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A group of Caribbean litigators and a partner at the Toronto-based law firm WeireFoulds have successfully challenged anti-LGTBQ laws in Antigua and Barbuda, where they have now been declared unconstitutional.<\/p>

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Early this month, Justice Marissa Robertson of the High Court of Justice issued a\u00a0decision<\/a>\u00a0that makes Antigua and Barbuda the first of nine Eastern Caribbean nations to declare unconstitutional laws that criminalize consensual, private, same-sex intimacy between adults.<\/p>\n

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The Antigua ruling is also the first in a co-ordinated five-country legal challenge to similar, colonial-era anti-sodomy laws in Antigua and Barbuda, Barbados, Saint Lucia, St. Kitts and Nevis, and Grenada\u2014all members of the Commonwealth.<\/p>

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\u201cIt\u2019s a fundamental judgment of monumental proportion, and it\u2019s an excellent authority and precedent that the other jurisdictions will no doubt look at,\u201d said Andew O\u2019kola, who steered the Antigua case and is one of a group of lawyers brought together by\u00a0the Eastern Caribbean Alliance for Diversity and Equality (ECADE), which launched the challenge in 2020.<\/p>

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Saint Lucia-based human rights lawyer Veronica Cenac is the \u201ctechnical lead\u201d on the five-country strategy. She tapped the Caribono network, a group of lawyers who do pro bono work in the region, to build a legal team. That\u2019s how Nadia Chiesa, chair of the commercial litigation practice and a partner in the Caribbean practice group at Canada\u2019s Weirfoulds, got involved.<\/p>\n

Chiesa is based in Toronto and most of her practice in the Caribbean is business-related. But she is a member of Caribono and has been involved in pro bono constitutional human rights litigation in the region since 2012.<\/p>

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\u201cVeronica had known me for quite a while\u2014my name was known in this network, and they approached me to see if I and WeirFoulds would support the litigation\u201d in St. Kitts and Nevis and Antigua and Barbuda, where the firm actively practices, she said.<\/p>\n

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Now, Chiesa and Trinidadian human rights lawyer Douglas Mendes lead the pro bono group, which includes members of the University of the West Indies\u2019 Faculty of Law Rights Advocacy Project. In addition, Westin James, now a judge in Barbados but who was an attorney in private practice and a lecturer in constitutional law, also played a key role in the case until he was elevated to the bench.<\/p>

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Chiesa said her role in the Antigua case involved working with the counsel and witnesses to gather evidence, draft pleadings, and research, and as the case went on, \u201cto provide litigation support and management for the team.\u201d WeirFoulds library group and articling students played a huge role, she said.<\/p>

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In the St. Kitts litigation, however, she is lead counsel along with Anthony Ross, who used to live in Canada and now practices in both Canada and the Caribbean. Their case was argued entirely virtually in May and the decision is currently under reserve, as is the Barbados one.<\/p>\n

Both Cenac and Okola praised Chiesa\u2019s \u201camazing\u201d contributions.<\/p>\n

\u201c[She] rolled up her sleeves and has come into the trenches to stand shoulder to shoulder with us,\u201d said Okola. \u201cShe\u2019s in a different class as it were, in terms of what she has brought to the table.\u201d<\/p>\n

O\u2019kola said the support of the Canadian law firm was incredibly important, as most of the counsel on the cases are from smaller local firms and were working pro bono.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe various territories may not have the kind of legal aid system that allows for one to litigate these matters, and therefore it\u2019s massively important to get resources elsewhere and [from] larger firms,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

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A group of Caribbean litigators and a partner at the Toronto-based law firm WeireFoulds have successfully challenged anti-LGTBQ laws in Antigua and Barbuda, where they have now been declared unconstitutional. 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