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Social Host Liability, Personal Injury Vic Singh Maan Social Host Liability, Personal Injury Vic Singh Maan

Bar Fights, Social Host Liability, & BC Personal Injury Law.

“If Mr. X arrives at a pub at around 12:40 a.m. and leaves at or about the 2 a.m. closing time after being served “four beers and four or five shots” and then gets in his car to drive home, could the pub be found to be contributorily negligent if a collision ensued causing injury?”

This was the main question posed by Mr. Justice Funt in Garisto v Goudie, 2021 BCSC 1257 (CanLII).

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