... ut to the courts. The proposed changes provide for case-by-case extraditions to countries, including mainland China, beyond the 20 states with which Hong Kong already has treaties. The amendments allo ...More
EJ Insight2019-05-29
... n a state court in the city of Norman that J&J should be forced to pay for helping cause the “worst manmade public health crisis in our state’s history”. His case is the first to reach trial from ...More
EJ Insight2019-05-29
... istrates' Court heard earlier that Hui grabbed the mobile phone of a female Security Bureau official and ran away with it for a while in the Legco compound on April 24, 2018, when lawmakers were delib ...More
EJ Insight2019-05-28
The District Court hearing the bribery case involving former government official Wilson Fung Wing-yip and Macau businesswoman Cheyenne Chan Ung-iok was told that the two defendants had been having a r ...More
EJ Insight2019-05-28
... ation and courts have to take humanitarian and human rights factors into consideration when processing extradition applications. The chamber said in the statement it feels that existing safeguards in ...More
EJ Insight2019-05-28
... Hong Kong court to scrutinize extradition requests made by other jurisdictions in the context of whether they can guarantee fair trials. Instead, in comparison, it would be relatively more flexible fo ...More
EJ Insight2019-05-28
Amid the controversy over the government’s proposed extradition law changes, billionaire Joseph Lau Luen-hung, who was convicted of bribery and money laundering by a Macau court back in 2014 and, in a ...More
EJ Insight2019-05-27
... a higher court in Manila to get the convictions overturned. The families of Leung Shu-fook, Lo Wing-fai, Kwok Kam-wah and Chan Kwok-tung will take the matter to the Court of Appeals in the Philippine ...More
EJ Insight2019-05-24
... Kwun Tak Court in Ho Man Tin, Hoi Tak Court in Cheung Sha Wan, Sheung Man Court in Kwai Chung, Yung Ming Court in Tseung Kwan O, Kam Fai Court in Ma On Shan and Yuk Wo Court in Sha Tin. Those offered ...More
EJ Insight2019-05-24
The High Court approved a request by billionaire Joseph Lau Luen-hung to bring a prominent British lawyer to the legal team that will represent him in a judicial review application against the extradi ...More
EJ Insight2019-05-24
... victed by court martial in 2013 of espionage in connection with the 2010 Wikileaks disclosures. President Barack Obama reduced Manning’s sentence to 7 years from 35 years, but she is now in jail after ...More
EJ Insight2019-05-24
... l appeals court in California. “We strongly disagree with the judge’s conclusions, her interpretation of the facts and her application of the law,” general counsel Don Rosenberg said in a statement. K ...More
EJ Insight2019-05-23
... told the court on the second day of the hearings on Tuesday that he did not know Fung and his wife, saying he usually paid attention only to the address, price, and additional conditions related to t ...More
EJ Insight2019-05-22
... lved in a court case over the selling of the "ding" rights, and as a result, has provoked resentment among some Kuk members, it is believed that some of the 50 enfranchised justices of the peace in th ...More
EJ Insight2019-05-21
... told the court that Fung, who was executive director of corporate development of the Airport Authority when he was charged by the Independent Commission Against Corruption in 2018 and was suspended f ...More
EJ Insight2019-05-21
The Court of Appeal ruled on Thursday that Joshua Wong Chi-fung, a key leader of the 2014 Occupy Movement, should be punished for ignoring a court injunction in the clearance of a protest site, despit ...More
EJ Insight2019-05-17
... itutional court giving same-sex couples the right to marry, and setting a deadline of May 24 for legislation. Taipei’s colorful gay pride parade, one of Asia’s largest, puts on display every year the ...More
EJ Insight2019-05-17
... as a food court. Question: do we need a food court in the heart of Central? Apart from Grappa's, the building already boasts Miso, a Japanese restaurant, Chiuchow Garden Restaurant, Morty's delicatess ...More
EJ Insight2019-05-15
