<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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While the man that threw a glass at TV personality Redfoo escapes with probation, the consequences continue for the hotel where the incident took place. Last August Arian Berisha was charged with assault after throwing a glass at Stefan Kendall Gordy, aka Redfoo, in Double Bay’s Golden Sheaf Hotel, around 12:30am. The American singer and
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
Police have charged a Kings Cross bouncer over a punch to an aggressive patron enraged over being denied entry at lock-out time. Around 1:30 am Tuesday, 14 April, security at a hotel on William Street in Kings Cross refused two men entry. The men allegedly threw glass bottles toward the guards as they walked away.
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On Monday Orange Local Court fined a man $1300 over his drunken behaviour and failure to leave a local hotel. Mechanic Benjamin Gray was asked by staff to leave the hotel in the early hours of 4 April, but argued with security outside. Passing police on a routine patrol spotted Gray in what they described
Warrnambool Magistrate’s Court this week handed down sentence to a man who wounded four people in a fight but was too drunk to remember. On November 28 last year Andrew John Zibell reportedly drank a “slab of beer” before going to the Merino Hotel with two women at 4pm. Police were called to a fight
A landmark case that saw hotel staff charged after a drunk patron died in a road crash has reached trial, but the hangover isn’t over yet. In mid-2013 Kangaroo Island resident Anthony Read crashed his ute into a tree driving from the Penneshaw Hotel, where he had reportedly consumed 22 drinks before being sold a
In what could have been a scene from underbelly, a pack of nightclub bouncers from Melbourne’s upmarket CQ Hotel chased down and nearly stabbed to death a patron with his own knife. Career bouncer Remzi Orcanoglu was granted bail in Melbourne Magistrates’ Court Tuesday, facing charges including ‘intentionally causing serious injury with gross violence’ after
A pub in suburban Camden went through the PR wringer this week as shock-hungry media latched onto a police report that mentioned a “glassing”. PubTIC contacted the Camden Hotel, which initially resisted discussion on the subject, after a number of publications had trotted out a blurry account of the night that painted the pub as
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