Two Nepali men were sentenced Wednesday to eight years in prison for manslaughter by the High Court, Sing Tao Daily reported. Magar Sagar, 23, a chef, and Gurung Roshan, 27, a bartender, pleaded guilt ...More
EJ Insight2015-11-11
... sting the court injunction that prohibits the circulation of the information leaked from HKU Council meetings. The reason is to defend the public’s right to know. Now that the High Court has ruled tha ...More
EJ Insight2015-11-11
... istrates’ Court, on Tuesday sentenced Chow Siu-shuen to four months in jail for aiding, abetting, counseling or procuring a breach of conditions of stay for her 12-year-old grandson Siu Yau-wai, but a ...More
EJ Insight2015-11-11
A 40-year-old woman is awaiting sentencing after admitting in court that she asked her daughter, who was 13 at the time, to have sex with the son of a rich man. The mother told her daughter to agree t ...More
EJ Insight2015-11-11
Two Nepali men pleaded guilty in the High Court Tuesday to the manslaughter of a Nepali teenager, public broadcaster RTHK reported. Two groups of young Nepalis fought at a basketball court in Nam Pin ...More
EJ Insight2015-11-10
The High Court should drop charges against 20 Occupy activists as the Department of Justice (DOJ) has failed to follow proper procedures in seeking prosecution for contempt of court, a lawyer represen ...More
EJ Insight2015-11-10
Two men who threw eggs at student activist Joshua Wong last November were on Monday handed two-week jail terms by a Hong Kong court. The order came after prosecutors filed a review petition over a pre ...More
EJ Insight2015-11-10
US President Barack Obama's plan to shield millions of undocumented immigrants from deportation suffered a legal setback. By a 2-1 decision, the 5th US Circuit Court of Appeals in New Orleans upheld a ...More
EJ Insight2015-11-10
... dgment or court order in Hong Kong, shareholders may need to do the same in the relevant offshore domicile, which the company likely selected for its propensity to thwart external pressures. Potential ...More
EJ Insight2015-11-10
... the High Court, Commercial Radio said it would abide by the terms of an interim injunction. On Friday, the court decided to adjourn the case and extend the gag order. Meanwhile, Leung is yet to annou ...More
EJ Insight2015-11-09
Apple Inc. defeated a US class-action lawsuit brought by its retail workers over bag search practices at the firm's California stores, Reuters reported. A US district court in San Francisco ruled Satu ...More
EJ Insight2015-11-09
A leaked recording from a controversial University of Hong Kong (HKU) council meeting has surfaced in Taiwan, just days after a Hong Kong court barred the broadcast of any material from the closed-doo ...More
EJ Insight2015-11-09
... which the court has granted to them on an interim basis until Dec. 2, he said. The police department has requested the court for a speedy hearing, Manare said. “The suicide note left by him is a painf ...More
EJ Insight2015-11-09
... the High Court, Commercial Radio said it will abide by the terms of an interim injunction obtained by HKU on Friday last week prohibiting the radio station and "persons unknown" from publishing mater ...More
EJ Insight2015-11-06
... district court in Manhattan on every count of conspiracy and wire fraud they faced, Reuters reported. The verdict marked a victory for the US Justice Department, which brought charges against the Bri ...More
EJ Insight2015-11-06
At her trial in a Tuen Mun court Wednesday, a teacher denied 15 charges of assaulting her students at a primary school for mentally disabled children. Leung Pui-ki, 48, was seen in a video played in c ...More
EJ Insight2015-11-05
... HKU won a court injunction against any further airing of the recording or any public release of transcripts. The porn site version is thought to be a back-up copy not specifically covered by the inj ...More
EJ Insight2015-11-04
... our High Court judges, who are so ignorant about modern human rights, to save their face. Anybody entrusted with public power should be subject to criticism when they do not act in the public interes ...More
EJ Insight2015-11-04
... osely the court hearings related to a media restraining order secured by the HKU Council. A hearing is scheduled for Friday. The HKJA is said to have met with some lawyers Tuesday to obtain legal advi ...More
EJ Insight2015-11-04
An Indian court jailed a driver of US-based ride-hailing company Uber for life for raping a passenger, in a case that highlighted the dangers faced by women from violent sex attackers. Driver Shiv Kum ...More
EJ Insight2015-11-04
