OUTBermuda Among Appeal Interveners
OUTBermuda was among the interveners in a successful appeal challenging laws criminalising consensual same-sex intimacy in Trinidad and Tobago.
The Judicial Committee of the Privy Council in the UK unanimously allowed Jason Jones’s appeal on November 10, ruling that sections 13 and 16 of the country’s Sexual Offences Act must be interpreted so they do not criminalise private, consensual sexual relations between adults of the same sex.
The BBC reported, “A UK court has overturned laws criminalising same-sex intimacy in Trinidad and Tobago. London’s Judicial Committee of the Privy Council [JCPC], the Caribbean island’s final court of appeal, ruled the laws were not in keeping with the ‘fundamental individual right to respect for private and family life.”
Reuters reported, “Trinidad and Tobago’s law criminalising consensual sexual relations between male same-sex couples was overturned by a London court on Tuesday, after a legal challenge by a gay man who said the law breached his human rights.”
The court ruling notes that the Bermuda-based organization was one of the interveners in the historic court case stating, “The interveners, who explain that they are ‘all leading LGBTQ+ advocacy groups’, are Colours Caribbean, The Silver Lining Foundation, OUTBermuda, United Belize Advocacy Movement, and ILGA-North America and The Caribbean.”
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