Crime
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Should the hospitality industry be taking the threat of of staff fraud more seriously? Nick Huber looks at the growing trend of pre-employment screening.
Posted: 06 August 2010 | 15:28
What happens when you are faced with a substantial legal claim but you do not have the money or financial backing to fight the case in court? Litigation specialist Razi Mireskandari explains the funding options available.
Posted: 06 August 2010 | 10:19
It's hard to believe that it's five years this month since IOC president Jacques Rogge awarded the 2012 Olympic Games to London. Back then, the run-in to the London Games felt like a marathon. This week, with the opening ceremony just two years away, it feels more like a sprint.
Posted: 02 August 2010 | 16:04
A round-up of the weekend's news affecting the hospitality industry. News includes: Duncan Banatyne hits out at larcenous guests; restaurateur sued by clamping firm for warning off its customers; Claudia Lawrence family pin hopes on documentary as police scale back search and more…
Posted: 02 August 2010 | 10:17
An unemployed conman who carried out an "elaborate and outrageous scam" to sell London's Ritz hotel (left) for £250m has been jailed for five years. Anthony Lee, a jobless lorry driver from Yorkshire, found victims interested in the iconic hotel in Piccadilly and duped them into handing over £1m, London's Southwark Crown Court heard.
Posted: 27 July 2010 | 14:57
A jobless lorry driver found guilty of a scam to sell the Ritz hotel faces an "immediate and quite substantial custodial sentence". Anthony Lee from Goole, Yorkshire, convinced victims that he was an associate of the reclusive billionaire Barclay brothers...
Posted: 02 July 2010 | 16:20
Thirteen room attendants working at a five-star London hotel have won back pay and damages after it emerged they were being paid below the minimum wage. Last July a joint investigation by the BBC's Newsnight and PM programmes revealed how contract cleaning company Hotelcare...
Posted: 29 June 2010 | 15:07
A bungling hotel worker who threatened his colleagues at knife point, tied them up and robbed the contents of the hotel safe but then forgot to take what he had stolen with him was jailed this week. The raid carried out by Christopher Ross...
Posted: 22 June 2010 | 12:35
Hilton Worldwide has lost its bid to dismiss a lawsuit by rival hotel operator, Starwood Hotels & Resorts Worldwide, that accused it and two former Starwood...
Posted: 22 June 2010 | 10:30
A round-up of the weekend's news affecting the hospitality industry. News includes: Premier Inn bans vuvuzelas to protect customers sleep; late-night bars to pay the cost of policing drunken disorder; Qatari government interested in Savoy hotel and Grosvenor House and more
Posted: 21 June 2010 | 10:30
A 26-year-old man has been arrested after a junior chef formerly employed at the Star Inn in North Yorkshire alleged he had been assaulted while working there. The former demi chef de partie at the restaurant alleged ...
Posted: 17 June 2010 | 16:19
A round-up of the weekend's news affecting the hospitality industry. News includes: veteran food critic Egon Ronay dies; shot Cumbrian landlord returns home after operations; hospitality wins awards in Queen’s Birthday Honours and more…
Posted: 14 June 2010 | 10:10
A plot to sell the Ritz hotel in London for the bargain price of £250m was a scam which involved targeting people interested in the high-stakes world of dealing in trophy properties, Southwark Crown Court has heard.
Posted: 08 June 2010 | 18:09
A chef from Surrey has been given a life sentence for killing his wife with a griddle pan, dumping her body in a freezer for three years. Unemployed Peter Wallner, formerly of Hamilton Avenue, Cobham, was convicted at the Old Bailey of killing Melanie Wallner, according to the BBC.
Posted: 04 June 2010 | 15:37
The owner of the renowned Woolpack Inn pub in Eskdale, Cumbria, is among those reported to be injured in a series of shootings in the area in which at least five people have been killed. Harry Berger, is understood to be in a stable condition after being shot in the arm.
Posted: 03 June 2010 | 12:30
Former Durley House Hotel employee paid huge bar bills at exclusive London clubs with guests' card details - and passed on numbers to associates
Posted: 13 May 2010 | 16:57
Our weekly round of of the week's hospitality news includes: Majestic Hotel blaze: missing man named, Duncan Bannatyne unveils plans to expand Charlton House hotel;US wine merchant sues Gordon Ramsay over £27,000 of unpaid bills and more...
Posted: 07 May 2010 | 15:39
A champagne-loving junior hotel boss who ran up a £14,000 bar bill at an exclusive Mayfair club after stealing guests’ credit card details has been jailed for 18 months. Private-school-educated Saad Lakhdar-Ghazal, 23, began working at the luxury Durley House hotel, Sloane Street...
Posted: 07 May 2010 | 12:47
Celebrity chef Gordon Ramsay is being sued by a US wine merchant over more than $40,000 (£27,000) of unpaid bills at his eponymous restaurant in New York.
Wineberry America is suing Ramsay and Blackstone Group,...
Posted: 05 May 2010 | 12:51
Michelin-starred chef Jean Christophe Ansanay-Alex’s unfair dismissal case against his former business partner at L’Ambassade de l’Ile has been adjourned by six months until September. The French chef appeared before the London Central Employment Tribunal this week...
Posted: 22 April 2010 | 18:08
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