China's top judge has apologized for a spate of wrongful convictions and demanded that courts at all levels draw a "profound lesson". Zhou Qiang, chief justice of China’s Supreme People’s Court, said ...More
EJ Insight2015-03-13
Three students who were arrested Sunday during a protest against parallel-goods traders appeared in a Tuen Mun court Tuesday after being charged with assaulting police officers and resisting arrest. M ...More
EJ Insight2015-03-11
... rfully in court that Cho had become abusive as she confronted the crew about service, shouting at them as they kneeled on the floor. Kobre & Kim said in the statement the flight attendant Kim had ...More
EJ Insight2015-03-11
The Philippines' highest court has relaxed its own rules on the annulment of marriage on the ground of psychological incapacity. The Supreme Court said the rules it had put in place nearly two decades ...More
EJ Insight2015-03-10
The Court of Final Appeal became the latest target in a graffiti attack in Hong Kong, with some unknown persons scribbling words that seek to cast the judiciary in an unfavorable light. Security guard ...More
EJ Insight2015-03-10
... ers prior court decisions and follows the language of the law closely. Chinese civil law doesn’t. Civil law has some practical advantages -- such as less need for lawyers -- but Chinese laws tend to ...More
EJ Insight2015-03-09
A Moscow court on Sunday charged two Chechens with alleged involvement in the murder of opposition politician Boris Nemtsov and confirmed the arrest of three other suspects. Zaur Dadayev, deputy comma ...More
EJ Insight2015-03-09
... from the court and was fined only HK$100. "Don't be daunted and don't change your work attitude because of the conviction," Magistrate Jason Wan Siu-ming told Chu. "I hope I can be your patron next t ...More
EJ Insight2015-03-06
... Ma of the Court of Final Appeal told the London School of Economics (LSE). Apple Daily cited Hong Kong journalist and former radio host Wong Kit-wai who attendend the Feb. 24 function organized by the ...More
EJ Insight2015-03-05
A court in New Delhi has blocked the broadcast of a documentary about a brutal gang rape and murder of a young woman three years ago that sparked widespread national outrage. The documentary, which fe ...More
EJ Insight2015-03-05
Yvonne Leung, a standing committee member of the Hong Kong Federation of Students, has lodged an application in the High Court for a judicial review on the second round of consultation on constitution ...More
EJ Insight2015-03-04
... ntempt of court in India after the government alleged unpaid debts of about US$6 billion to bondholders. He surrendered to police in February last year. Roy and Sahara have denied the charges and have ...More
EJ Insight2015-03-04
... tside the Court of Final Appeal. Although the actors were seen apparently talking to each other, their voices were muted, people complained. Instead of the actors' voices, a speech that Geoffrey Ma, ...More
EJ Insight2015-03-02
... l estate. Court records show that the couple did not attend the hearing on the case in November, and the court ruled that they were required to repay the amount they owed, including a HK$160 litigatio ...More
EJ Insight2015-03-02
... vernment. Court papers related to 2011 and 2013 British legal hearings, reviewed by Reuters and publicly available on the internet, offer a glimpse of Emwazi's life in London before he left for Syria. ...More
EJ Insight2015-03-02
... a federal court in New York was the 10th conviction at trial or via a guilty plea of a defendant tied to the bombings, which killed 224 people and injured more than 4,000, Reuters reported Friday, cit ...More
EJ Insight2015-02-27
... told the court. Under Germany's strict court reporting rules, the convict cannot be named. In court, he shielded his face behind a paper folder. "There was tension there, and an expectation of what w ...More
EJ Insight2015-02-27
... 1 British court ruling reported that Emwazi was an associate of Bilal al Berjawi, a leader of al Shabaab, a person in possession of the court ruling said. Qureshi said British spies had tried to recru ...More
EJ Insight2015-02-27
South Korea's Constitutional Court has ruled that adultery is no longer a crime. In a 7-2 decision, the nine-member bench declared on Thursday that Article 241 of the criminal code is unconstitutional ...More
EJ Insight2015-02-26
... the High Court on July 8, while nine others are free on bail while being investigated. Lau told Ming Pao that he still hopes the mastermind and other culprits behind the crime will be arrested. A pol ...More
EJ Insight2015-02-26
