> Go shopping on a Sunday - although the shop won't sell you anything until an hour after opening.
Does that apply to any specific shops? I don't shop that early on Sundays, but I don't think I've ever seen this applied.
Does that apply to any specific shops? I don't shop that early on Sundays, but I don't think I've ever seen this applied.
Some shops exploit a loophole in that a shop isn't open unless the tills are open.
If you are doing your big periodic grocery shopping in a large supermarket, then it may take you an hour to get everything into your trolley and round to the tills.
So, a shop that is legally open from 1000 to 1800 can open to shoppers at 0900, because few customers would actually buy anything in the first hour of opening anyway.
It's a loophole really, and it isn't true that all shops must wait, just those that choose to use this loophole.
Also it's based on size of shop, so not all shops have limits on trading hours.
The "apply for university before you know your exam results" doesn't apply here either.
However, one of our legal oddities is that we have an extra verdict available in criminal trials, as well as "guilty" and "non guilty" we also have "not proven":
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Not_proven
[Corrected - I said "innocent" rather than "not guilty"]