That is not correct, two girls can work in separate rooms in the same building even a house, they do have to have separate rental agreements though for example a HMO. A hotel would be covered by this, as each one would be renting an individual room. They have to work separately though they aren't allowed to work together. In the case of a house separate rental agreements may not preclude it from being a brothel.
I dunno that sounds like a clever argument you have in court, I suspect that won't stop the police shutting the premises down on the day and kicking punters out.
I think this probably would be one of those cases on the finer points of the law that solicitors and barristers would just love to bill right the way through to the Supreme Court. It would take an awful lot of payment in kind SP bookings to cover that invoice!
In an effort to defend my point above against Daviemacs HMO example. It's possible separate contracts could demonstrate that they are not working together, however that fact on its own is not proof:
"However, where rooms or flats in one building are let separately to different individuals offering sexual services; it may be treated as a brothel only if the individuals are effectively working together. Donovan v Gavin [1965] 2 QB 648 established that the letting of individual rooms in a house under separate tenancies and to different prostitutes does not necessarily preclude the house, or parts of it, from being a brothel."
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External Link/Members OnlyI believe that in practice it would be assumed the girls in the HMO are working together. If the police decided to prosecute, the WG's would have to provide some pretty strong evidence that they weren't. The fact of their proximity would be enough to make most juries accept it. A barrister would only have to point to something very simple to reinforce the idea they were working together.
The circumstances in a Hotel are different, but it wouldn't take much to show that they are not
that different, especially if it could be proved the two WG's knew each other.
And finally, it is an offence for a landlord to let the whole or part of his property be used as a brothel. So the Hotels have to be a bit wary, they can argue that most of their guests value their privacy so they can't pay too much attention to what is going on in their hotel rooms. But, if there are regular complaints made....