Legal

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

PATRON HIT WITH AN AXE OVER POKIES WINNINGS

Posted on May 14th, 2021 by Clyde Mooney
A patron at a Parramatta pub has been hospitalised following an alleged robbery in the toilet. Emergency services were called around 11am Thursday to Parramatta’s Commercial Hotel, to reports of a robbery and injury to a man who was thought

FAIR WORK PENALISES PUBLICAN OVER FAILURE TO BACK-PAY

Posted on April 23rd, 2021 by Clyde Mooney
The Fair Work Ombudsman has secured a $3,500 penalty for the former operator of the Farmers Arms Hotel for breaching the Fair Work Act by failing to comply with a Compliance Notice over employee pay. FWO inspectors commenced an investigation

MANAGER WHO STOLE $85k FINDS SYMPATHETIC SENTENCE

Posted on March 12th, 2021 by Clyde Mooney
A manager caught misappropriating over $85k from an ALH pub has received a sympathetic sentence to her latest conviction, due to serious health concerns. The 37-year-old woman [name withheld] worked at ALH’s Wilsonton Hotel in Toowoomba, with duties including banking

MAN RAMS PATRONS INTO PUB WITH 4WD

Posted on March 3rd, 2021 by Clyde Mooney
CCTV footage has emerged of a man driving a 4WD into the front of a Darwin pub, through a group of patrons that had just beaten him outside. The video obtained by 9News shows several people punching, dragging and stomping

CORKMAN PUB COWBOY DEVELOPERS OFF TO JAIL

Posted on December 18th, 2020 by Clyde Mooney
The so-called ‘cowboy’ developers that illegally demolished Melbourne’s historic Corkman’s Irish Pub have been jailed for a month and ordered to pay over $400,000 in fines and legal costs. In 2016 news broke of a fire in the pub, which