The former Legislative Council Building was officially reopened on Friday last week as the new headquarters of the Court of Final Appeal. Among the guests at the opening ceremony were Zhou Qiang, pre ...More
EJ Insight2015-10-03
... es in the Court of Final Appeal as examples. -- Contact us at [email protected] TL/AC/CG ...More
EJ Insight2015-10-02
... ored in a court case posted online earlier this year as part of a government transparency drive. In September last year, a court in southwestern China's Yunnan province jailed a man for three years af ...More
EJ Insight2015-10-02
... the High Court and handed prison terms. However, Marine Department officials have largely escaped prosecution, even though the investigation report of an independent commission has confirmed that the ...More
EJ Insight2015-09-29
... easonable court judgements. For Beijing, we would like to believe they have softened their approach toward Hong Kong people – with the exception of a few intransigent officials who are still trying to ...More
EJ Insight2015-09-28
Hong Kong will hold a ceremony Friday to mark the move of the Court of Final Appeal into new premises in Central, officially giving it a permanent home in the former Legislative Council building. Lega ...More
EJ Insight2015-09-25
A database should be established to record police officers found to have given false testimonies in court against pro-democracy protesters in last year's Occupy campaign, a legal expert said. Such a d ...More
EJ Insight2015-09-25
... he latest court case, a woman found a chewed gum inside a piece of sushi she ordered at a Maxim's Caterers restaurant, Apple Daily reported on Friday. Court records show that on July 8, 2014, a woman ...More
EJ Insight2015-09-25
Having foreign judges sit in the Court of Final Appeal helps Hong Kong maintain its high degree of autonomy under the Basic Law and the independence of the judiciary, former chief justice Andrew Li Kw ...More
EJ Insight2015-09-25
... thus the court had to defend them. Why is there no such duty to protect minibus drivers from the assaults of visiting tourists, or road users and pedestrians from drunken bus thieves? Instead, Easter ...More
EJ Insight2015-09-25
... 008, a US court convicted Kuang along with others in a scheme to bilk the bank of US$485 million and launder the money through casinos and the US financial system. She was sentenced to eight years i p ...More
EJ Insight2015-09-25
... , Supreme Court justices and other dignitaries packed inside the House of Representatives chamber to hear the first address by a pope to a joint meeting of the House and the Senate. Harsh rhetoric tow ...More
EJ Insight2015-09-25
... to attend court hearings. During the preliminary hearings, he was allowed to travel to Taiwan. Lew Mon-hung (劉夢熊), a former business partner of Wong, said he got to know of Wong's disappearance from m ...More
EJ Insight2015-09-24
A French court has rejected a challenge by Uber Technologies Inc. against a law that bans its low-cost Uberpop. The ruling by the country's highest constitutional court keeps legal pressure on the car ...More
EJ Insight2015-09-23
... rovincial court in Vancouver last week after pleading guilty to eight charges in connection with his immigration businesses. Wang stamped his clients' Chinese passports with fake Canada immigration vi ...More
EJ Insight2015-09-22
... o federal court decision in a case that might force the startup to change its business model and erode its US$50 billion valuation. While Monday’s ruling isn’t binding on other state judges, it will g ...More
EJ Insight2015-09-22
... ce of the Court of Final Appeal, who spoke publicly last Wednesday dismissing Zhang's theory. In rare comments to the media, Ma refuted Zhang and Rao once and for all by pointing out in no uncertain t ...More
EJ Insight2015-09-21
... n various court judgments. Barrister Anthony Neoh, a former chairman of Securities and Futures Commission, said separation of the three branches of government -- executive, legislative and judicial -- ...More
EJ Insight2015-09-21
... e public. Court case and legal data monitoring is a very tedious process, but if a person keeps at it he can uncover cases of business troubles at the earliest. "I spend about two hours checking the c ...More
EJ Insight2015-09-21
... ations. A court hearing on the latter will take place on Oct. 29. The two girls were said to have sold brownies and cup cakes containing marijuana to students on the school's sports day on Nov. 3 last ...More
EJ Insight2015-09-18
