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
... New York court ruled that FIFA had "lied repeatedly" during World Cup sponsorship negotiations with MasterCard, but eight months later he was re-hired as secretary general. Markus Kattner, FIFA's dep ...More
EJ Insight2015-09-18
A US court said Apple Inc. should have been awarded an injunction barring Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. from selling products that infringe its patents. The appeals court in Washington said Thursday th ...More
EJ Insight2015-09-18
A court judge allowed a request for Legislative Council president Jasper Tsang to testify in a court case involving 12 protesters accused of illegal assembly and forcible entry into the Legco building ...More
EJ Insight2015-09-17
Apple Daily and the now defunct Sharp Daily, along with their former editors, have been fined a combined HK$550,000 for contempt of court. The case involved the two newspapers' publication of an inter ...More
EJ Insight2015-09-17
The United Nations has called for a special court with international judges to prosecute war crimes during the Sri Lankan military's long conflict with Tamil Tiger rebels. Newly elected President Mait ...More
EJ Insight2015-09-17
