Orozco v Attorney General
| Orozco v Attorney General | |
|---|---|
| Court | Supreme Court of Belize | 
| Full case name | Caleb Orozco v Attorney General of Belize | 
| Started | 24 September 2010 | 
| Decided | 10 August 2016 | 
| Citation | 90 WIR 161 | 
| Case history | |
| Prior action | none | 
| Appealed to | Court of Appeals of Belize | 
| Subsequent action | BZCA 32 of 2016 (30 Dec 2019) | 
| Court membership | |
| Judge sitting | CJ Kenneth Benjamin J Michelle Arana | 
| Keywords | |
Orozco v Attorney General (2016) 90 WIR 161, also known as Orozco v AG, the Orozco case, or the UNIBAM case, was a landmark case heard by the Supreme Court of Belize, which held that a long-standing buggery statute breached constitutional rights to dignity, equality before the law, freedom of expression, privacy, and non-discrimination on grounds of sex, and which declared the statute null and void to the applicable extent. The decision decriminalised consensual same-sex intercourse for the first time in 127 years, and established that the constitutional right to non-discrimination on grounds of sex extended to sexual orientation.