... 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
... ly at the Court of Arbitration for Sport. The committee said Platini, who had been the frontrunner to succeed Blatter next year, “failed to act with complete credibility and integrity”. The committee ...More
EJ Insight2015-12-22
... ears by a court earlier this year. Cheung said the number of foreign maids in the city has risen by 50 percent over the past 10 years and reached a total of more than 340,000 at the end of last month. ...More
EJ Insight2015-12-21
A 70-year-old truck driver who figured in a deadly car accident in Yuen Long on Friday was set to be charged with dangerous driving causing death at a Tuen Mun Magistrates' Court on Monday. Four peopl ...More
EJ Insight2015-12-21
... o federal court in February in an attempt to unmask the perpetrator. Its court papers claim that an unidentified person using a Comcast IP address had access to the security key. On its own, Uber inve ...More
EJ Insight2015-12-21
Do away with Hong Kong’s Court of Final Appeal (CFA) after 2047 and leave it all to the Court of Appeal (CA)? Henry Litton, an eminent ex-CFA judge who made off-the-cuff remarks earlier this month in ...More
EJ Insight2015-12-19
... told the court she regretted her crime. “I feel guilty about the attack,” she said. “As an animal rights activist, I should protect not only animals but also human beings.” A verdict is expected next ...More
EJ Insight2015-12-18
... th Korean court in October last year. Prosecutors said a report he wrote in August 2014 over President Park's whereabouts during a ferry disaster, which referred to a rumour she was with a man at the ...More
EJ Insight2015-12-18
... istrates’ Court heard Wednesday. The woman is said to have shouted for help, prompting neighbors to rush to her house and alert the police. According to a Sing Tao Daily report, the woman is the aunt ...More
EJ Insight2015-12-17
... et by the Court of Final Appeal last week. Their request were rejected by Chief Justice of the Court of Final Appeal Geoffrey Ma Tao-li, who questioned why an application was only submitted at the ele ...More
EJ Insight2015-12-17
... district court heard that Gawidan ran away from Lim's flat on April 18 last year and sought refuge at a shelter run by the Humanitarian Organisation for Migration Economics (Home). Home reported her ...More
EJ Insight2015-12-17
... to seek a court injunction to authorize the police to clear the occupied areas during the Umbrella movement last year? Some might argue that posting anti-government messages online is nothing comparab ...More
EJ Insight2015-12-17
... receive a court summons? The cyberworld is always the freest public space. That's exactly why civil disobedience in this domain takes a new, more individualized form as netizens defend their rights an ...More
EJ Insight2015-12-17
Japanese spouses must use the same surname, the Supreme Court has ruled, without saying which name to use. That makes Japan the only member of the G7, a grouping of the world's richest countries, with ...More
EJ Insight2015-12-17
... military court sentenced a single mother to seven years in jail for posting material on the internet insulting to the monarchy. Human Rights Watch said the cases underscore how freedom of speech has ...More
EJ Insight2015-12-17
... in County Court of Common Pleas held them equally culpable, Reuters reports. Jarrod Tutko Jr. was found starved to death in a dark, feces-smeared room last year. His sister, Arianne, was clinging to ...More
EJ Insight2015-12-17
An Indonesian-Hong Kong woman has been handed a 12-month probation order by a Hong Kong court Tuesday after she was found guilty of "common assault" on an MTR staffer in October. Cheung Siu-fong, 49, ...More
EJ Insight2015-12-16
North Korea's highest court has sentenced a South Korean-born Canadian pastor to hard labor for life for subversion. Lim Hyeon-soo, the head pastor at a Toronto church that is one of Canada's largest, ...More
EJ Insight2015-12-16
