The owner of Empire bar in Paceville has been fined €900 by the Court of Criminal Appeal for allowing under 16-year-olds into the bar on January 20.

Louise Anne Fauré had been reprimanded by the First Court but the judgement was appealed by the Attorney General.

The Appeals Court found that the first court had applied the wrong article which came into force in 1929 where minors were not allowed to enter bars where barmaids were employed. The Court of Criminal Appeal said that the first court should have applied article 124 of 1995 where minors are not allowed to enter bars, clubs or discos.

The court after taking into consideration that Ms Fauré has already been found guilty of playing excessively loud music in the club on two occasions in August 2007 and allowing 16-year-olds into the club in February of this year, fined Ms Fauré €900. In the judgment Mr Chief Justice Vincent DeGaetano said that allowing minors into such establishments should be taken very seriously.

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