A huge win for the Hong Kong LGBTQ+ community after gay widower won a massive case against the government.
On Friday (25 June) the high court ruled that married same-sex couples in Hong Kong are now allowed to own government subsided housing together.
The case referred to married couple Henry Li and Edgar Ng. After Ng passed away in 2020, Li was unable to inherit the government subsided flat Ng bought – due to Hong Kong’s restrictions regarding LGBTQ+ couples.
Justice Anderson Chow, the judge who presided over the case, stated that denying the couple joint occupancy and ownership rights was in violation of Hong Kong’s basic law, its Bill of Rights and the city’s constitution.
Before his death, Ng had already filed two judicial review proceedings against the Hong Kong government. The first one sought equal rights for LGBTQ+ couples in subsidies housing and the second one took aim at the inheritance and intestacy laws.
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