HONGKONG MACAO HYDROFOIL COMPANY LTD v NG CHUN WAI and YEUNG YUK YING, co-administrators of the estate of WU YUK NGAN, deceased and all other persons claiming to have sustained loss or damage arising out of a collision between the Plaintiffs' ships or vessels "FLYING FLAMINGO" and "FLYING GOLDFINCH" on 11th day of July 1982

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1. The controversy which divides the,parties to this appeal is the question whether subsection (1) of s. 35 of the Merchant Shipping Act 1979, c. 39, of the United Kingdom ("the 1979 Act") applies to Hong Kong. The answer is likely to affect the amount for which the Hong Kong Macao Hydrofoil Co. Ltd. ("the Company") will be liable in damages for loss of life, injury and damage in pending and proposed actions arising out of a collision between two of their hydrofoils on 11 July 1982.