... card, the court heard. The boy is a mentee of the woman's boyfriend. The incident came to light after the child complained to a school social worker. The woman's boyfriend later told reporters he int ...More
EJ Insight2015-12-08
A woman who videotaped two policemen giving traffic violation tickets to her husband has been sentenced to 12 months in prison. The 27-year-old housewife, surnamed Kam, was convicted by a Macau court ...More
EJ Insight2015-12-07
... ording to court documents. The villagers received HK$130,000 (US$16,770) to HK$250,000 from the sale of land rights. The offenses took place between 2008 and 2011. The court heard that the group took ...More
EJ Insight2015-12-07
... nging new court cases and began sewing the concepts developed to remedy those cases into the US common law system. China follows the civil law system. It also has an unrefined concept of fiduciary du ...More
EJ Insight2015-12-07
... lied with court orders to take down at least 10 websites. Ng Chung-tat, convenor of Civil Human Rights Front’s police power monitoring group, said the police have infringed freedom of speech by such r ...More
EJ Insight2015-12-07
... d require court orders to remove or block anything beyond that. Anyone can report or flag content for review and possible removal. But the truth is far more subtle and complicated. According to former ...More
EJ Insight2015-12-07
... istrates' court, the judge took less than 40 minutes to review the clip and dismiss the charges for lack of evidence. The magistrate said the plaintiffs might have conspired to give false statements. ...More
EJ Insight2015-12-04
Catalonia will not let a Spanish court's ruling derail its fight for independence, the acting head of the region's government said. On Wednesday, Spain's Constitutional Court annulled a Catalan assemb ...More
EJ Insight2015-12-04
US prosecutors charged 16 people, including soccer bosses from across South and Central America, with multimillion-dollar bribery schemes for marketing and broadcast rights. Court documents showed tha ...More
EJ Insight2015-12-04
South Africa's "Blade Runner" Oscar Pistorius was found guilty on Thursday of murdering his girlfriend, in an appeal court ruling that could see him sent back to prison for at least 15 years. The Supr ...More
EJ Insight2015-12-04
... istrates' court. It pleaded guilty to selling expired and improperly marked food in three Wellcome stores in Tak Bo Garden in Kowloon Bay, Jade Mansion in Yau Ma Tei and Infinity Eight in Clearwater B ...More
EJ Insight2015-12-03
... apply for court order to block a specific internet website from being browsed within Hong Kong. The danger lies in the potential misuse of the law to curb the freedom of expression and privacy of comm ...More
EJ Insight2015-12-03
... istrates' Court. He said he did so after he lost a Rolex watch worth HK$30,000 to a prostitute he hired for a body massage but he did not want his wife to know the truth. The court heard that he told ...More
EJ Insight2015-12-03
Asia Television Ltd. (ATV) executive director Yip Ka-bo was handed a HK$150,000 fine in court on Wednesday after he was found guilty of 100 counts of failure to pay his employees' wages on time. Yip s ...More
EJ Insight2015-12-03
A former top court judge has criticized the misuse of the judicial review system, noting that people have been filing frivolous review applications against decisions taken by the government and public ...More
EJ Insight2015-12-03
... rmer High Court judge, should come forth to answer questions in a new conference, even though he wasn't in office last year. Ip Kwok-him, the Democratic Alliance for the Betterment and Progress of Hon ...More
EJ Insight2015-12-02
... istrates' Court and was taken to hospital before she returned later and admitted she had taken the life jacket as a souvenir, Headline Daily reported. The court heard that He arrived in Hong Kong from ...More
EJ Insight2015-12-02
A Philippine court found a US Marine guilty of killing a transgender woman, jailing him for six to 12 years in a case that has reignited debate over the American military presence in its former colony ...More
EJ Insight2015-12-02
... e used in court but could influence pending lawsuits by families and test relations between Airbus and its top Asian customer, the news agency said. British lawyer James Healy-Pratt said the report in ...More
EJ Insight2015-12-02
A High Court judge has granted permission for the Hong Kong Journalists Association (HKJA) to be included in the trial regarding an injunction against leaking of the proceedings of a University of Hon ...More
EJ Insight2015-12-01