![](https://www.hivjustice.net/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/Supreme_Court_of_Canada-524x377.jpg)
The recent judgment of the Supreme Court of Canada in the case of R v Mabior raises some interesting issues about the criminalization of HIV transmission. The case involved a man who was charged with nine charges of aggravated sexual assault under the Canadian Criminal Code for failure to disclose his HIV status to his sexual partners.