A judge condemned Colorado gunman James Holmes to 12 life sentences and the maximum 3,318 years in prison for the 2012 movie rampage that killed 12 people and wounded 70. "It is the court's intention ...More
EJ Insight2015-08-27
... a federal court ruled in Wal-Mart's favor and vacated an injunction that would have required a vote on the issue at its annual shareholders' meeting in June. -- Contact us at [email protected] CG/RA ...More
EJ Insight2015-08-27
... the High Court, all he needed to do was to pay a fine. Therefore, student leaders who are facing criminal charges basically have nothing to worry about except that they might have to bear criminal re ...More
EJ Insight2015-08-26
... . Eastern Court magistrate Bina Chainrai said she has decided to impose a stiffer sentence due to the violent nature of the defendants' actions, Apple Daily reported. Tai Chi-sing, 24, Cheung Chi-pong ...More
EJ Insight2015-08-26
... n federal court in Brooklyn, New York. Reuters is reporting that authorities are moving to seize bank accounts holding US$1.4 million and the website's domain name. US Homeland Security Department age ...More
EJ Insight2015-08-26
A police sergeant pleaded guilty at a local court Tuesday after being charged with fraud and nine other offenses, including accepting and soliciting unauthorized loans worth HK$170,000, RTHK reported. ...More
EJ Insight2015-08-25
... n, a high court judge. Its other commissioner is Alan Lai, who is a former director of the Office of the Ombudsman and a former commissioner of the Independent Commission Against Corruption. The commi ...More
EJ Insight2015-08-24
A Hong Kong news photographer from Initium Media is facing a court hearing in Bangkok after a bullet-proof vest was found in his luggage. The man was stopped from boarding his flight to Hong Kong by a ...More
EJ Insight2015-08-24
... nce, High Court Justice Esther Toh condemned the violence inflicted by Yip and Wong on Lau. She said the severity of the crime, which was carried out in broad daylight, justified a heavy jail term th ...More
EJ Insight2015-08-21
... different court rulings, implying that the workings of our legal system depend on the personalities involved. On Wednesday, two men who threw eggs at student leader Joshua Wong Chi-fung were fined HK$ ...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
