Four Applicants Seek to Quash Coroner's Findings on Lamma IV Ferry Watertight Door
High Court application challenges ruling that missing watertight door was deliberate design choice, not oversight, in 2012 disaster that killed 39 people
L'essentiel
- 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.
Résumé généré par IA
Four individuals lodged the application in the High Court on Wednesday. They acted without lawyers. They want the court to quash the coroner's findings that a missing watertight door on the ill-fated Lamma IV ferry was a deliberate design choice, not an oversight. They are also seeking a fresh inquest on that issue. Thirty-nine people died in the disaster on October 1, 2012, when the Lamma IV was hit by the catamaran Sea Smooth near Lamma Island, making it Hong Kong's deadliest maritime accident in decades. Lamma IV was carrying 124 HK Electric employees and their relatives to watch the National Day fireworks over Victoria Harbour. The application names the coroner as respondent. The city's director of marine, Cheoy Lee Shipyard, HK Electric and Hong Kong and Kowloon Ferry, operator of the Sea Smooth, are listed as interested parties.
