When drinking gets "out of hand" at their home, is Shari Vetter protective of minors who have been drinking and driving away?
British Columbia, Canada
The following excerpt is from Prevost v. Vetter et al, 2001 BCSC 312 (CanLII):
Shari Vetter was protective of minors who had been drinking at their home. When drinking got "out of hand", she took steps to protect them - offering to have them sleep over, asking them to give up their car keys to prevent them driving away, and on occasion, driving them home if they needed a lift. Those precautions persuade me that she was alert to the danger of minors drinking at their home and driving from it. She established a "paternalistic relationship" (John v. Flynn, supra) with underage drinkers at their home.
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