Ontario Appeal Court nixes brothel ban; gives government one year to rewrite law

[evewithanapple]

A ban on brothels puts prostitutes at risk and is therefore unconstitutional, Ontario's top court ruled Monday.

However, the Ontario Court of Appeal upheld the ban on soliciting as a reasonable way to protect communities.

It also "read in" wording to the criminalization of living on the avails of prostitution to make it clear that exploitation of

Comments

[lacunaz]

It's too bad that "communication with the intent of prostitution" is still illegal, which I don't fully get. Does that law only apply if they are outside? For street prostitution?

Also lol, Tim Hudak, the Leader of the Opposition in Ontario, is super pressed about this decision and is planning to ~appeal~. I really doubt that he's going to come up with anything that will dazzle the judges into submission, but okay.

[katrinar]

hudak is an idiot.

[lacunaz]

His plan appears to just be to go running to the federal MPs and point at the problem until they step in and fiiiiiiiiiiix iiiiiiiiiiit.

[katrinar]

sounds about right.

[magedragonfire]

An article that I read about it earlier this morning suggested that the communication bit only applied in public, yeah. Brothels wouldn't fall against that, except maybe for purposes of advertising or something.