Has the Hong Kong judiciary succumbed to political control? This question has been brought into sharp focus in the wake of the Appeal Court’s imposition of heavier sentences on democracy protestors. H ...More
EJ Insight2017-08-25
... g a lower court’s ruling, the Court of Appeal sentenced Wong to six months in prison last Thursday. Fellow democracy protesters Nathan Law Kwun-chung got eight months and and Alex Chow Yong-kang seven ...More
EJ Insight2017-08-25
The Court of Final Appeal will decide on Friday whether or not to accept the application for appeal by two disqualified legislators from localist party Youngspiration. Yau Wai-ching and Sixtus Baggio ...More
EJ Insight2017-08-25
... on of the Court of Appeal in the jailing of Joshua Wong and 15 other activists would be an attack on judicial independence and rule of law, hk01.com reports. The elder Wong also criticised Lam for not ...More
EJ Insight2017-08-24
... on by the Court of Appeal to jail several young activists for their roles in anti-government protests, Lam’s idea has turned into something that reflects the government's insincerity to genuinely list ...More
EJ Insight2017-08-23
When I was a Recorder of the Crown Court of England and Wales, I regarded sentencing as a minefield and the most complex of my duties, in much the same way, I believe, as many judges did and continue ...More
EJ Insight2017-08-23
A jury at the Coroner's Court unanimously decided that a student from Chinese YMCA Secondary School in Tin Shui Wai committed suicide last year, hk01.com reports. After the decision on Tuesday, Corone ...More
EJ Insight2017-08-23
Former Bar Association chairman Paul Shieh Wing-tai said he believes the 16 young activists jailed last week by the Court of Appeal deserve respect, but they also need to realize there is a price to p ...More
EJ Insight2017-08-23
Britain will outline its plans on Wednesday to escape the "direct jurisdiction" of the European Court of Justice after Brexit, one of Prime Minister Theresa May's main aims in talks to unravel 40 year ...More
EJ Insight2017-08-23
India's Supreme Court on Tuesday ruled a controversial Muslim quick divorce law "unconstitutional", a landmark victory for Muslim women who had long argued that it violated their right to equality, Re ...More
EJ Insight2017-08-22
The Court of Appeal's decisions last week to hand out jail terms to young activists and student leaders over 2014 civic and pro-democracy protests have caused widespread dismay in Hong Kong. The rulin ...More
EJ Insight2017-08-22
... The High Court heard that in September 2014, an undercover policewoman pretending to be pregnant went to Lo’s home, a 300 square foot flat at Kwong Tin Estate in Lam Tin, seeking an abortion. The nex ...More
EJ Insight2017-08-22
Chief Executive Carrie Lam Cheng Yuet-ngor said the Court of Appeal's rulings sentencing 16 pro-democracy activists to jail in two separate cases last week were made in the exercise of judicial indepe ...More
EJ Insight2017-08-22
A US court has ordered Johnson & Johnson to pay US$417 million to a woman who claimed she developed ovarian cancer after using the company's talc-based products like Johnson's Baby Powder for femi ...More
EJ Insight2017-08-22
... the high court in Madrid, which has jurisdiction over terrorism matters. Abouyaaqoub lived in Ripoll, a town in the Pyrenees mountains north of Barcelona close to the French border. Islamic State als ...More
EJ Insight2017-08-22
... d to seek court approval on Monday for the sale of Oncor to Berkshire for US$9 billion over opposition from its biggest creditor, hedge fund Elliott Management Corp. Instead, Energy Future lawyer Cha ...More
EJ Insight2017-08-22
... Hong Kong court found five Uber drivers guilty of the crime in March and fined them HK$10,000 each. Uber has said it would help the drivers to appeal and criticized authorities for failing to keep up ...More
EJ Insight2017-08-21
... ai to the Court of Final Appeal in Central. Police estimated the crowd at 22,000 at its peak while the organizers did not give a number. On Thursday, the Court of Appeal sentenced three former student ...More
EJ Insight2017-08-21
Shortly after student leaders Joshua Wong, Nathan Law and Alex Chow were sentenced to 6-8 months in prison by the Court of Appeal last week, the pan-democrats published a joint statement demanding tha ...More
EJ Insight2017-08-21
A lawsuit filed in a US federal court has accused a Nestle SA unit of duping American consumers into paying premium prices for ordinary groundwater that’s pumped from some of Maine’s most populated ar ...More
EJ Insight2017-08-21
