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." The judgement is the result of an 11-year legal battle brought by dual-citizen Jason Jones, 62, who said he hoped it would "accelerate the fight for full equality." Jones had successfully challenged the laws in 2018 in Trinidad's High Court, however the ruling was overturned on appeal by the Trinidadian government.
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