Legal

O’HARAS COLLECT WIN IN COVID COURT CHALLENGE

Posted on January 19th, 2022 by Clyde Mooney
The O’Hara Group has successfully challenged a fine from the state regulator over COVID regulations, at Parramatta’s Collector Hotel. Following the first tranche of lockdowns, the O’Haras were forced to reconfigure aspects of their venues, particularly the spacing of machines

MAN ARRESTED OVER ROYAL EXCHANGE BLAZE

Posted on December 10th, 2021 by Clyde Mooney
A man has been arrested and charged over a fire at the Royal Exchange Hotel in Marrickville on Tuesday that endangered 20 people inside and killed the pub cat, Whiskey. Police and fire services were called to the Lewis Hotels

MARRICKVILLE’S ROYAL RAZED

Posted on December 8th, 2021 by Clyde Mooney
A suspected arson attack has seriously damaged Lewis Hotels’ Royal Exchange Hotel in Marrickville. Around 20 people, including staff, patrons and residents in rooms upstairs, had to be evacuated via fire truck ladder through a window after the fire took

WOMAN SENTENCED OVER GLASSING IN MACKAY PUB

Posted on November 24th, 2021 by Clyde Mooney
A 22-year-old woman has been convicted and sentenced for glassing a 35-year-old work colleague at Langford’s Hotel in Mackay. Kytarna Leyland-Rice, a BHP workforce co-ordinator, hit a glass she was holding into the head of another man in her work

LONG-TIME EMPLOYEE CONVICTED OVER NEARLY $100K THEFT

Posted on November 17th, 2021 by Clyde Mooney
A long-time employee of the Calamvale Hotel in Brisbane has been convicted and sentenced over embezzlement of nearly $100k from the business. Simon Te Mahia Phoenix Aramoana, 26, of Marsden, was originally employed as a security guard at the pub.

NOT ALL ROSES IN THE SUNSHINE STATE

Posted on September 10th, 2021 by Clyde Mooney
In vivid contrast to the shuttered venues of NSW and Victoria, the stresses of pandemic life have helped a few too many Queenslanders into court for anti-social behaviour. Enjoying a night out at the Globe Hotel, 20-year-old Bundaberg man Jackson

SAND HILL ROAD HEAD $10bn IN COVID INSURANCE CLAIMS

Posted on June 25th, 2021 by Clyde Mooney
Pub frontrunners Sand Hill Road are prominent in a posse of Australian businesses seeking the payment of interruption insurance over COVID-19, with battles already being fought in the High Court.  Sand Hill Road (SHR) owns and operates nine pubs in

VENUE MANAGER SENTENCED OVER THEFT OF $60K

Posted on May 31st, 2021 by Clyde Mooney
A former venue manager at TSG Geelong has been sentenced over the theft of more than $60k to fund a gambling habit. 36-year-old Adrian Benne worked as a manager at The Sporting Globe in Geelong for several years, until cash

EVICTED PATRON RETURNS WITH CHAINSAW

Posted on May 28th, 2021 by Clyde Mooney
A disgruntled patron evicted from the famed Daly Waters pub later returned with a chainsaw and bad intentions. NT Police watch commander Sonia Kennon said pub owner Tim Carter called the police around 11:30pm, on 20 May. A 44-year-old man had

COURT RULES ON LAUNDY’S QUARRYMAN’S QUAGMIRE

Posted on May 14th, 2021 by Clyde Mooney
A controversial case of buyer’s remorse has been settled in the NSW Supreme Court this week, bringing judgement on a dispute over the sale of the Quarryman’s Hotel by Laundy Hotels to the Parras family. More than a year since