{"id":1054,"date":"2012-10-29T10:41:21","date_gmt":"2012-10-29T10:41:21","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2022-10-04T16:16:42","modified_gmt":"2022-10-04T20:16:42","slug":"hiv-non-disclosure-and-criminal-law-implications-of-recent-supreme-court-of-canada-decisions-for-people-living-with-hiv","status":"publish","type":"publication22","link":"https:\/\/www.hivlegalnetwork.ca\/site\/hiv-non-disclosure-and-criminal-law-implications-of-recent-supreme-court-of-canada-decisions-for-people-living-with-hiv\/","title":{"rendered":"HIV non-disclosure and criminal law: Implications of recent Supreme Court of Canada decisions for people living with HIV"},"content":{"rendered":"On October 5, 2012, the Supreme Court of Canada released its decisions in the cases of <i>Mabior<\/i> and <i>D.C.<\/i> The Court decided that people living with HIV have a legal duty, under the criminal law, to disclose their HIV-positive status to sexual partners before having sex that poses a &#8220;realistic possibility&#8221; of HIV transmission. Not disclosing in such circumstances means a person could be convicted of aggravated sexual assault. This document explains what the Court&#8217;s decisions mean for people living with HIV, although many questions remain.<\/p>\n<div class=\"pageFooter\">\n<h1>Related Publications<\/h1>\n<h2><a href=\"..\/?p=1053\">HIV non-disclosure and the criminal law: An analysis of two recent decisions of the Supreme Court of Canada<\/a><\/h2>\n<\/div>\n<p><!-- xanadu --><p class=\"download-link-button\"><a class=\"download-link en\" title=\"HIV non-disclosure and criminal law: Implications of recent Supreme Court of Canada decisions for people living with HIV\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hivlegalnetwork.ca\/site\/download\/12724\/?tmstv=1776884992\" rel=\"nofollow\">\r\n\tDownload<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"menu_order":0,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"publication_topics":[148],"publication_type":[178],"publication_language":[184,185],"class_list":["post-1054","publication22","type-publication22","status-publish","hentry","publication_topics-criminalization","publication_type-qa","publication_language-english","publication_language-french"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hivlegalnetwork.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/publication22\/1054","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hivlegalnetwork.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/publication22"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hivlegalnetwork.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/publication22"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hivlegalnetwork.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/www.hivlegalnetwork.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/publication22\/1054\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22304,"href":"https:\/\/www.hivlegalnetwork.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/publication22\/1054\/revisions\/22304"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hivlegalnetwork.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1054"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"publication_topics","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hivlegalnetwork.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/publication_topics?post=1054"},{"taxonomy":"publication_type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hivlegalnetwork.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/publication_type?post=1054"},{"taxonomy":"publication_language","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hivlegalnetwork.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/publication_language?post=1054"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}