... unanimous court rulings. In fact, Hong Kong is not entirely without any class-action lawsuit mechanism. For example, the conditions for approval of funding by the Consumer Legal Action Fund under the ...More
EJ Insight2015-07-25
A mainland tourist admitted in court that she smashed a car owned by Sing Tao News Corp. with her umbrella after a reporter and a cameraman from the news outfit approached her for an interview in the ...More
EJ Insight2015-07-24
... asketball court at CCC Kei Chun Primary School in Kwai Chung on December 9, 2013. She was in the fifth-grade at that time. Following a forensic investigation, Ko determined that Law fell from a height ...More
EJ Insight2015-07-24
... fly, the court heard. Defense lawyers initially denied the claim, saying the girl mixed up the bun with others bought by her mother on the same day. But the girl shut down the defense argument by sh ...More
EJ Insight2015-07-23
... om Yue On Court in the Southern district and another from Siu Hong Court in Tuen Mun also contained excessive nickel. A sample from Lei Tung Estate in the Southern district was found to contain 12 mil ...More
EJ Insight2015-07-23
... outcry. A court later upheld a US$2.4 million fine against Ai for tax evasion. The world-renowned artist maintains that the charges from the tax evasion case were trumped up in retaliation for his cri ...More
EJ Insight2015-07-23
... Las Vegas court that is hearing a civil action by the former head of its Macau casinos, who is suing the firm for wrongful dismissal. “A reliable source has reported that central Chinese government of ...More
EJ Insight2015-07-23
A court in northern Myanmar has handed life imprisonment to 153 Chinese nationals after convicting them of illegal logging, Reuters reported. Two other Chinese citizens were given 10-year jail terms f ...More
EJ Insight2015-07-23
... the High Court on Wednesday, the prosecution said the two knifemen, Yip Kim-wah and Wong Chi-wah, were offered HK$100,000 each to launch the brutal attack on Lau in February last year. Using a stolen ...More
EJ Insight2015-07-22
... ermediate Court, there were already fakes in the storeroom when he started work there. But Xiao said he was surprised to find later that his own fakes were being stolen and replaced with further fakes ...More
EJ Insight2015-07-22
... the High Court of Hong Kong on Monday. A hearing has been scheduled for Oct. 14. In a filing with the stock exchange on Tuesday, Glorious Property said it has repaid the 50 million yuan (US$8.05 mil ...More
EJ Insight2015-07-22
... istrates’ Court on Monday rendered the ruling against Lu Huaqian, 30, who pleaded guilty to charges of indecent assault and disobedience to orders given by the flight crew on behalf of the chief pilot ...More
EJ Insight2015-07-21
A Brazilian court has convicted three executives of conglomerate Camargo Correa group on money laundering, corruption and other charges. They were the first construction executives to be found guilty ...More
EJ Insight2015-07-21
... istrate's court found So Suet-ling, 65, guilty of one count of common assault and sentenced her to a 14-day prison term suspended for 12 months. Her husband, Chan Nam-sing, 72, was fined HK$8,000 (US$ ...More
EJ Insight2015-07-20
A magistrate has accused Geoffrey Ma Tao-li, chief justice of the Court of Final Appeal, of obstruction of justice and misconduct in public office, Ming Pao Daily reported Monday. Symon Wong Yu-wing o ...More
EJ Insight2015-07-20
... violating court rules. Zhou Shifeng, the director of the firm, is said to have pleaded guilty. The Fengrui firm has been accused of orchestrating protests outside courts to help secure favorable verdi ...More
EJ Insight2015-07-20
A 71-year-old man was sentenced in Eastern Magistrates' Court to seven days' jail for common assault on an Occupy Central protester in October, Ming Pao Daily reported Friday. Man Ho-chuen, one of the ...More
EJ Insight2015-07-17
Glen Lee Lam-yan, the only son of Hong Kong's former security secretary Ambrose Lee Siu-kwong, pleaded guilty at a local court Thursday to a charge of drunk driving, Ming Pao Daily reported. Lee, 35, ...More
EJ Insight2015-07-17
... District Court Judge Carlos Samour. The gunman stood beside his court-appointed attorneys, looking straight ahead with his hands in his pockets. The trial now enters the punishment phase, when the ju ...More
EJ Insight2015-07-17
... istrates' Court on Wednesday without any legal representation, entered no plea to charges of illegal hawking and causing obstruction on the street, Apple Daily reported on Thursday. Since he retired s ...More
EJ Insight2015-07-16
