From the article: Hong Kong’s top court ruled Tuesday that the government should provide a framework for recognizing same-sex partnerships, in a landmark decision for the city’s LGBTQ+ community.

The ruling did not grant full marriage rights to same-sex couples but was a partial victory for prominent pro-democracy activist Jimmy Sham, who had fought a five-year legal battle over the recognition of same-sex marriages registered overseas.

Sham married his husband in New York in 2013, and argued that Hong Kong’s laws, which don’t recognize foreign same-sex marriage, violate the constitutional right to equality.

“The absence of legal recognition of their relationship is apt to disrupt and demean their private lives together in ways that constitute arbitrary interference,” Justice Patrick Keane wrote.

But the judges unanimously dismissed Sham’s final appeal on other grounds related to same-sex marriage and recognition of overseas same-sex unions.

TL;DR sounds like all the court did was admit the government should be supporting LGBT couples. Otherwise the actual case and whatnot was shot down.