A Hong Kong court on Friday disqualified four pro-democracy legislators from office following an oath-taking controversy. The High Court ruled that Nathan Law, Leung Kwok-hung, Lau Siu-lai and Edward ...More
EJ Insight2017-07-14
... nt to the court which he was not allowed to deliver. In part it said: "I firmly believe that China's political progress will not stop, and I, filled with optimism, look forward to the advent of a futu ...More
EJ Insight2017-07-14
An apology can no longer be used in court against the one saying sorry. In a 46 to 2 vote, the Legislative Council on Thursday passed the Apology Bill, making Hong Kong the first jurisdiction in Asia ...More
EJ Insight2017-07-14
... n federal court, which impose a temporary ban on travel to the US for most citizens from Iran, Libya, Somalia, Sudan, Syria, and Yemen. While the orders were initially blocked from being enforced, the ...More
EJ Insight2017-07-14
A French court ruled on Wednesday that Google was not liable to pay 1.1 billion euros (US$1.3 billion) in back taxes demanded by the French authorities. The Paris administrative court ruled that a Goo ...More
EJ Insight2017-07-13
... awaiting court hearings over judicial review applications filed by the Justice Department to seek their disqualification over alleged breach of the Basic Law. In fact not only CY Leung, but also some ...More
EJ Insight2017-07-12
... District Court in Manhattan and require a judge's approval. They boost the total payout from 10 settling banks to US$408.5 million. HSBC and UBS have denied wrongdoing. Several pension funds and muni ...More
EJ Insight2017-07-12
... Coroner's Court hearing has been scheduled over the deceased suspect. On May 7, a young woman was assaulted under a footbridge in Kowloon Bay close to the MTR station. It began as a robbery incident ...More
EJ Insight2017-07-06
A Chinese court has frozen nearly US$181 million in assets partially owned by LeEco Holdings founder Jia Yueting over a missed interest payment, and an additional US$2.3 billion worth of shares in the ...More
EJ Insight2017-07-06
... Hong Kong court recently convicted Uber drivers of driving without a permit and third-party insurance, while the government has adopted more stringent enforcement to deter the car-sharing service. Hon ...More
EJ Insight2017-07-05
A Vietnamese-Canadian pleaded not guilty to a charge of murder for stabbing a 7-Eleven storekeeper to death, saying the devil had told him to do so. The High Court heard that Bui Van Cuong, 32, who c ...More
EJ Insight2017-07-05
... Shanghai court over late payments, Reuters reports. The latest financial woes surfaced days after its founder and chief executive Jia Yueting said the conglomerate's cash problems were "far worse tha ...More
EJ Insight2017-07-04
An elderly man who was arrested in connection with a January attack on pro-democracy lawmaker Nathan Law Kwun-chung insisted in a Hong Kong court on Monday that he had done no wrong. The defendant, a ...More
EJ Insight2017-07-04
Facebook Inc. is challenging a gag order from a US court that is preventing the company from talking about three government search warrants that it said pose a threat to freedom of speech, Reuters rep ...More
EJ Insight2017-07-04
... ifying in court in relation to a financial market manipulation case said: "I wanted every bit of money I could get because that’s your performance metric, that’s how you’re judged". Various types of m ...More
EJ Insight2017-07-03
... e Spanish court said he defrauded the Spanish government out of 14.7 million euros. Ronaldo was upset about the tax fraud case, and sensationally said he would leave Spain and is considering a transfe ...More
EJ Insight2017-07-03
... the royal court, they said, in a bid to ensure that Mohammed bin Nayef doesn’t take any steps to rally support. “They want to make sure nothing is being plotted,” one of these people said. Referring t ...More
EJ Insight2017-07-03
... vening in court cases, by abducting people from Hong Kong’s streets, by a rather insidious pressure on the autonomy of education and on civil society, and its office in Hong Kong has increasingly trie ...More
EJ Insight2017-06-29
A Brazilian Supreme Court justice sent a corruption charge against President Michel Temer to Congress on Wednesday, advancing the process under which the top leader could be removed from office to fac ...More
EJ Insight2017-06-29
A woman said she lost both feet and four fingers of her right hand after a beauty clinic injected her with a fluid as part of a beauty treatment in 2012, a court heard on Monday. Wong Ching-bor, 65, g ...More
EJ Insight2017-06-27
