Legal

SUPREME COURT FINDS FOR MA FINANCIAL

Posted on August 16th, 2024 by Clyde Mooney
The NSW Supreme Court has ruled Mark Toma, owner of pub-developer Virtical, to complete the troubled $61 million Taylor Square deal and pay costs to the vendor, MA Financial. The unlisted MA Taylor Square Fund acquired the prominent Courthouse Hotel

AARON NOT ON THE SIDE OF CAUTION

Posted on August 16th, 2024 by Jane Louise
Two bizarre acts of violence outside pubs hit the headlines this week, after an assault in the Melbourne suburb of Epping and an attempted robbery on the Sunshine Coast caught the media’s attention. A man plead guilty to the charge

AUSTRAL HOTEL OPERATORS FIGHT TO STAY

Posted on August 5th, 2024 by Clyde Mooney
The tenants and landlord of the Austral Hotel are in an ongoing legal dispute over whether or not the operators can continue at their investment, after disputes over an alleged renewal agreement. In 2020 Brettski Stewart and Ian Stewart, cousins,

VCAT WIN FOR MIDDLE PARK HOTEL SEES BLUE SKY

Posted on July 31st, 2024 by Clyde Mooney
AVC’s Middle Park Hotel is moving up, hurdling a protracted battle with locals in VCAT for expansion and a rooftop terrace in the ‘quaint’ central Melbourne precinct. National pub operator Australian Venue Co looked to undertake one of its signature

MAN ARRESTED OVER OXFORD HOTEL ARSON

Posted on July 29th, 2024 by Clyde Mooney
A man has been arrested over the fire that tore into the accommodation area of the historic Oxford Hotel, which has been closed since late 2023 over a tenancy dispute. Around 7am on Saturday emergency services were summoned to the

POLICE SWOOP ON PATRON BANDIT

Posted on July 5th, 2024 by Clyde Mooney
A man faced Court this week over a violent armed robbery of a Lyneham pub on the weekend, using a knife to intimidate staff and making off with cash and alcohol. According to a police statement, around 9.40pm on Saturday

UNDIES BANDIT ON THE LOOSE

Posted on May 31st, 2024 by Clyde Mooney
A would-be bandit wearing budgie smugglers on his head is on the run from police, after an attempted hold-up of a pub in Port Melbourne. According to police, the man entered ALH’s Rex Hotel around 2.15am on Wednesday, 22 May.

HOTELIER CONVICTED OF STEALING MILLIONS FROM ABORIGINAL TRUST

Posted on May 29th, 2024 by Clyde Mooney
A septuagenarian hotelier and financial advisor has been found guilty of swindling nearly $3 million from the Yugunga-Nya trust, supposedly to prop up his pub.   Thomas Graham Greenaway operated as trustee to the charitable fund, distributing mining royalties to

OFFICER HIT AND RUN BY STOLEN CAR AT BURVALE HOTEL

Posted on May 24th, 2024 by Clyde Mooney
Two men have been arrested after a stolen car was used to hit a senior police officer attempting to stop a getaway, in the carpark of the Burvale Hotel in Melbourne’s east. According to investigators, the men stole a white

ARMED BANDIT ARRESTED IN DUMPSTER

Posted on May 10th, 2024 by Clyde Mooney
Police tracked down and arrested a man in a dumpster, accused of an alleged armed robbery at a western Sydney pub in the early hours of Wednesday. Around 12.40am on 8 May police received reports of an armed robbery at