Cynthia Payne Leland. Payne made appearances as an after-dinner speaker and launched a range of "adult" services and products in 2006. Payne died on 15 November 2015, aged 82. Her family celebrated her life a month later with a colourful humanist funeral, in accordance with her wishes. Cynthia Payne Cynthia Payne (24 December 193215 November 2015) was an English brothel keeper and party hostess who made headlines in the 1970s and 1980s, when she was acquitted of running a brothel at 32 Ambleside Avenue, in Streatham, a southwestern suburb of London. Payne first came to national attention in 1978 when police raided
Shia Personal Status Law to remove the law's stipulation for temporary marriages. Another amendment from the first draft was that a woman could leave the house without a male relative escort if she were to go to work, school or for medical treatment. Canadian International Development Agency CIDA provided funds to the Rights and Democracy organisation which advises Afghanistan on developing new family laws. Some aspects of the law that the staff thought would be repealed were the marriage of girls as young as nine years old to men and that wives did not need the man's permission to work. Shia Personal Status Law