LAW 122 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Royal Opera House, Rylands V Fletcher, Crown Attorney
25 Oct 2017
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Case breif 4. 1 pg 84 (bar fight with bouncer intentional tort force) The plaintiff was escorted out of a bar after becoming drunk and belligerent. Once outside, he struck one of the bouncers from behind. In retaliation, that bouncer knocked him to the ground with a kick to the head. Another bouncer then climbed on top of the plaintiff and punched him in the face for about five minutes. The plaintiff suffered a number of injuries and consequently sued the company that owned the bar: the court held that the bar"s employees were entitled to use reasonable force to remove the obnoxious customer from the premises. It further held that the plaintiff was partially to blame for the disturbance because he had struck one of the bouncers from behind: however, the court also found that the employees used excessive force.
