Debevoise & Plimpton partner and former U.K. attorney general Lord Goldsmith QC has agreed to represent, on a pro bono basis, a gay couple seeking to overturn Singapore’s ban on male homosexual sex.
Section 377A of Singapore’s penal code criminalizes sexual conduct between men. Though the government has said it will not actively enforce the law, activists have argued that that provides inadequate protection to Singapore gays.
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