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
... n federal court in South Carolina on Tuesday evening, Corey Payne and his fiancée, Kayla Harris, said they purchased a three-pack of eclipse glasses on Amazon in early August, assuming that the glasse ...More
EJ Insight2017-08-31
... ansparent court proceeding when the government appealed ...全文
今日信報時事評論STRAIGHT-SHOOTING褚簡寧 Michael Chugani2017年08月31日
Ousted legislators Sixtus Baggio Leung and Yau Wai-ching said they would not take part in the by-election after their appeal against their disqualification was rejected by the Court of Final of Appeal ...More
EJ Insight2017-08-29
After the Court of Appeal accepted the government's application to punish 16 young activists with jail sentences for their participation in anti-government protests, several members of the opposition ...More
EJ Insight2017-08-29
... face of a court trial in Hong Kong. Lee, who has been charged with two counts of rioting and one count of assaulting police following the so-called Fishball Revolution in Mong Kok in February 2016, is ...More
EJ Insight2017-08-28
Thailand’s military junta might have got the result it wanted when former leader Yingluck Shinawatra fled the country before a court could hand down a verdict in her negligence trial last week, the Wa ...More
EJ Insight2017-08-28
... lves with courtesy and thoughtfulness when abroad. These days, Chinese tourists have begun getting a similar reputation. Perhaps most famously and egregiously was the 2013 case of the Chinese teenager ...More
EJ Insight2017-08-28
