Leung Kwok-hung and Lau Siu-lai, two of the four pro-democracy lawmakers who were disqualified by the High Court in July for improper oath-taking last year, took their cases to the Court of Appeal. Th ...More
EJ Insight2017-09-12
... d General Court, Europe’s second-highest, is expected to take several years before ruling on the appeal. A court spokeswoman said Google had not asked for an interim order to suspend the European Unio ...More
EJ Insight2017-09-12
... gnize the court's authority. Lee Ming-che, a community college teacher known for his pro-democracy and rights activism, went missing on a trip to mainland China in March. China’s authorities later con ...More
EJ Insight2017-09-12
... ce but to court the US. Abe, in fact, has done so assiduously, and successfully, ever since Trump’s election. But, in the long run, Japan understandably wants to have much greater control over decisio ...More
EJ Insight2017-09-11
... uperb all-court tennis, there was no weakness for him to exploit. In the end, he and the crowd could only watch as Nadal punched his hands into the air in victory, one finger raised to signal his stat ...More
EJ Insight2017-09-11
... A French court ruled in July French court ruled that Google, now part of Alphabet Inc., was not liable to pay 1.1 billion euros (US$1.3 billion) in back taxes because it had no “permanent establishme ...More
EJ Insight2017-09-11
Civic Passion lawmaker Cheng Chung-tai appeared in court on Thursday and denied two charges of desecrating the regional and national flags last October during a Legislative Council session. The incide ...More
EJ Insight2017-09-08
Last month our courts made several landmark decisions that helped to set the record straight on the idea of the so-called civil disobedience that has been advocated by some pro-democracy intellectuals ...More
EJ Insight2017-09-08
... itutional Court, Spain’s highest legal authority on such matters, suspended the referendum law late on Thursday to allow judges time to consider whether the vote breaches the country’s constitution. P ...More
EJ Insight2017-09-08
... se to the Court of Appeal despite the fact that the prosecutions division of the DOJ had advised him against doing so. So far, Secretary Yuen hasn't publicly denied the reports about his role in the c ...More
EJ Insight2017-09-06
The fact that the Court of Appeal has overruled the magistrates’ court over a trespassing case involving three student leaders and sentenced them to jail has sparked a heated controversy. A lot of peo ...More
EJ Insight2017-09-05
A district court sentenced a minibus driver to 21 months in jail and suspended his driving license for five years after convicting him of dangerous driving resulting in death, Apple Daily reports. Lee ...More
EJ Insight2017-09-05
... . 17, the Court of Appeal sentenced three former student leaders－Joshua Wong, Nathan Law and Alex Chow -- to six to eight months in prison for their part in the 2014 democracy protests. That came afte ...More
EJ Insight2017-09-05
A South Korean court on Monday rejected Qualcomm's request to suspend an order by the country’s antitrust agency to take corrective action on the way it licenses patents, Reuters reports. In December, ...More
EJ Insight2017-09-05
... trols the courts. But this system is now being undermined, ironically by people in the West who mean Hong Kong well. Many of them, suspicious of China and its attempts to control Hong Kong, jumped to ...More
EJ Insight2017-09-04
A Pakistani antiterrorism court acquitted five men of involvement in the 2007 assassination of former Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto on Thursday, while declaring former President Pervez Musharraf a fug ...More
EJ Insight2017-09-01
... ncies the court pointed out,” John Yanchunis, a lawyer for the plaintiffs who chairs an executive committee overseeing the case, said in an interview. “It’s the biggest data breach in the history of t ...More
EJ Insight2017-09-01
... guilty in court. On Wednesday, outgoing vice chancellor Peter Mathieson, said that he had received a handful of requests to sack Tai. Mathieson did not say who sent the letters but said he had read th ...More
EJ Insight2017-08-31
... ansparent court proceeding when the government appealed against the community service sentence as being too light. Yet the opposition dragged Hong Kong's judiciary through the mud in the international ...More
EJ Insight2017-08-31
... ork state court. The lawsuit was filed in New York because Guo, who also goes by the name Miles Kwok, lives in an apartment in Manhattan and operates a business in New York County, according to the co ...More
EJ Insight2017-08-31
