Comment: Off Tag: equality, Hong Kong, Jimmy Sham, marriage A court in Hong Kong court has refused to recognise same-sex marriages conducted abroad. In a massive blow for the local LGBTQ+ community, the Judge said “The applicant’s attempt in the present case to achieve complete parity of legal recognition of foreign same-sex marriages and foreign opposite-sex marriages is too ambitious,” Anderson Chow wrote in his judgement. The case was brought by Jimmy Sham, a local district councillor.
