Port of SpainJason Jones won again, 8 years after his first ruling.
London’s Privy Council struck down Trinidad and Tobago’s ban on consensual anal sex between adults.
The case tested the savings clause that keeps pre-independence laws in force after independence.
Other Caribbean territories also use it as final court, and Jones counts 37 Commonwealth states with similar laws.
How each outlet framed it
- Global Voices leans favorable
- frames the Privy Council ruling as overturning the 2025 Court of Appeal decision that had kept the buggery law, traced through eight years of appeals
Sources: Global Voices