Canada: police not responsible for barroom assault

A British Columbia court has ruled against a hockey player injured when another nightclub patron hit him in the head with a bar stool, ruling that the police were under no duty of care to identify the bar in question “as a nuisance to the public, a trap for the unwary, and to take pre-emptive steps to abate the danger it represented to potential patrons”. [Erik Magraken]

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  • A bar so rough that even Canadian hockey players aren’t safe? The place makes the roadhouse in *Roadhouse* look like a wine-and-cheese party.