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Compass News – 1 July 2025
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Cayman Compass
Privy Council rejects claim governor exceeded powers on civil partnership act
Cayman’s final court of appeal has thrown out a claim that a former governor was wrong to push through a law allowing civil partnerships for same-sex couples.
London’s Privy Council on Monday ruled against Caymanian lawyer Kattina Anglin, who was last year successful in her bid to ask the court to look at the decision by Martyn Roper, the governor in 2020 when the Civil Partnership Act was signed into law, despite the then Legislative Assembly’s rejection of the legislation.
The board of Privy Council judges said Roper had acted within his constitutional right to legislate in line with international obligations, which came under the governor’s responsibility for external affairs.
