... es, local courts ruled that the property the woman had shared with her husband, including items that had been purchased with proceeds from her labor, should go to her brother-in-law. The young widowed ...More
EJ Insight2015-08-11
... military court hearing on Monday, according to the official Xinhua News Agency. The Journal said a suspended death sentenced is normally commuted to a life term after two years of good behavior. In e ...More
EJ Insight2015-08-11
... Permanent Court of Arbitration in The Hague, this initiative was evidently aimed, at least in part, at Manila. Second, the foreign minister said “countries outside the region” should pledge not to tak ...More
EJ Insight2015-08-10
... at Empire Court in Causeway Bay was leased out at HK$400,000 (US$51282) a month, or about HK$276 psf, according to the Hong Kong Economic Journal. The shop was previously occupied by a fashion retaile ...More
EJ Insight2015-08-07
... at Empire Court has been vacated for almost a year amid a sluggish retail environment in the city. The shop occupies a gross floor area of 1,446 square feet. The total rent translates into HK$276.6 pe ...More
EJ Insight2015-08-07
... hers, the court said in its summary of the verdict. He was first sentenced in March to 12 years in prison. After he appealed, a higher court in Wenzhou upheld the guilty verdict last month. -- Contac ...More
EJ Insight2015-08-06
... pply to a court to remove such electors from the lists. Ming Pao found that one of the three people is named Bian Yiping, the same name as that of the honorary chairman of the Hangzhou Residents Assoc ...More
EJ Insight2015-08-06
... by local courts have raised fears that politics may be creeping into our judicial system and eroding its foundations. This concern is reflected in the results of the latest survey by the University o ...More
EJ Insight2015-08-05
... ce of the Court of Final Appeal, dropped 2.4 points to 66. Impartiality of the courts and fairness of the judicial system were also rated lower. For seven "non-core" social indicators -- the degree of ...More
EJ Insight2015-08-04
Former trader Tom Hayes has been sentenced by a London court to 14 years in jail after he was found guilty of conspiring to rig Libor benchmark interest rates. The jury of five women and seven men on ...More
EJ Insight2015-08-04
... the food court and walking towards the railings from time to time, Ming Pao Daily reported, citing witnesses. When firemen came, he became emotional and rushed to sit on the railings in front of a fa ...More
EJ Insight2015-07-31
Ng Lai-ying, 30, who was convicted of assaulting police chief inspector Chan Ka-po by hitting him with her breasts, was given a jail term of three months and 15 days in a Tuen Mun court on Thursday. M ...More
EJ Insight2015-07-30
... st. Using court documents and interviews, Ho pieced together Pan’s descent from a precocious elementary schooler to a chronic liar who forged report cards, scholarship letters and university transcrip ...More
EJ Insight2015-07-30
... istrate's court sentenced them to nine to 11 days in jail. Another defendant was fined and a sixth is free on bail. The case stemmed from a July 27 incident when angry passengers caused a commotion af ...More
EJ Insight2015-07-30
... t how our court of law treats expert testimony. The court often has to deal with cases in which the facts and details are beyond the scope of the knowledge and expertise of the judges themselves, and ...More
EJ Insight2015-07-29
A Libyan court has sentenced the son of former strongman Muammar Gaddafi to death by firing squad for war crimes during the 2011 revolution. Seif al-Islam Gaddafi and eight former high-ranking regime ...More
EJ Insight2015-07-29
An engineer admitted in court to helping himself to some HK$500,000 in cash after boxes containing millions of dollars of bills fell off a cash delivery van on Gloucester Road in Wan Chai last Christm ...More
EJ Insight2015-07-27
... Permanent Court of Arbitration, despite China’s refusal to take part and its contention that the tribunal lacks jurisdiction. China’s Foreign Ministry last December published a “position paper” explai ...More
EJ Insight2015-07-27
... surge of court filings across the West. A brief reference to Keynes’ quote shows the legal means is not sustainable in the face of an insurmountable tide of the sharing economy. Interestingly, China ...More
EJ Insight2015-07-27
... with the Court of Final Appeal had it not been for former Chief Executive Tung Chee-hwa, who violated the mechanism because he didn’t want to obey a decision made by the Court of Final Appeal in the ...More
EJ Insight2015-07-25
