Legal Eyes-ing Sex Work

10/22/22 • 48 min

Warning - this episode has a strong academic slant to it; if you are looking for something more on the entertainment side of things, this may not be the right episode for you. The goal of "Legal Eyes-ing sex work" is really to educate the public about a fast-evolving area of law in Canada. Many courts across the country are currently grappling with the issues covered in this podcast. Are you curious why? The laws regarding sex work are definitely complicated. Shannon Gunn Emery, an experienced criminal defence lawyer takes you through some of the sex work laws in Canada and then illustrates how, in real life, those laws impacted four sex workers and the people who were trying to work with them.

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Criminal law has allowed the lawyers at Gunn Law Group to travel a lot. In this podcast, Shannon Gunn Emery shares some of her fun, scary and touching experiences traveling across Canada.
Ps. Shannon has not yet argued cases in Nunavut, New Brunswick and Nova Scotia. If you are charged with impaired driving in one of those places, please call her right away!
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