A man from Trinidad and Tobago has won a legal appeal lasting almost a decade in the last court of appeal available to him — the judicial committee of the Privy Council in former colonial power Britain. Jason Jones, a gay man born in Trinidad and Tobago, had challenged the Caribbean nation's Sexual Offences Act outlawing consensusal sex between adult males, saying that it breached his fundamental rights under the country's constitution. He initially won his case at Trinidad and Tobago 's High Court, but the government and religious organizations managed to partially overturn the ruling once more, prompting Jones to the take the case to the island nation's highest appellate authority — the Privy Council in the UK .
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