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Secretary for Justice v Yau Yuk Lung

(2007) 10 HKCFAR 335
JurisdictionHong Kong
CourtHK Court of Final Appeal
Year2007
StatusBinding authority

Summary

Criminalisation of consensual buggery between adult males held unconstitutional as violating the equality guarantee under the Hong Kong Bill of Rights.

Key Principle

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

Area of Law

constitutional

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