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Secretary for Justice v Yau Yuk Lung

(2007) 10 HKCFAR 335
JurisdictionHong Kong
CourtCourt of Final Appeal (HKSAR)
Year2007
StatusBinding authority

Key Principle

criminalisation of homosexual buggery between consenting adults was unconstitutional; equality guarantee under BOR

Area of Law

constitutional

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