss your options today. Put your trust in the Posner Craig Stein team of highly skilled liquor license lawyers with proven experience.