Legal

BOAT HOUSE BUCKS BRAWL SENDS GROOM TO BIG HOUSE

Posted on September 30th, 2019 by Clyde Mooney
A magistrate has jailed a man that started a brawl outside Patonga Boat House earlier this year, triggered when he and his bucks party were refused entry. On 23 February Joshua Norman Bovis, along with father Michael Andrew Bovis and

POLICE BLITZ ON SUSPECTS IN GAMING ROOM ROBBERIES

Posted on September 30th, 2019 by Clyde Mooney
An inter-agency taskforce involving more than 90 police officers executed coordinated raids at 58 properties, in relation to a scourge of gaming room robberies in South Australia. Police report armed robberies at 26 gaming rooms in the State since the

UNWANTED PATRON TO FACE MANY CHARGES OVER WEEKEND ANTICS

Posted on September 4th, 2019 by Clyde Mooney
An incident over the weekend in Sydney’s south highlights the unpredictable nature of some people, as an unwanted patron finds himself facing nine new charges. Around 7pm on Saturday a 24-year-old local man got into an argument with bar staff

PUB BRAWL KILLER ORDERED TO PAY FAMILY COMPENSATION

Posted on August 5th, 2019 by Clyde Mooney
The coward punch killer of teenager Patrick Cronin at the Windy Mile Hotel has been ordered to pay over $170k compensation to the family by the Victorian Supreme Court. The ruling is a hard-fought win for the surviving relatives of

POLICE HUNT ARMED MAN OVER WEEKEND BURGLARY

Posted on July 22nd, 2019 by Clyde Mooney
Central West District police are investigating an armed robbery and assault that took place early Saturday morning at an Orange hotel. A male cleaner at the Victoria Hotel in Orange was bailed up by an intruder, reportedly armed with a

VENUES BUSTED FOR INTOX AND MINOR GAMING

Posted on July 15th, 2019 by Clyde Mooney
Regulators have kick-started the financial year with decisions against two licensed venues, over allowing intoxication, and a minor operating a gaming machine. The NSW District Court last week heard an appeal from the licensee of Bathurst’s Elephant & Castle Hotel

TWO MEN SENTENCED OVER COWARDLY KILLING

Posted on July 10th, 2019 by Clyde Mooney
Two men have been jailed for causing the death of a man in a drunken act of cowardice outside a Newman pub. In August 2016, 45-year-old Nathan Haynes was with friends at big regional pub the Newman Hotel, aka The

PUB ACCEPTS $640k TAX DEBT

Posted on July 10th, 2019 by Clyde Mooney
The proprietors of well-known Brisbane pub Gilhooleys have dropped a legal bid against the ATO disputing its large outstanding tax bill. The Australian Taxation Office (ATO) was seeking by statutory demand $641,604 over unpaid self-assessed GST and Pay As You

ARISTOCRAT TAKING AINSWORTH TO COURT

Posted on July 8th, 2019 by Clyde Mooney
Poker machine giants Aristocrat and Ainsworth are headed to Federal Court in a battle over alleged breaches of intellectual property law. Aristocrat Technologies initiated legal proceedings last week against Ainsworth Game Technology (AGT) for what is sees as strategic theft

PATRON FOILS BANDIT WITH MACHETE

Posted on July 8th, 2019 by Clyde Mooney
CCTV caught a patron fighting off a machete-wielding bandit in a Gold Coast pub with a stool and a pot plant. Local Andrew Ormsby was enjoying an evening in the Mermaid Beach Tavern around 12:45am Friday when he heard a