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
... 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
