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The Court of Ap­peal has over­turned a judge's de­ci­sion to up­hold a nov­el con­sti­tu­tion­al chal­lenge over this coun­try's ho­mo­pho­bic bug­gery and se­ri­ous in­de­cen­cy laws.

It was a split de­ci­sion with Ap­pel­late Judges Nolan Bereaux and Char­maine Pem­ber­ton sid­ing with the State's ap­peal in the land­mark case brought by LGBTQI+ ac­tivist Ja­son Jones.

Jus­tice of Ap­peal Vasheist Kokaram de­liv­ered a dis­sent­ing judg­ment sup­port­ing the ini­tial rul­ing in the case by High Court Judge Devin­dra Ram­per­sad in 2018.