| 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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