A new trial has been ordered in a sex trafficking case involving a Nova Scotia man and crimes allegedly committed in Fort Saskatchewan and in Nova Scotia.

The Supreme Court of Canada last week overturned the man's acquittal, and ordered a new trial.

The Supreme Court ruled that the judge in the original trial erred in his assessment of the accused's history of violence. "The trial judge’s incorrect assessment of this critical evidence seriously undermined his credibility assessment of the complainant, which he used as the rationale for acquittal," the Supreme Court ruling states.

Neither the accused nor his alleged victim can be named in order to protect the victim and her two children.

Court documents show the accused and the victim lived together from 2004 until 2012, in Halifax, Fort Saskatchewan and Edmonton. While in Fort Saskatchewan, the spouse worked at a bar while the accused chose not to work.

"Unsatisfied with their financial earnings, the accused persuaded the complainant to dance for men, and eventually, to offer sexual services for money." Court documents state.  "The complainant did not want to offer sex for money but participated because of the accused’s violence and threats towards her."

Evidence presented at the original trial include 2008 medical reports from the Fort Saskatchewan hospital and two ads for sexual services placed on Craigslist with phone numbers belonging to the accused in 2009.