Gay Star News, 9 Jul 2013A Singapore gay couple who are campaigning to end Singapore’s ban on gay sex have announced a new star legal team for the next step in their legal challenge.
Senior Counsel Deborah Barker has been appointed to represent Gary Lim and Kenneth Chee in their appeal of a Singapore High Court judgement in which Justice Quentin Loh dismissed their constitutional challenge to a colonial era law that criminalizes physical relationships between two men.
Lim and Chee have been in a relationship for 15 years and are pushing for the Section 377A law to be struck down, though the Singapore Government has said the law will no longer be enforced. Full story
