It looks like this judge may be slowly learning something about running a court:
"Over the past five months, Ms Gilmour has sent the office police statements alleging incidents including a security manager being "glassed" and a patron being struck on the head with a billiard cue. Other cases involve swearing at and hitting police.
Ms Gilmour first wrote to the office in May after she became fed up with dealing with three or four hotel-related incidents a week.
"Generally speaking, people of good character holding down good jobs … were all coming in asking for 'section 10s' - no recorded conviction," she said.
She said that for a while she thought "fair enough" but it became so prevalent that she had to stop doing section 10s and start fining people as a deterrent.
"I think the one that started me off was this very nice 23-year-old [with a] full-time job who had done well at school and never been in trouble with police before," she said.
He picked up a female police officer and threw her against a window after he became drunk in a pub and was asked to leave. (
Didn't take much to wake her up, then!! )
Ms Gilmour said she was fining people $500 for urinating in the street - "a very expensive leak".
In one incident, a man returned home to Coogee with his four-year-old child to see a man urinating on the security keypad of his block of units. "People shouldn't have to put up with that," she said.
She said the first thing defendants were saying was: "We wouldn't have done anything wrong except for the state of intoxication."
To her surprise, the department and the Government are eagerly supporting her plan."
from:
http://www.smh.com.au/news/national/...036415587.html