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London, Ont. court case could challenge Canada's prostitution laws
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Human trafficking charges dropped against London escort agency owners
Human trafficking charges were dropped Wednesday against the owners of a London escort agency whose case is testing the constitutionality of Canada's prostitution laws.
Hamad Anwar and Tiffany Harvey were charged in November 2015 with more than two dozen charges each after their business, Fantasy World Escorts, was shut down by London police.
London, Ont. court case to challenge Canada's prostitution laws
In court Wednesday, lawyers agreed to withdraw most of those charges, leaving only the ones that deal with procuring, advertising and materially benefiting from someone else's sexual services.
That leaves Harvey facing one charge of materially benefiting from the sale of someone's sexual services, and Anwar with the same charge, as well as an additional charge of procuring and advertising someone else's sexual services.
Defence makes case
Those three offences are relatively new, brought in under Canada's 2014 prostitution law, Bill C-36, which criminalize the buying of sex but decriminalizes its sale.
Led by Toronto lawyer James Lockyer, the defence has put forward a motion to argue the constitutionality of those charges, saying it violates sex workers' right to the security of person.
Lockyer has called two witnesses, both academics, whose studies he says have shown that the new law which prohibits advertising someone else's sexual services and penalizes websites that host those advertisements, forces the sex trade underground.
On Thursday, the Crown is expected to call its witnesses, who will testify in support of the Nordic Model, on which Canada's laws are based.
http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/londo...-against-escort-owners-hamad-harvey-1.4536495
Human trafficking charges were dropped Wednesday against the owners of a London escort agency whose case is testing the constitutionality of Canada's prostitution laws.
Hamad Anwar and Tiffany Harvey were charged in November 2015 with more than two dozen charges each after their business, Fantasy World Escorts, was shut down by London police.
London, Ont. court case to challenge Canada's prostitution laws
In court Wednesday, lawyers agreed to withdraw most of those charges, leaving only the ones that deal with procuring, advertising and materially benefiting from someone else's sexual services.
That leaves Harvey facing one charge of materially benefiting from the sale of someone's sexual services, and Anwar with the same charge, as well as an additional charge of procuring and advertising someone else's sexual services.
Defence makes case
Those three offences are relatively new, brought in under Canada's 2014 prostitution law, Bill C-36, which criminalize the buying of sex but decriminalizes its sale.
Led by Toronto lawyer James Lockyer, the defence has put forward a motion to argue the constitutionality of those charges, saying it violates sex workers' right to the security of person.
Lockyer has called two witnesses, both academics, whose studies he says have shown that the new law which prohibits advertising someone else's sexual services and penalizes websites that host those advertisements, forces the sex trade underground.
On Thursday, the Crown is expected to call its witnesses, who will testify in support of the Nordic Model, on which Canada's laws are based.
http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/londo...-against-escort-owners-hamad-harvey-1.4536495
A York prof who has defended women says you could drive a truck through bill C36 with its constitutional holes. Stupid bill passed at last minute when they had a year to come up with a sound one then passed by a useless rubber stamp house of lords or senate as we call it here
