... istrate's court for sentencing, becoming the first legislator to be handed a jail term for a criminal offense for what he said was a form of protest inside the chamber, the Hong Kong Economic Journal ...More
EJ Insight2016-10-26
... oaths. A court refused to grant an interim injunction, but set a Nov. 3 hearing date for a judicial review. As the pro-establishment camp warned of fresh filibustering to stop the opposition duo from ...More
EJ Insight2016-10-26
... ity. At a court hearing on Tuesday, the lawyers accused Tsang of harboring hatred against police officers as a whole, citing his conviction by the Kowloon City Magistrates’ Court, which sentenced him ...More
EJ Insight2016-10-26
Legco President Andrew Leung has deferred the oath-taking of Sixtus Baggio Leung and Yau Wai-ching until after the High Court has heard a judicial review filed by the Hong Kong government. It looks li ...More
EJ Insight2016-10-26
... the High Court gives a ruling on his decision to allow the two legislators-elect a second chance to take their oaths of office, RTHK reports. Andrew Leung said it is his constitutional duty to ensure ...More
EJ Insight2016-10-25
... The High Court has set a Nov. 3 hearing of a judicial review challenge by the government against Andrew Leung. -- Contact us at [email protected] SC/AC/RA ...More
EJ Insight2016-10-25
A senior executive at Deutsche Bank was sentenced to 21 months in prison by a district court judge after he was found guilty of one count of dangerous driving causing death. The judge also ordered tha ...More
EJ Insight2016-10-25
... the High Court eventually rules in favor of Chief Executive Leung Chun-ying in his judicial review application to bar them from retaking their oaths. However, it is important to note that, again, acc ...More
EJ Insight2016-10-25
... puty High Court Judge Michael Stuart-Moore as warning jurors on Monday. Jutting’s alleged cocaine use will also feature, with the prosecution alleging that 26 bags of the drug were found in his apartm ...More
EJ Insight2016-10-25
... the High Court in a desperate attempt to prevent these legislators from taking their seats. When the government failed to obtain an interim injunction to prevent a second attempt at swearing-in, the ...More
EJ Insight2016-10-21
The Department of Justice plans to appeal a sentence handed down by a court to a man convicted of indecent assault, saying community service is too light a sentence for the gravity of the offense. The ...More
EJ Insight2016-10-21
... st to the court is understandable. Fan said Yau and Baggio Leung should take full responsibility for the current chaos in Legco, adding that the legislature and the court have been trying to find a so ...More
EJ Insight2016-10-21
... the High Court against a decision by Legco President Andrew Leung to allow the duo to retake the oath on Wednesday. But there is no certainty the saga will end there, especially if either side appeal ...More
EJ Insight2016-10-20
... ecedented court case from the Chief Executive and his Secretary for Justice seeking a judicial review of the oath re-taking of the two localists in an obvious move to please Beijing. An apology from t ...More
EJ Insight2016-10-20
... district court on Wednesday, the prosecution said that on the night of Oct. 15, 2014, Tsang was punched and kicked for about four minutes by the accused, whose faces were clearly captured in video ta ...More
EJ Insight2016-10-20
... veillance Court asking it to release the Yahoo order and over 20 other significant rulings dating back more than a decade. Reuters reported on Oct. 4 that Yahoo had secretly installed custom software ...More
EJ Insight2016-10-20
... the High Court seeking an interim injunction against a decision by Legco President Andrew Leung to allow Yau and Sixtus Baggio Leung to retake their oaths. After an emergency hearing late that night, ...More
EJ Insight2016-10-19
... rushed to court to seek an emergency judicial review against both the young offenders and the Legco president to prevent the oath being retaken. The relevant legal nature of judicial review is that it ...More
EJ Insight2016-10-19
... aning the court has processed the case and ruled that the defendant is not guilty. That means the defendant cannot be prosecuted again on the same charge. The DOJ’s exact wording was to “dismiss the c ...More
EJ Insight2016-10-19
Leung Chun-ying went all the way to the High Court to try to stop legislators-elect Sixtus Baggio Leung and Yau Wai-ching from being allowed to retake their oath. The chief executive's lawyers argued ...More
EJ Insight2016-10-19
