by Andrew Barbacki | Mar 8, 2011 | offences, prostitution
Apparently the Supreme Court has confirmed a Quebec Court of Appeal judgment holding that payment for nude contact dances constitutes prostitution. Consequently, bars where such activities occur fall under the Criminal Code definition of a “common bawdy...
by Andrew Barbacki | Sep 29, 2010 | prostitution
http://www.montrealgazette.com/news/Federal+prostitution+laws+struck+down/3595018/story.html An early post in this category pointed out the irony in that although prostitution in itself has never been illegal in Canada the common ways of practicing the occupation have...
by Andrew Barbacki | Jul 20, 2009 | prostitution
Neither the Canadian criminal law nor the English law from which it is derived have ever dared to legislate against the right of women- or men for that matter- to sell their bodies. Instead, the law has always restricted itself to prohibiting the nuisance caused by...