Privy Council rules T&T’s buggery laws unconstitutional

The Unit­ed King­dom-based Privy Coun­cil has de­clared this coun­try’s ho­mo­pho­bic bug­gery and se­ri­ous in­de­cen­cy law un­con­sti­tu­tion­al.

De­liv­er­ing a judg­ment at the Unit­ed King­dom Supreme Court Build­ing in Lon­don, Eng­land, yes­ter­day af­ter­noon, five Law Lords up­held Trinidad-born British LGBTQIA+ ac­tivist Ja­son Jones’ fi­nal le­gal chal­lenge over the le­gal­i­ty of the law.

The Board found that the lo­cal Court of Ap­peal was wrong to have over­turned for­mer High Court Judge and cur­rent Ap­pel­late Judge Devin­dra Ram­per­sad, who up­held Jones’ nov­el case in 2018.