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The day teabagging dipped its way into legal history

27 Aug 05:45am

Filed under: Army, Defence Force, High Court, Law, Tea Bags

It is safe to assume that Australia has the only high court in the world to have an important case of constitutional and military law decided over an incident of “teabagging.”

Teabags in a more appropriate context

Following the High Court’s decision in Lane v Morrison on the illegitimacy of the Australian Military Court, the practice of “teabagging” will be forever etched in the legal lexicon of this country.

While Big Brother’s turkeyslapping incident introduced us to genital based attempts at humour taking hold of the national agenda, turkeyslapping was only brought up in Parliament while teabagging made it all the way to the High Court - and won.

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Peter from Sydney says:

08:41am | 30/08/09

The thing was a close call. French CJ almost did not give it a run. Now they have to wake up to the hangover they have created for themselves, and move ever so slightly, to the position that any Court constituted by one Officer, appointed no matter how by a… Read more »
Jack Tar says:

10:05am | 28/08/09

I’ve been on the wrong end of the old Kangaroo Court a few times myself and know firsthand that a lot of what goes on is hardly justice in any sense of the word. 4 seperate charges where all evidence showed innocent. And yet still charged at the end of… Read more »

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