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Families seek review of coroner’s findings in Lamma ferry disaster inquest

Families of victims who died in Hong Kong’s Lamma ferry disaster 13 years ago have filed an application for a judicial review against a coroner’s…

By Samantha Johnson / April 22, 2026

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.

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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.

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Hong Kong court rules 39 people ‘unlawfully killed’ in 2012 Lamma Island ferry crash

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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.

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