26 Nov 2024
SECRETARY FOR JUSTICE v. LI YIK HO
- Citation
- [2024] HKCFA 30
- Court
- Court of Final Appeal
- Case number
- FACV4/2024
A same-sex couple validly married abroad is relevantly comparable to a heterosexual married couple for purposes of the IEO and IPO; the Secretary for Justice failed to establish that maintaining definitional 'coherence' across statutes is a legitimate aim or that any such aim is rationally connected to the exclusion; the differential treatment based on sexual orientation is unjustified and unconstitutional; appropriate remedy is a declaration and remedial interpretation reading IEO s3(d) and IPO s2(1)(d) and related references to 'husband' and 'wife' to include spouses of foreign same-sex mar…