Attorney Leonardo Raznovich has said he is hoping the Privy Council will deliver its ruling in the Chantelle Day and Vickie Bodden Bush same-sex marriage case when the court resumes in October.
Raznovich, who is part of the legal team representing Day and Bodden Bush, told the Cayman Compass Tuesday that he believes the length of the panel’s deliberation is “out of the ordinary”.
It is nearing six months since legal arguments closed in the case and the Privy Council panel retired to deliberate on the issues highlighted by the couple seeking equal marriage rights in the Cayman Islands.
The Council is currently on summer recess and is expected to resume sittings the first week in October.
Also on the law lords’s decision list is a Bermudian case in which marriage rights are being challenged in that jurisdiction. That ruling is yet to be decided by the same panel of law lords that heard the Cayman case.
“They [the Bermudian couple] have been sitting there for the last almost three years waiting for the Privy Council to make a decision, so I sympathise perhaps a little bit more because of the length [of time] they have [been] waiting… but that doesn’t mean that Vickie and Chantelle [are] not in… limbo… This is a big breach of human rights… this waiting for a decision,” Raznovich said.
The law lords have to decide on two issues in the Day/Bodden Bush case. One is whether Cayman’s Bill of Rights, as set out in the Constitution, provides for a right for same-sex couples to be...
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