In January, PubTIC reported that Emanuel Brian Dillon, director of two Western Australian pubs, dodged a bullet to stay in business. He copped $140K in fines for what police allege were more than 2,700 breaches of the Liquor Act between 2019 and 2021. Following a complaint from police in 2021, Western Australia’s Liquor Commission launched […]
Justice has been served on a Gladstone man who assaulted the Central Lane Hotel’s manager in 2024. At 3:30am one September morning, former truck driver Jordan Dallas King, 23, entered the hotel’s gaming area and demanded to be served a drink. The manager refused him service and continued counting the night’s takings. King repeated his
The fashion label owners of Paddington’s Village Inn have lost their court appeal to convert the site into a flagship store, as the pub’s trade benefits from the community outrage. Located near the corner of Glenmore Road and Oxford Street, overlooking the unofficial home to some of Australia’s best fashion brands, at The Intersection, the
A Sydney man accused of assaulting staff and damaging several poker machines at the Hurley Group’s Arkaba Hotel has been released into home detention, after being detained by workers. Around 2pm on Sunday afternoon police were called to the Hotel in Fullarton, responding to reports of a disturbance. Samuel William Ajal, 34, from Guildford in
The stately Royal Melbourne Hotel has been exonerated in a court case where a patron sued the pub and an assailant for injuries sustained in an altercation. Around 10pm on 30 May 2018, Rene Van Rullen was in the venue with a friend and work colleague, Daniel Howes, at a table beside Peter Sheppard, who
Police have arrested and charged two men over a series of crimes, hitting seven pubs in Sydney and the mid-north coast with attempted and mostly successful armed robberies. It is alleged that around 10.20am Monday, 26 August, an armed hold-up was attempted at the Sands Hotel in Maroubra, when a man armed with a firearm
A magistrate has opted to dismiss all charges against the driver of a car that crashed into the outdoor area of a Daylesford pub last year, with families and survivors challenging the ‘injustice’. According to police and witnesses, around 6pm on 5 November a white BMW X5 mounted a kerb and drove across a grassed
The forces behind developers Virtical and Core Asset Development have lost in their attempt to sue the prior owner of the historic Hotel Australasia over supposedly contracted works not completed. The heritage-listed Hotel was built 1904, located in the idyllic precinct of Eden, on the NSW south coast. After serving the community for more than
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An assault in a pub in north-west Adelaide earlier this month has seen a man die and his accused assailant’s charges escalated. According to police, 29-year-old Matthew Hawkins allegedly punched 35-year-old local Luke Sweetman in the head, shortly after midnight on 10 August at the Peninsula Hotel Motel in Taperoo. Emergency services were called and
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 on Oxford Street for $22 million late 2020, and the following month picked up the
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