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Publication Date: November 13, 2025 - 18:00
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Self-defence can include ejecting guests who outstay welcome, B.C. judge rules
November 13, 2025
A B.C. Supreme Court judge says self-defence rules that allow people to arm themselves against an intruder can also include situations where someone refuses to leave after initially being welcomed.
The ruling comes in the case of a B.C. man acquitted of manslaughter by a jury in July, after he accidentally stabbed and killed his brother who had become an unwelcome guest in his home on the Ditidaht First Nation reserve on Vancouver Island.
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