(CARIBBEAN NEWS SERVICE) — Attorney General Faris Al-Rawi Thursday said that the state intends filing an appeal against a High Court judge ruling that consensual sex between people in same-sex unions should not be criminalised as the court partly struck down the sodomy laws in Trinidad and Tobago.

Al-Rawi said that the case is a matter of importance that must be settled before the London-based Privy Council, the country’s highest and final court.

“Our attorneys have already indicated to the court that the Attorney General Office will be appealing the judgement simply because it is a matter of importance that must be settled by the highest Court of Appeal.

In our jurisdiction, the Privy Council is the highest Court of Appeal and the Privy Council is best suited to settle this matter. That is essential so because this particular pronouncement is in relation to one law only. There are in fact approximately 26 other laws which traverse the same issue,” Al-Rawi said on a radio programme here.