A legal challenge by four plaintiffs against the Coroner's Court verdict on the 2012 Lamma IV sinking, which killed 39 people, has ended in Hong Kong's High Court. The plaintiffs withdrew their application after the Legal Aid Department rejected their funding request.
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Four individuals have applied to Hong Kong's High Court to quash the coroner's findings that a missing watertight door on the Lamma IV ferry was a deliberate design choice rather than an oversight. The application, filed without lawyers on Wednesday, also seeks a fresh inquest on this issue. Thirty-nine people died when the Lamma IV was struck by the catamaran Sea Smooth near Lamma Island on October 1, 2012, during a trip to watch National Day fireworks.
