{"id":14519,"date":"2016-07-08T13:56:40","date_gmt":"2016-07-08T17:56:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.aidslaw.ca\/site\/?p=14519"},"modified":"2022-09-25T21:09:12","modified_gmt":"2022-09-26T01:09:12","slug":"jamaican-supreme-court-admits-religious-groups-as-interested-parties-in-challenge-to-anti-sodomy-law","status":"publish","type":"news22","link":"https:\/\/www.hivlegalnetwork.ca\/site\/jamaican-supreme-court-admits-religious-groups-as-interested-parties-in-challenge-to-anti-sodomy-law\/","title":{"rendered":"Jamaican Supreme Court Admits Religious Groups as Interested Parties in Challenge to Anti-Sodomy Law"},"content":{"rendered":"<strong>TORONTO, July 8, 2016<\/strong> <span lang=\"EN-US\">\u2014\u00a0<\/span>The Jamaican Supreme Court on July 6 handed down its ruling on applications by nine religious groups and the Public Defender to be interested parties in a challenge by Jamaican lawyer Maurice Tomlinson to the country\u2019s anti-sodomy law. All the groups except the Public Defender were allowed in the case with full rights of participation.<\/p>\n<p class=\"download-link-button\"><a class=\"download-link en\" title=\"Jamaican Supreme Court Admits Religious Groups as Interested Parties in Challenge to Anti-Sodomy Law\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hivlegalnetwork.ca\/site\/download\/14516\/?tmstv=1775568885\" rel=\"nofollow\">\r\n\tDownload<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TORONTO, July 8, 2016 \u2014\u00a0The Jamaican Supreme Court on July 6 handed down its ruling on applications by nine religious groups and the Public Defender to be interested parties in a challenge by Jamaican lawyer Maurice Tomlinson to the country\u2019s anti-sodomy law. All the groups except the Public Defender were allowed in the case with &#8230; <a title=\"Jamaican Supreme Court Admits Religious Groups as Interested Parties in Challenge to Anti-Sodomy Law\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hivlegalnetwork.ca\/site\/jamaican-supreme-court-admits-religious-groups-as-interested-parties-in-challenge-to-anti-sodomy-law\/\" aria-label=\"More on Jamaican Supreme Court Admits Religious Groups as Interested Parties in Challenge to Anti-Sodomy Law\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"menu_order":0,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"publication_topics":[153,160],"publication_language":[184],"class_list":["post-14519","news22","type-news22","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","publication_topics-lgbtq-rights","publication_topics-the-caribbean","publication_language-english"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hivlegalnetwork.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news22\/14519","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hivlegalnetwork.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news22"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hivlegalnetwork.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news22"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hivlegalnetwork.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.hivlegalnetwork.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news22\/14519\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16913,"href":"https:\/\/www.hivlegalnetwork.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news22\/14519\/revisions\/16913"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hivlegalnetwork.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14519"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"publication_topics","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hivlegalnetwork.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/publication_topics?post=14519"},{"taxonomy":"publication_language","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hivlegalnetwork.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/publication_language?post=14519"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}