Judging Sex Work Judging Sex Work
Landmark Cases in Canadian Law

Judging Sex Work

Bedford and the Attenuation of Rights

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Publisher Description

In Bedford, the Supreme Court struck down prohibitions against communicating in public for the purpose of sex work, living on its avails, and working from a bawdy house. Its narrow constitutional reasoning nevertheless allowed Parliament to respond by adopting the “end demand” or “Nordic Model” of sex work regulation, an approach widely criticized for failing to ensure sex worker safety. Judging Sex Work takes stock of the Bedford decision, arguing that the constitutional issue was improperly framed. Because the most vulnerable sex workers have no realistic choice but to commit the impugned offences, they already possess a legal defence. The constitutionality of the sex work laws should therefore have been assessed by their application to those who choose sex work, an approach that militates in favour of upholding these laws based on current jurisprudence. While this approach leads to the former restrictions on sex work being constitutional, it also has the salutary effect of forcing litigants to consider a more pressing question: Can sex work be rationalized as a criminal matter at all?

GENRE
Professional & Technical
RELEASED
2024
February 15
LANGUAGE
EN
English
LENGTH
304
Pages
PUBLISHER
UBC Press
SELLER
eBOUND Canada
SIZE
2
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