title: South Africa: constitutional court rejects constitutional challenge to law criminalizing prostitution.
abstract: On 9 October 2002, a majority of South Africa's Constitutional Court dismissed appeals from convictions for prostitution and keeping a brothel, rejecting arguments that the law was unconstitutional. However, the minority decision, endorsed by five of eleven judges, found that the provision that made the sex worker but not the client guilty of a criminal offence was discriminatory and should be struck down.
authors.forename: John
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Nelson
mesh_terms: D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D011477:Sex Work / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence*; D013019:South Africa