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Queensland judge searches for lap dance
Searching for 'lap dance' online isn't unusual for some, but a Queensland magistrate who used a web dictionary to define the term may think twice before he Googles again.The Southport District…
Lawyers Weekly
Searching for 'lap dance' online isn't unusual for some, but a Queensland magistrate who used a web dictionary to define the term may think twice before he Googles again.
While the nature of 'touting' was settled by the Oxford English, the magistrate didn't give the defence a chance to dispute Wiktionary's definition of lap dance as "A very erotic form of entertainment typically at a gentlemen's club, where the naked or nearly-nude individual is dancing essentially on the customer's lap".
It seems quite definitive to Folklaw, but Judge John Newton ruled there had been a denial of 'natural justice', a term still looking for a Wiktionary entry, as lawyers had not been allowed to argue over what a lap dance really means - a topic that is no doubt hotly debated by them on a regular basis outside of court...
