The Department of Justice has made a rare application to the High Court to overturn permission granted to a widower to challenge the Hong Kong government, after he was denied the right to independently make funeral arrangements for his late husband.
The court had granted Henry Li Yik-ho leave to apply for judicial review in March, soon after he launched the bid to challenge the Forensic Pathology Service’s decision not to let him identify the body of his spouse, Edgar Ng Hon-lam, at the Fu Shan Public Mortuary on December 9 last year.