... 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
... 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
