A New Zealand man who felt that a sex worker
violated the country’s Consumer Guarantees Act by not completing a sex spray
with him has had his ensuing law suit thrown out of court for insufficient
evidence.
The customer and the
prostitute who were identified as Mr N and Ms N in court documents had been
involved in a two-month sexual arrangement when their last encounter ended in a
quarrel at a brothel in February 2012. Ms N said she had attempted to return Mr
N’s money and a mobile phone he had given her to set up their weekly meetings,
but he refused.
Mr N then sued for
$70,000 in compensation and damages, claiming that Ms N had “gained unjust
enrichment” and violated consumer laws. An infuriated Justice Peter Woodhouse
dismissed Mr N’s claim, calling it a “sinister
use of the court’s processes”.
“Not only am I
satisfied the proceedings are frivolous but I also believe they are vexatious,”
the judge said. A doubly unhappy ending for Mr N in this case, it seems.
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