The Permanent Court of Arbitration (PCA) in The Hague may not be as prestigious as the International Court of Justice (ICJ) but its decisions should not be underestimated. This is because the tribunal ...More
EJ Insight2016-07-21
... appear in court on Friday. Fung faces charges of criminal intimidation, criminal damage and attempted forcible entry, stemming from his role in the Jan. 26 siege which held up vice chancellor Peter M ...More
EJ Insight2016-07-21
... a federal court referred to "Malaysian Official 1" in the complaint, a reference believed to be of Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak, who had overseen the state fund. The Justice Department said U ...More
EJ Insight2016-07-21
... bitration court in The Hague that invalidated its vast territorial claims in the South China Sea. It refused to take part in the proceedings brought by the Philippines. China has repeatedly blamed the ...More
EJ Insight2016-07-21
... a federal court in New York. The move came in the wake of an investigation by the US Justice Department into foreign-exchange rigging at global banks. HSBC said it cooperating in the US probe. Prosecu ...More
EJ Insight2016-07-21
... Permanent Court of Arbitration in The Hague ruled that China’s claims of sovereignty over most of the South China Sea have no legal basis and that Beijing had violated the Philippines’ sovereign right ...More
EJ Insight2016-07-20
The Philippines is refusing to negotiate with China over their South China Sea dispute because of Beijing's insistence that a court ruling that nullified most of its claims be left off the table. Phil ...More
EJ Insight2016-07-20
Two years ago, in my article on the South China Sea arbitration case, I stressed that it was the Permanent Court of Arbitration (PCA), rather than the much more well-known International Court of Justi ...More
EJ Insight2016-07-20
... rnational Court of Justice in The Hague against his own country, the United States. The ICJ held that the US violated international law by supporting the Contras in their rebellion against the Nicarag ...More
EJ Insight2016-07-19
... district court on Monday, Apple Daily reports. Chan was born in mainland China and migrated to Hong Kong in 1997. He and the lady met through instant messaging app WeChat at the start of the year, an ...More
EJ Insight2016-07-19
... Permanent Court of Arbitration in the Hague censured Beijing’s efforts to build man-made islands in the disputed seas and ruled that there was no historical basis for its claim to 85 percent of the wa ...More
EJ Insight2016-07-19
... s hall. A court remanded 26 generals and admirals in custody on Monday, Turkish media said. Nearly 20,000 members of the police, civil service, judiciary and army have been detained or suspended since ...More
EJ Insight2016-07-19
... Permanent Court of Arbitration in The Hague, Netherlands, not a court of law, provided clerical support as an organizer of the tribunal. Beijing decided against naming a judge to the panel and did not ...More
EJ Insight2016-07-18
... rnational court into delivering an adverse ruling against Beijing, "patriotic" Chinese shunned restaurant chains such as KFC, McDonald’s and Pizza Hut, the Hong Kong Economic Journal reported. Showing ...More
EJ Insight2016-07-18
... in making court rulings. More generally we have seen a swathe of acts of retaliation against pro-democracy figures ranging from the absurd attempt at censorship by a cosmetics company to the more subs ...More
EJ Insight2016-07-18
... bitration court in The Hague rejected China's claims to the disputed waters, news website HK01 reports. It came on a through train as it pulled into the Xianlu station in Dalian when a man in red kick ...More
EJ Insight2016-07-15
A Hong Kong court is set to announce a sentence on a man found guilty of violating the Dangerous Drugs Ordinance. The District Court will hand a sentence on the man after prosecutors modified the char ...More
EJ Insight2016-07-15
You can't beat the call of nature but if you're caught short, there are better places to embarrass yourself than in a courtroom. Because there, you could be fined, if not jailed. That's how a man from ...More
EJ Insight2016-07-15
... outlets. Court documents revealed that the chain operator lost HK$34 million in 2015, HK$43 million last year, and more than HK$14 million in the first five months of this year. It’s now left with o ...More
EJ Insight2016-07-15
Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte is sticking to his promise not to "flaunt or taunt" an international court ruling on the South China Sea, days after his country dealt a blow to China. Duterte hel ...More
EJ Insight2016-07-15
