... felt the court judgment would only widen the rifts within the community, prompting them to think about some remedial action. Wu's suggestion of a pardon for the jailed activists as well as policemen ...More
EJ Insight2017-04-19
An Eastern magistrates' court has adjourned hearings on the case of a localist lawmaker charged with desecrating the national and Hong Kong flags. Principal magistrate Bina Chainrai on Tuesday moved t ...More
EJ Insight2017-04-19
... spect for court decisions that are not to their liking and taking to the streets condemning or even threatening judges who they believe have been too lenient on pro-democracy activists. The degree to ...More
EJ Insight2017-04-18
... nces, the court tends to accept charges brought in the form of statutory law crimes rather than common law crimes, because of the unambiguous nature of the statutory law. In fact, the justice departme ...More
EJ Insight2017-04-13
... ty by the court, could face a jail sentence of one month or more and lose his Legco seat as well. Cheng stressed that a lawmaker cannot be punished for words and actions during council meetings becaus ...More
EJ Insight2017-04-13
... ns to the court decision, saying Yee did not qualify as a political prisoner or dissident at all. The department argued that the Singaporean authorities had followed due process and standard procedure ...More
EJ Insight2017-04-13
... e initial court hearing, the lawyer representing Yee argued that his client fully met the key criteria of being a political prisoner under the United Nations Convention Relating to the Status of Refug ...More
EJ Insight2017-04-12
A District Court judge has sentenced a man to four years and three months in prison after he was convicted on two charges relating to last year's rioting in Mong Kok. Yeung Ka-Lun, a 32-year-old techn ...More
EJ Insight2017-04-11
... ubted the court will accept the case. A police source said Cheng might be arrested at his home or his office if he fails to respond. He said the police took six months to move on Cheng, pending instru ...More
EJ Insight2017-04-11
... istrate's court on Friday, Apple Daily reports. A school bus driver reported the man to management after he saw him wandering in an underground passage in the back of the school with a four-inch-long ...More
EJ Insight2017-04-07
... n federal court in San Francisco and said that the account, @ALT_uscis, claimed to be run by at least one federal immigration employee. The acronym CIS refers to US Citizenship and Immigration Service ...More
EJ Insight2017-04-07
... itutional court and other institutions in the event of an unforeseen crisis. Removing it underlined the king's role. "In practice, the king will have more say, more power," Kan Yuenyong, executive dir ...More
EJ Insight2017-04-07
... citing a court filing by the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission. "Consumer guarantee rights under the Australian Consumer Law exist independently of any manufacturer's warranty and are no ...More
EJ Insight2017-04-06
A District Court judge has sentenced a Pakistani man to five years and three months in prison after he was found guilty of two human trafficking-related charges. Suleman Muhammad, 27, was charged with ...More
EJ Insight2017-04-06
... mainland court sentenced Su Rong, 66, a CPPCC vice-chairman, to life in prison for taking 116 million yuan (US$16.84 million) in bribes between 2002 and 2014. His personal assets were confiscated. -- ...More
EJ Insight2017-04-05
... S Supreme Court will depend on how many phone calls senators receive. Both Democratic and Republican senators want to sense their constituents’ mood – and there is no better way to get this across tha ...More
EJ Insight2017-04-03
... y a local court for beating up a democracy activist during the 2014 Occupy campaign. After the commentary was published, pro-establishment circles began attacking Yau, and one pro-Beijing group in par ...More
EJ Insight2017-04-03
... ired High Court judge Woo Kwok-hing have demonstrated their resolve to defy the odds and attempt the impossible, even if they knew from the outset they could hardly rally the support of the majority o ...More
EJ Insight2017-03-31
... istrates' court to pay a fine of HK$24,000, on top of paying the domestic helper the full amount of wages. The court heard Manjit did not get any holidays during the two months she worked for Kanwalji ...More
EJ Insight2017-03-31
