Rockhampton District Court last week tried the case of two ice users that perpetrated a violent, “gratuitous” robbery at the Brunswick Hotel. Dylan Warcon and Travis Anderson were charged with robbery in company and with personal violence after the assaulted another patron in the hotel in July last year – dragging him out, bashing him, […]
A contractual dispute over maintenance of a heritage-listed building has forced one of Adelaide’s oldest pubs to shut its doors. Leaseholder Glen Duncan is in the throes of a court hearing over outstanding rent and unattended repairs on the beloved Duke of Brunswick. Duncan reportedly ceased payment of rent in protest to ongoing maintenance and
Shutting for good on Wednesday, Thursday Hugos’ owner and staff fronted a party of Kings Cross stakeholders and a Federal MP to announce intentions of a class action against the NSW Government. As the award-winning cornerstone of Kings Cross closes its doors, the sickening reality of the area’s indiscriminate strangulation has given rise to outrage
A Queensland hotel manager accused of stealing over $60,000 through Keno has pleaded guilty and awaits sentencing. In February PubTIC reported on the case of the manager of the Emerald Hotel, Robert Craig Philips, being charged with offenses based on his alleged theft of $62,530 by way of unpaid Keno bets. Shortly after publishing, the
After a drawn-out prosecution process and lengthy trial, two Tasmanian men have been convicted of changes stemming from a pub fight that resulted in another man’s death. Brothers David Blazely and Mitchell Dowling were drinking at the ALH’s Mowbray Hotel on 17 July, 2013. Another man at the hotel, Tony Brown, reportedly insulted and threatened
The Supreme Court stoush between Justin Hemmes and David Kingston over the Coogee Pavilion has reached an “in-principle agreement”. The pair ended up before the court after Kingston issued several Notices to Merivale in February, citing unauthorised work and rent two days late. Hemmes had spent $12 million on the dilapidated former Coogee Palace and
A Port Macquarie licensee has copped fines and disqualification for ‘unacceptable’ behaviour. Monique Louise Turner, licensee of the Settlers Inn Hotel, pleaded guilty in Port Macquarie Local Court to seven offences under gaming and liquor laws. She was disqualified from holding a liquor licence or managing a venue for a year, and fined $2,300 plus
<TEXT> A hotel in Western Australia has won a landmark Supreme Court battle that could bring a new level of accountability to liquor regulators around the country. Karl Bullers purchased the National Hotel in Fremantle as a ‘vision project’ and invested several million dollars restoring the vacant, fire-damaged heritage building, to cater to “upmarket, mature
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Two former Kings Cross operators have received life bans from holding liquor licences in the “toughest sanctions ever imposed” by the ILGA. Licensee John Barakat and manager Dominic Kaikaty faced a special application by the Office of Liquor Gaming & Racing (OLGR) and NSW Police following repeated breaches of the Liquor Act. The Independent Liquor
A dispute over the sale of Coogee Pavilion could see Merivale’s Justin Hemmes in court against the vendor, former Rothschild CEO David Kingston. An agreement in March last year saw the celebrity operator sign on to take over the former Coogee Palace, in a ‘put & call’ agreement that saw $5 million down and a
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