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Then in 2011, the gender-neutral Crimes Act 2011 applied an equivalent and gender-neutral age of consent of sixteen and legalised anal intercourse for heterosexuals - reflecting the Supreme Court of Gibraltar's final decision and by repealing and updating 140-12 months-outdated legal rules of Gibraltar. In 1997, the European Court of Human Rights scenario of Sutherland v United Kingdom held that a better age of consent for homosexuals than for heterosexuals was a breach of Article 14 in conjunction with Article eight of the Convention. In 1995, the sodomy age of consent became 18 (less than the Sexual Offences (Jersey) Law 1995). In 2007, the age of consent was reduced to 16, grew to become gender-neutral for all sexual conduct (which include sodomy) no matter of sexual orientation or gender. Jersey for the two men and gals until 1990 while the age of consent for homosexual acts other than sodomy was the same as for heterosexual functions. In 1994, on the next reading of the Criminal Justice and Public Order Act 1994, the Conservative Member of Parliament Edwina Currie released an modification to reduce the age of consent for homosexual functions to 16, in line with that for heterosexual functions the amendment was defeated by 308 votes to 280. A compromise modification that decreased the age of consent to 18 was recognized by 427 votes to 162. Also throughout the readings ended up motions to equalise the age of consent to 17 for all, to sustain the age of consent for homosexual acts to 21, and a further attempt to reduced the age of consent to 16, all of which were being turned down.