‘Law is a game for wealthy people’: Lamma ferry disaster families drop challenge against coroner’s verdict

Family members of victims of Hong Kong’s 2012 Lamma ferry disaster, in which 39 people died, have withdrawn a legal challenge against a coroner’s verdict after reportedly being denied legal aid.

High Court Judge Queeny Au-Yeung on Wednesday dismissed an application for a judicial review of January’s coroner’s verdict, after the four bereaved family members […] ...