... n, a high court judge. Its other commissioner is Alan Lai, who is a former director of the Office of the Ombudsman and a former commissioner of the Independent Commission Against Corruption. The commi ...More
EJ Insight2015-08-24
A Hong Kong news photographer from Initium Media is facing a court hearing in Bangkok after a bullet-proof vest was found in his luggage. The man was stopped from boarding his flight to Hong Kong by a ...More
EJ Insight2015-08-24
... nce, High Court Justice Esther Toh condemned the violence inflicted by Yip and Wong on Lau. She said the severity of the crime, which was carried out in broad daylight, justified a heavy jail term th ...More
EJ Insight2015-08-21
... different court rulings, implying that the workings of our legal system depend on the personalities involved. On Wednesday, two men who threw eggs at student leader Joshua Wong Chi-fung were fined HK$ ...More
EJ Insight2015-08-20
A transport worker has been set free by an appeals court after he served 33 months in prison over a robbery case that he was in fact not involved, Ming Pao Daily reported. Chan Wai-sze, 39, had earlie ...More
EJ Insight2015-08-20
... by a High Court jury, Kowloon East crime unit chief inspector Chung Chi-ming said it was the first case of its kind in Hong Kong in which a defendant was convicted in the absence of a body, forensic a ...More
EJ Insight2015-08-20
Four student protesters are facing indictment for storming the Central Government Offices during last year's democracy protests. They have been told by the police that they will be charged in court by ...More
EJ Insight2015-08-19
... s after a court earlier this month overturned approval for India's Adani Group to build one of the world’s biggest new coal mines on scrubland near the Great Barrier Reef, the report noted. Green grou ...More
EJ Insight2015-08-19
... the High Court on Tuesday. In the petition, Derek Chan Tak-cheung, secretary general of the League of Social Democrats, complained that Chinese and other Asian prisoners are not allowed to take Weste ...More
EJ Insight2015-08-18
... e how the court rules on the matter, he said, adding that the issue can be deemed as a test case in a political struggle. While the glass shattered on the floor behind Leung, both pro-democracy and pr ...More
EJ Insight2015-08-18
... ct from a court if Uber proves that they purchased such insurance. Some observers have said the Hong Kong government was being hostile to the new start-up in a bid to protect vested interest groups. U ...More
EJ Insight2015-08-15
... od as the court may determine, but not less than 12 months nor more than 3 years from the date of conviction". Tsang argued that both “illegal carriage of passengers for reward or for hire" and “using ...More
EJ Insight2015-08-14
... e Erwiana court case as she sentenced the employer to seven years in prison for her far-from-uncommon abuses. With at least 30 million international workers currently in place around the Asia-Pacific, ...More
EJ Insight2015-08-14
... rged in a court hearing Thursday with helping the girls’ 53-year-old Filipino mother, Herminia Garcia, overstay her visa. Garcia, who has lived in Hong Kong for more than 20 years and was Cousins’ for ...More
EJ Insight2015-08-14
Former Ming Pao editor Kevin Lau called on authorities to bring to justice the mastermind behind the brutal knife attack he suffered last year, after the High Court found two men guilty of the crime. ...More
EJ Insight2015-08-14
... t of High Court judge Andrew Chan to head an independent Commission of Inquiry into the lead contamination issue at public housing estates. Alan Lai, a former Ombudsman, will be the only other member ...More
EJ Insight2015-08-13
... se to the court for trial and the judge hands down the verdict, the public, and especially the government, should refrain from labeling Uber as an illegal car-hire service. The police raid on Uber's o ...More
EJ Insight2015-08-13
... d, citing court documents. It’s the fourth time in four years that the US is returning a stolen painting to France, according to the embassy. “It’s really a great thing to be able to recover a piece o ...More
EJ Insight2015-08-13
... ed in the Court of First Instance on Tuesday, says Wang paid a total of HK$402 million to buy antique relics between 2004 and 2006 from Liu and a foreign firm, Source Achieve Ltd., but they turned out ...More
EJ Insight2015-08-12
... ermediate Court said the Xinhua report was based on a statement from the court. Fosun said on an official social-media account Tuesday that it didn’t receive inappropriate benefits from Wang’s company ...More
EJ Insight2015-08-12
