A hotel has faced court and been hit with over $30k in fines after serving a dessert mistakenly labelled ‘allergen-free’ and nearly killing a patron. According to facts presented before the court, a woman was attending a function at the Pan Pacific in Perth in November last year, at which organisers had informed the hotel […]
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The historic Oxford Hotel of North Adelaide has closed amid a multimillion-dollar legal battle between property magnate Con Makris and his daughter, the proprietor. After emigrating to Australia from Greece in 1963, Makris, now 76, took root in Adelaide. He founded Makris Group in 1980, going on to build an extensive portfolio of commercial property,
A pub employee has been convicted and fined for an over-zealous attempt to stop a patron from drink driving. According to police documents tendered in court, 47-year-old Andrew Winter from Catalina, who works at the Bay View Hotel in Batemans Bay, assaulted a regular patron who was drinking with a friend. The bartender was familiar
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A man is facing major charges in relation to injuries and the subsequent death of another man, after an altercation at the Lighthouse Hotel on Tuesday (20 June). According to reports, 38-year-old father Matthew James Hayes was behaving inappropriately and “causing a disturbance”, which came to involve a woman at the hotel – the girlfriend
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Homicide detectives have charged a man over the murder of another man stabbed outside a Victorian pub with his wife, after a celebration. Clint Allen, aged 38, was with a group of people including his wife, Bek, for the occasion of her 37th birthday. At some point after midnight they emerged from the Criterion Hotel
Victoria’s regulator has hit Tabcorp and the Preston Hotel with multiple charges and launched a wider investigation over reports of minors being allowed to gamble. The Victorian Gambling and Casino Control Commission (VGCCC) alleges staff at the Preston Hotel allowed a 16-year-old to access electronic betting terminals and place bets on six occasions, between May
The operators of a well-known Daylesford hotel are facing court, accused of underpaying nearly 100 staff over a two-year period. Late last week the Fair Work Ombudsman revealed accusations against Louise Maree and Travis Francis Melotte, alleging they owe more than $300k in wages to 97 people who worked for them at the Hotel Frangos and Café Koukla,
Developers who illegally demolished the cherished Punch Bowl Inn of Hurst Green, have been fined and ordered to rebuild the heritage-listed landmark to original plans, from the rubble. Built near the crest of a hillock on Longridge Road, in the county of Hurst Green, Clitheroe, in the UK, the Punch Bowl has been servicing locals
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The legal battle between Laundy Hotels and Colin Parras has finally concluded, seeing the High Court rule that the sale three years ago of the Quarryman’s Hotel should have proceeded. Arthur Laundy and co bought the Quarryman’s in 2011 for around $3.5 million, shortly after selling the nearby Harlequin. In late 2019 Laundy Hotels listed
Two men have avoided jail time after violent incidents against staff and others, spurred by drugs, alcohol and animated affections. Early January 2022, 21-year-old boilermaker William Hayes was socialising with his girlfriend and two other friends at the Huskisson Hotel, in Jervis Bay, from around 2-5 pm. According to facts tendered to court, the group
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