Sometimes women win! Spearmint Rhino have stopped their legal action against campaign group Not Buying It - and paid their legal fees!!!

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For over a year Spearmint Rhino has been pursuing Not Buying It in court for exposing rampant sexual contact at its clubs. They have now rescinded their action against us, paid us substantial legal costs, written off a previous undertaking we’d made and can never pursue us again on this issue.

And all this without any confidentiality clause so this is all in the public domain.

Rhino had even gotten their own lap dancers to ‘front’ the campaign (half of whom they’d fired), despite a clear conflict of interest.

They’d also tried to hold our CEO personally accountable (for potentially £100,000s in legal costs) in a clear act of intimidation.

A sex industry giant taking on a tiny, unfunded NGO has been a real David and Goliath of a legal case. We are deeply grateful to our incredible pro bono legal team.

Full press release notbuyingit.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/Press-Release-Rhino-Court.pdf

notbuyingit.org.uk/

that's such good news. Thank you for everything you are doing. Amazing

This is great!

Excellent work.

Bloody hell 😄 well done! That’s amazing news. Must have been a terrifying roller coaster of a case.

👏👏👏 great news.

Fantastic! What a wonderful thing to read!

Much needed good news!

Fantastic news! Bloody well done

Well done!

Well done.

Great news, well done!

Great news! Thank you for everything you are doing for women and girls

Fantastic news. Congratulations, OP!

I had no idea. Congratulations on your victory !

Well done - and great that there's no confidentiality clause so it's all in the public domain.

Fantastic news. Well done.

Congratulations and thank you!

👍

Well done it took real strength to stay firm in the face of such intimidation

You are all amazing.

oh dear - I had nothing to do with it!

But a very small group of women who have undertaken a number of actions against clubs like Spearmint Rhino have been very sucessful despite individuals being threatened etc..

If I remember rightly they paid men to go into the club and secretly filmed what really happened. Needless to say the really woke feminists accused them of betraying women by exposing the women employed in the club. It all got very messy and were then sued. So they fact they have not given in is really great.

That's why I added a link to their web site. Please do visit and / or join their mailing list. Often they ask women to write in re licencing issues in local towns etc.

But really wanted to share as i saw the news yesterday and it was on the same day that EVAW and CFWJ got permission (is that the right word?) to challenge the CPS.

www.notbuyingit.org.uk/

This is great!