Victims' families from a 13-year-old Lamma ferry disaster are appealing the coroner's findings in the High Court. They argue the official conclusions were irrational and did not adequately consider contradictory evidence.

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 findings in an inquest, saying the conclusions showed irrationality and failed to weigh contradictory evidence. 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...