... the High Court demanding the abolition of this policy, which on the face of it gives indigenous villagers in the New Territories preferential treatment over other Hongkongers. It seems the Heung Yee ...More
EJ Insight2016-01-06
A sales manager who claimed to earn HK$700,000 a year (US$90,300) was convicted in a Kwun Tong magistrate's court for annoying a woman by using obscene language in a park, Headline Daily reported Wedn ...More
EJ Insight2016-01-06
... istrate's court heard Monday. The four, who are charged with obtaining access to a computer with a dishonest intent, include three former teachers at the school, surnamed Cheng, Tsang, and Wong. The o ...More
EJ Insight2016-01-05
... lenged in court and hard to enforce. Guns are a potent issue in US politics. The National Rifle Association, the top US gun rights group, is feared and respected in Washington for its ability to mobil ...More
EJ Insight2016-01-05
... n federal court in Manhattan on Monday, a lawyer for Ng Lap Seng, 68, said the Chinese citizen would withdraw a request for a speedy trial in the bribery case, Reuters reported. The lawyer, Benjamin B ...More
EJ Insight2016-01-05
... citing a court complaint. Nikolaishvili injured Pei’s arm while grabbing a phone from him after the architect threatened to call the police because she did “something bad”, a police officer said. Pei ...More
EJ Insight2016-01-04
... ndants in court have been denied access to lawyers. Riyadh denies torture and says its judiciary is independent. – Contact us at [email protected] FL/CG ...More
EJ Insight2016-01-04
... March, a court in Germany banned Uber since it did not fully insure drivers and passengers. In Taiwan, authorities said Uber cannot guarantee the “professional experience of drivers” and this could u ...More
EJ Insight2016-01-01
A Hong Kong court has fined a property agent after he was accused of passing on an acquaintance's personal data to a financial planner without taking prior consent. The agent, a man surnamed Leung, wa ...More
EJ Insight2015-12-31
... ared at a courthouse in Elkins Park, just outside Philadelphia, accompanied by two lawyers. He was ordered to turn over his passport and avoid any contact with his accuser after posting a US$1 million ...More
EJ Insight2015-12-31
A 54-year-old suspect in a series of robberies, who turned himself in to the police earlier this year after evading the law for 22 years, was sentenced to 15 months in jail. High Court Judge Audrey Ca ...More
EJ Insight2015-12-30
A civil servant has filed a writ in the High Court to challenge the government's refusal to recognize his same-sex marriage and grant him the same rights and benefits that are due to married persons. ...More
EJ Insight2015-12-29
The Philippines’ highest court temporarily stopped the country’s election commission from disqualifying Senator Grace Poe from running in the 2016 presidential race. Chief Justice Maria Lourdes Sereno ...More
EJ Insight2015-12-29
Cisco Systems Inc. has won a patent dispute case related to Wi-Fi technology, as a US appeals court cleared the networking equipment maker in a long-running battle against Commil USA. The US Court of ...More
EJ Insight2015-12-29
... n Wan Law Court. Tang Kin-wah, secretary of the Hong Kong Federation of Asian Domestic Workers Unions, said Kaur's case illustrates the problems faced by domestic helpers in the city. The support give ...More
EJ Insight2015-12-28
... n Supreme Court gave the following opinion in 1981 in relation to this duty: “In summary, we hold that a hospital owes a duty to its patients to exercise reasonable care in the selection of its medica ...More
EJ Insight2015-12-28
... y a Macau court last year for bribery and money laundering. The Chiu Chow-born and Canada-educated businessman had humble beginnings in life as he started out an electric fan trader before finding fun ...More
EJ Insight2015-12-24
... guilty in court? Are the police now playing the role of a judge by ascertaining their guilt? Hong Kong people want to retain their identity as Hongkongers, rather than as Chinese or citizens of the Pe ...More
EJ Insight2015-12-23
A Chinese court on Tuesday convicted a prominent rights lawyer of "inciting ethnic hatred" and trouble-making. Pu Zhiqiang (蒲志強) was handed down a three-year suspended sentence, which means he won't g ...More
EJ Insight2015-12-22
... istrates' court. Her 25-year-old son, a parallel trader surnamed Lau, was sentenced to two months in jail after pleading guilty to two counts of assault. The incident took place on Sept. 10 when the d ...More
EJ Insight2015-12-22
