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Dan Barker & Peter A Walker

Hearing to consider overturn of Edinburgh’s strip club ban begins

The battle to overturn Edinburgh’s ban on strip clubs has reached the courts, with a judge set to decide if the nil-cap policy is legal.

A union representing exotic dancers and the clubs set to be banned made their cases against the City of Edinburgh Council’s vote earlier this year to set the maximum number of sexual entertainment venues at zero.

Aidan O’Neill KC made the case against the policy on behalf of the city’s strip clubs to Lord Richardson, while David Welsh argued on behalf of the United Sex Workers union (USW) against the cap.

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