[Tealeaf]

Doormen have no more 'protection' under law than anyone else; they are entitled to evict someone from private premises but any violence used should be proportionate to the threat. It is no different in many ways, than the current law pertaining to the rights of householders when faced with a burglar, which as most of you are aware is the subject of some controversy.

This is a grey subject and at the end of the day if, as a householder or doorman, you thump someone or worse, and find yourself on the wrong end of an action by the CPS then the outcome will depend on the interpretation of the evidence by the magistrates or the jury.