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Posted on 07/08/2026 1:50:38 PM PDT by Salman
Some of the UK’s top judges are hearing arguments over whether a Trinidad and Tobago court had the legal right to overturn a 2018 ruling to remove colonial-era homophobic laws that criminalise anal sex between consenting men.
The country’s “buggery law”, often referred to as its “sodomy” law, was created in 1925 and was written into Trinidad and Tobago’s 1986 Sexual Offences Act. In 2017 a Trinidadian LGBTQ+ rights activist, Jason Jones, challenged the law, and in 2018 a high court ruled that it infringed upon his constitutional right to privacy and equality.
Last year a court of appeal quashed that decision after an intervention by the country’s attorney general. Now Jones’s appeal is being heard by the London-based judicial committee of the privy council (JCPC), the highest court of appeal for the UK’s overseas territories, crown dependencies and several independent Commonwealth countries. It shares the same judges as the UK supreme court.
Activists across the Caribbean are closely watching the proceedings, in which an outcome is expected in three to six months’ time.
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But apparently not when it comes to certain matters of international importance.
Please notice the laws in question are described as "colonial-era" (to discredit them), but apparently they cannot keep these laws in force against the will of the former (?) colonial power.
The British ruling class claims universal jurisdiction in matters of buggery. And yes that is an official legal term in British law.
LOL...the Brits ruling on buggery! I wonder how that will go down.
They may blow a bugle in a buggy over buggery behind the bog.
Oh bugger off.
I’m tired of all this buggery.
Rum, buggery and the lash.
They are an independent republic in the Commonwealth. But, like several other smaller Commonwealth countries, they kept right of appeal to the then Law Lords to after independence and even after becoming a republic.
That function passed to the UK Supreme Court when they replaced the Law Lords
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