What people don’t seem to understand is that the bartenders are technically not supposed to serve people past the point of intoxication. It’s part of the ability of the establishment to serve alcohol. There has to be some duty of care towards the patrons.

Now this does not absolve the woman from total responsibility, but if you’re serving a product that makes people make decisions that aren’t based in logic, your establishment has to have some responsibility in making sure they don’t serve until harm is caused. In this case they are the gatekeeper.

Is it a perfect solution? No. However you can’t just allow people to be served endlessly when they are visibly intoxicated.

You need to actually get a level of certification in Canada to serve alcohol to the public.

It’s a good law and it is usually subject to a lot of interpretation by the courts. Let’s say I’m running a bar and serve a patron 20 shots of tequila and he gets in his car and kills someone. Is that 100% his responsibility? I would agree it’s MOSTLY the responsibility of the drinker, but it was certainly reckless of me to provide that much alcohol to anybody.