Orozco v Attorney General

Orozco v Attorney General
CourtSupreme Court of Belize
Full case name Caleb Orozco v Attorney General of Belize
Started24 September 2010 (2010-09-24)
Decided10 August 2016 (2016-08-10)
Citation90 WIR 161
Case history
Prior actionnone
Appealed toCourt of Appeals of Belize
Subsequent actionBZCA 32 of 2016 (30 Dec 2019)
Court membership
Judge sittingCJ 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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