Editing Lady Chatterley's Lover (section)

=== Canada ===
{{see also|Censorship in Canada}}
In 1962, [[McGill University]] Professor of Law and Canadian [[modernist]] poet [[F. R. Scott]] appeared before the [[Supreme Court of Canada]] to defend ''Lady Chatterley's Lover'' from censorship. Scott represented the appellants, who were booksellers who had been offering the book for sale.

The case arose when the police had seized their copies of the book and deposited them with a judge of the Court of Sessions of the Peace, who issued a notice to the booksellers to show cause why the books should not be confiscated as obscene, contrary to s 150A of the [[Criminal Code (Canada)|Criminal Code]].<ref>''Criminal Code'', SC 1953–54, c 51, s. 150A, as enacted by SC 1959, c 41, s 12.</ref> The trial judge eventually ruled that the book was obscene and ordered that the copies be confiscated.  That decision was upheld by the Quebec Court of Queen's Bench, Appeal Side (now the [[Quebec Court of Appeal]]).<ref>''Brodie v The Queen'' (1961), 36 CR 200 (Que QB (App Side)).</ref>

Scott then appealed the case to the Supreme Court of Canada, which allowed the appeal on a 5–4 split and held that the book was not an obscene publication.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://scc-csc.lexum.com/scc-csc/scc-csc/en/item/6798/index.do?r=AAAAAQAKY2hhdHRlcmxleQE|title=Brody, Dansky, Rubin v. The Queen, [1962] S.C.R. 681|website=scc-csc.lexum.com|language=en|date=1962|access-date=24 May 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160104203113/http://scc-csc.lexum.com/scc-csc/scc-csc/en/item/6798/index.do?r=AAAAAQAKY2hhdHRlcmxleQE|archive-date=4 January 2016|url-status=live}}</ref>

On 15 November 1960, an Ontario panel of experts, appointed by Attorney General Kelso Roberts, found that novel was not obscene according to the Canadian [[Criminal Code (Canada)|Criminal Code]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www1.sympatico.ca/cgi-bin/on_this_day?mth=Nov&day=15 |archive-url=https://archive.today/20121210072433/http://www1.sympatico.ca/cgi-bin/on_this_day?mth=Nov&day=15 |url-status=dead |archive-date=10 December 2012 |title=News |publisher=Sympatico.ca |access-date=14 February 2011}}</ref>