... by a High Court-appointed auditor from Deloitte China who said it was too high for a company with no guarantee of license renewal after November when the permit was up. November has come and gone but ...More
EJ Insight2015-03-26
Barry Cheung Chun-yuen, former chairman of the now-defunct Hong Kong Mercantile Exchange (HKMEx), is facing a fine and imprisonment after admitting in a court on Wednesday that he failed to pay nearly ...More
EJ Insight2015-03-26
A Polish court sentenced a Catholic priest accused of sexually abusing children in Poland and the Dominican Republic to seven years in jail, Reuters reported. The priest will also have to pay his eigh ...More
EJ Insight2015-03-26
... tion in a court in the Haidian District of Beijing, and that hearings will begin next Monday and Tuesday. The report notes several specific articles that were republished without authorization, and s ...More
EJ Insight2015-03-25
... People's Court said. A higher court later upheld the sentence, the official Xinhua news agency reported. Police shot four other assailants dead during the knife attack, which injured 141 people on Ma ...More
EJ Insight2015-03-24
A man was sentenced to life imprisonment for murdering his parents and cutting up their bodies. Hong Kong's High Court said Henry Chow, 31, is a "cold-blooded, dangerous individual" who blamed his par ...More
EJ Insight2015-03-24
... the High Court against Hong Kong resident Arnaud Vagner, Seychelles-based Enlighten Ace Ltd. and any associates “for conspiracy to injure Noble Group”. Noble Group didn't specify their links to Icebe ...More
EJ Insight2015-03-23
... hauled to court by his lawyers, Lee and Lee, of whom his wife Kwa Geok Choo, a brilliant Cambridge-educated lawyer in her own right, was a senior partner. All were given punitive fines for defamation, ...More
EJ Insight2015-03-23
... e Supreme Court on Thursday said it would accept the case after state prosecutors charged Yingluck with dereliction of duty in February, nine months after the military seized power in a power grab. Th ...More
EJ Insight2015-03-19
A US court has dismissed a lawsuit claiming Herbalife Ltd. fraudulently portrayed itself as a legitimate firm and that shareholders lost money because it was actually an illegal pyramid scheme. US Dis ...More
EJ Insight2015-03-19
... tactic in court cases. Cheung said the department has been stepping efforts to improve the work of frontline officers, adding the new figures show the move is succeeding. However, Andrew Shum of polic ...More
EJ Insight2015-03-18
... Criminal Court for directing a campaign of mass killing, rape and pillage against civilians. Other African recipients of Chinese weapons include Nigeria, South Sudan, Somalia, Tunisia and Zimbabwe. “ ...More
EJ Insight2015-03-17
... ubsequent court case found Law had infringed academic freedom, the report said. -- Contact us at [email protected] EL/AC/RA ...More
EJ Insight2015-03-17
... cessarily court the disaster of inflation. Governments issuing bonds and central banks printing notes to buy these bonds may resemble a Ponzi scheme, but policymakers still resort to QE, as the conseq ...More
EJ Insight2015-03-17
China's top judge has apologized for a spate of wrongful convictions and demanded that courts at all levels draw a "profound lesson". Zhou Qiang, chief justice of China’s Supreme People’s Court, said ...More
EJ Insight2015-03-13
Three students who were arrested Sunday during a protest against parallel-goods traders appeared in a Tuen Mun court Tuesday after being charged with assaulting police officers and resisting arrest. M ...More
EJ Insight2015-03-11
... rfully in court that Cho had become abusive as she confronted the crew about service, shouting at them as they kneeled on the floor. Kobre & Kim said in the statement the flight attendant Kim had ...More
EJ Insight2015-03-11
The Philippines' highest court has relaxed its own rules on the annulment of marriage on the ground of psychological incapacity. The Supreme Court said the rules it had put in place nearly two decades ...More
EJ Insight2015-03-10
The Court of Final Appeal became the latest target in a graffiti attack in Hong Kong, with some unknown persons scribbling words that seek to cast the judiciary in an unfavorable light. Security guard ...More
EJ Insight2015-03-10
... ers prior court decisions and follows the language of the law closely. Chinese civil law doesn’t. Civil law has some practical advantages -- such as less need for lawyers -- but Chinese laws tend to ...More
EJ Insight2015-03-09
