Orozco v Attorney General | |
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Court | Supreme Court of Belize |
Full case name | Caleb Orozco v Attorney General of Belize |
Started | 24 September 2010 |
Decided | 10 August 2016 |
Citation | 90 WIR 161 |
Case history | |
Prior action | none |
Appealed to | Court of Appeals of Belize |
Subsequent action | BZCA 32 of 2016 (30 Dec 2019) |
Court membership | |
Judge sitting | CJ Kenneth Benjamin J Michelle Arana |
Keywords | |
Orozco v Attorney General (2016) 90 WIR 161, also known as Orozco v AG, the Orozco case, or the UNIBAM case, was a landmark case heard by the Supreme Court of Belize, which held that a long-standing buggery statute breached constitutional rights to dignity, equality before the law, freedom of expression, privacy, and non-discrimination on grounds of sex, and which declared the statute null and void to the applicable extent. The decision decriminalised consensual same-sex intercourse for the first time in 127 years, and established that the constitutional right to non-discrimination on grounds of sex extended to sexual orientation.[note 1]
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