Kirsty Hughes
Kirsty is a Senior Associate in the Regulation, Business Crime and Compliance team. She advises companies, directors and individuals on regulatory compliance across a range of areas including health and safety, food safety, weights and measures, underage sales, trading standards, product safety and fire safety. She has experience of large scale inquiries and inquests. Kirsty is also an experienced licensing lawyer and provides expert advice on alcohol, late night refreshment, entertainment and gaming licensing. Taking a break from the law, Kirsty gained practical compliance experience as the Technical Manager for a producer of cooked and smoked poultry where she was responsible for all compliance matters for the company including HACCP, audits, health and safety, food labelling and fire safety. Kirsty then worked as a Compliance Officer in a school, as well as a Clerk to the Governing Body, extending her knowledge base to the education sector. Kirsty has also been a School Governor, sat on the Scrutiny Board for Education at Solihull MBC and clerked a charity which supported local good causes. · Shoosmiths LLP
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Kirsty Hughes is a Senior Associate in Shoosmiths' Regulation, Business Crime and Compliance team who advises companies, directors and individuals on regulatory compliance including health and safety, food safety, weights and measures, underage sales, trading standards, product safety and fire safety, and has experience of large-scale inquiries and inquests. She is an experienced licensing lawyer on alcohol, late night refreshment, entertainment and gaming licensing and has practical compliance experience as Technical Manager for a cooked and smoked poultry producer (HACCP, audits, health and safety, food labelling and fire safety); she also worked as a Compliance Officer and Clerk to the Governing Body in a school and trained at Eversheds (1992) before roles at Poppleston Allen and Hammond Suddard Edge and running her own practice from 2002.