Shortly after Nathan Law was disqualified by the High Court, along with three other lawmakers, for improper oath-taking, he wrote on social media that the "oath we are taking today has violated the in ...More
EJ Insight2017-07-20
... the High Court disqualified four localist lawmakers for failing to take their oath of office properly in October. The loss of four seats overnight has not only spelled disaster for the pan-democrats, ...More
EJ Insight2017-07-20
... cases in court and local lawyers were warned not to work for us. We had to hire Russian lawyers.” These countries have a system of Russian-based continental law, not common law as in Hong Kong. “Arbi ...More
EJ Insight2017-07-20
... cases in court and local lawyers were warned not to wo ...全文
今日信報時事評論Mark O’Neill2017年07月20日
... the High Court on Tuesday, Rankothpedi Duravalage Kamalawathi, said she had been mistreated by her employer since she was hired in 2012. She claimed that she is now suffering from schizophrenia and a ...More
EJ Insight2017-07-19
Fancy having a badminton court beside your home? Well, you might want to consider a new residential development in Shum Shui Po, a district known for having some of the smallest flats ever built in th ...More
EJ Insight2017-07-19
... lt of the court rulings on their behavior when they took their oaths of office last October, and two more could be added to the list. The rulings were based on a National People’s Congress interpretat ...More
EJ Insight2017-07-19
The High Court decision last Friday to disqualify four lawmakers has dealt a death blow to the pan-democrats and completely upset the balance of power in the Legislative Council. Worse still, the saga ...More
EJ Insight2017-07-19
As the High Court decision last Friday to disqualify four localist lawmakers has thrown the pan-democrats into disarray and taken a heavy toll on relations between the executive branch and the legisla ...More
EJ Insight2017-07-19
... explosive court decision last Friday to disqualify four lawmakers for improper oath-taking. The court ruling has not only completely upset the balance of power between pan-democrats and the pro-estab ...More
EJ Insight2017-07-18
... The High Court has ruled that the four did not take their oaths of office correctly during the swearing-in ceremony last October, rendering them invalid. Fellow lawmaker Alvin Yeung Ngok-kiu also sai ...More
EJ Insight2017-07-17
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
