The Jordan Case
2002
S v Jordan and Others (Sex Workers Education and Advocacy Task Force and Others as Amici Curiae)
The decriminalisation of sex workers
The law stated that anyone who provided sex for reward was guilty of a criminal offence. This law was challenged on the basis that it invaded the privacy rights of sex workers and also discriminated unfairly against them as women. The majority of the Court rejected both these challenges. In a joint dissent, Justices Sachs and O’Regan accepted that the women attenuated their privacy rights by offering their bodies to the
