UK court upholds Cayman Islands law legalising same-sex partnerships | Cayman Islands
A court in London has supported a Kayman Islands The law codifying civil partnerships of the same sex, in a step that activists say it can turn the tide into other external external regions fighting for LGBTQ+rights.
On Monday, the Special Council of the Special Council rejected the final court of the British territory abroad, an appeal that argued that the governor of the Caribbean island had no right to enact the bill, after lawmakers rejected similar legislation.
Leonardo Raddovich, Acting President of LGBTQ+ Human Rights Organization, Caribbean sea colorsThe result of the long -term legal battle was described “victory for all.”
The change in the law came in 2020 in the wake of the case of a court of Tariya, which was submitted by a gay couple – the lawyer of Kimani Shantil Day and her partner Vicky Bodin Bush, a nurse – after the permission to marry was refused.
He said today that the decision was a “great comfort.”
She said: “It is a comfortable thing that we now and other husbands in Kaymanz are certain that the legal framework that we all relied on recognizing our relations will not be withdrawn from our lower and that the constitution is working in the intended way.”
When the couple made their original case, the Kayman Islands courts eventually ruled that the right to marry only extended to the interviewed husbands, but husbands of the same sex have the right to legal protection “that is a job equivalent to marriage.”
A draft law was brought to Parliament to put this protection in the law, but the lawmakers rejected it in July 2020 with nine to eight votes.
Two months later, the ruler, Martin Robert, created the Civil Partnership Law, which allowed civilian partnerships of the same sex, saying that the action should be taken to support human rights.
Kattina Anglin, a lawyer based in the Kayman Islands, argued that Robe had no power to introduce law under the Cayman Islands Constitution. However, her case was rejected by the island courts, and her final appeal was rejected by the Queen Special Council.
Raznovich said the decision could have effects on continuous litigation in other external British regions, such as the Turks and Kikos, and the British Virgin Islands.
But it was less confident in influencing issues involving independent caramel countries such as Trinidad and Tobago, which still have the laws of the colonial era that criminalizes the sex of anal consenoids and where marriages of the same sex and civil partnership are banned.
In 2018, a Supreme Court ruling Trinidad and Tobago canceled the so -called “Buggerry”, but in April The country’s Supreme Court supported a government appeal Against judgment and employment, activists forced their case to the Queen Special Council.
The controversial “savings conditions”It was usually created when the two countries gained independence, and were designed to preserve colonial laws unless it was changed by Parliament, which complicates the situation in Trinidad, Tobago and other Caribbean countries.
Anglin The Guardian told that she would make a response to the decision on Thursday when she had the full time to review the entire referee and meet her legal team.
Reuters contributed to the reports
