Legal Eyes
Explore cases, legal issues and current events through the legal eyes of Shannon Gunn Emery, a lawyer with Gunn Law Group in Edmonton. With her decades of experience in law, Shannon will help you discover the touching, bizarre, sad, interesting, exhilarating and puzzling aspects of practice that have kept her excited about being a lawyer. Your own legal eyes will be opened as she shares stories and reflections based on true experiences in criminal law, family law and administrative law. Names and details have been changed to protect the innocent, as well as the not-so-innocent.**Thanks to Ciara Prithipaul for the podcast artwork. You can find more of Ciara's work on Instagram at @la__tigresse__ or on their website at Ciarahavishya.com. **Thanks too to Richard Atmo (aka Garuda1982) for the music he created and allows me to share through Freesound.
Legal Eyes
Legal Eyes-ing Sex Work
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.