A final court of appeals in England has struck down a centuries-old ban on gay sex in Trinidad and Tobago, according to an ABC News report. The wire account describes the ruling as one that activists are celebrating, and it refers to the court as a "final court of appeals" in England.
The ABC News headline states that the top UK appeals court ruled gay sex is not a crime in the Caribbean nation. Together, the headline and summary describe a ruling that removes a prohibition the report calls centuries old, but the report does not explain how that prohibition was applied or who was affected by it.
The ABC News summary does not name the parties to the case, the judges, or the legal reasoning behind the decision. It does not say when the ruling was issued or whether it applies beyond the ban it struck down. It also does not describe any response from the government of Trinidad and Tobago, and this account does not supply those details.
The Gazette has seen only the headline and summary of the ABC News report, and no other account of the decision has been reviewed for this story. Where the summary is silent, readers should consult the full ABC News text linked above for any further detail the wire report contains.
The report's central facts are therefore limited to three points: an appeals court in England issued the ruling, the ruling struck down a ban on gay sex in Trinidad and Tobago, and activists are celebrating the decision, as ABC News reported. Those three points are the whole of what the available sources state.