Trinidad and Tobago's law criminalising consensual sexual ​relations between male same-sex couples was ‌overturned by a London court on Tuesday, after a legal challenge by a gay man ​who said the law breached his human ​rights.

Jason Jones, who was born in ⁠Trinidad and Tobago, challenged the Caribbean nation's ​Sexual Offences Act as breaching his fundamental ​rights under the country's constitution.

He initially won his case at Trinidad and Tobago's High Court, but that ​ruling was overturned, prompting Jones to ​go to London's Privy Council, the final court of ‌appeal ⁠for Trinidad and Tobago and some other Commonwealth countries.

The Privy Council ruled that Trinidad and Tobago's law was unconstitutional, with Judge Philip ​Sales saying ​as he ⁠announced the court's ruling that "the current understanding of the fundamental ​individual right to respect for private ​and ⁠family life is that it protects such a core part of human identity as ⁠one's ​sexual orientation".
"Laws which seek ​to criminalise such activities cannot be justified," Sales added. (Reuters)