Can a bar owner use force to eject an uncooperative patron who refuses to leave the premises?
Saskatchewan, Canada
The following excerpt is from R. v. Beaudin, 2003 SKPC 12 (CanLII):
[32] The important powers are the right to refuse service and the right to request that a person leave the licensed premises. The statute is silent on what force may be used to eject an uncooperative patron who refuses to leave. The common law says that the staff may remove a person forcibly so long as the staff act in a reasonable manner. The bar owner bears the risk that might flow from this action to eject a patron in both civil and criminal terms. ( See the judgment of Noble, J. in Thoms and Thoms v. Kulyk and Kulyk (1981) 1981 CanLII 2139 (SK QB), 12 Sask. R. 320 at 330.)
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