The Supreme Court of Canada said it will review a lower court decision, Thursday, which gave Ontario’s sex workers the legal right to work in brothels and hire bodyguards and drivers.

In March 2012, the lower court ruling said some of the country’s anti-prostitution rules put unconstitutional restrictions on prostitutes’ ability to protect themselves, and that the ban on brothels increased the dangers for sex workers, forcing them to work on the streets.

The Supreme Court will review this, along with a cross-appeal by three former and current sex trade workers on the soliciting ban.

Osgoode Hall’s Associate Professor of law Allan Young is involved in the court battle, and explained why it’s an important decision.

“This was a case that we had full expectation in March of 2007 when we filed, that it would be heard by the Supreme Court. There’s no surprises here,” he said.

Dominatrix Terri-Jean Bedford, who began this process with two others, said she is not finished fighting.

“I was called to be a face in the name for a very important issue,” she said. “I’m coming to get Stephen Harper. It should be concluded right around election time I would imagine.”

Once the case is reviewed and a ruling is issued, the law would apply across Canada.

For now, a stay on legalizing brothels is in place. Young estimates it could take about one year before the next step comes up.