... 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
A High Court judge has sentenced a former student activist to three months in jail after finding him guilty of ignoring a court injunction that was issued to help the police clear the streets in Mong ...More
EJ Insight2017-03-31
Opposition leaders branded Venezuela's socialist President Nicolas Maduro a "dictator" on Thursday after the Supreme Court took over the functions of Congress and pushed a lengthy political standoff t ...More
EJ Insight2017-03-31
A South Korean court has approved a warrant to arrest ousted president Park Geun-hye, the country's first democratically elected leader to be thrown out of office, on accusations of bribery and abuse ...More
EJ Insight2017-03-31
... ankruptcy Court of New York on Wednesday, it said. The move came after Westinghouse incurred billions in cost overruns related to four nuclear reactors it is building in the southeastern US, the Wall ...More
EJ Insight2017-03-30
... n federal court with obstruction of justice and making false statements to the Federal Bureau of Investigation. Claiborne appeared before a magistrate judge with her lawyer, David Bos, but both declin ...More
EJ Insight2017-03-30
... you leave court with your client's appreciation warming your ears because he knows that everything that could have been done on his behalf had been done and done with professional skill and determinat ...More
EJ Insight2017-03-29
... istrates' court on Thursday. It is expected their cases will be transferred to the District Court, the Hong Kong Economic Journal reports. The source told RTHK that the nine people were among 48 who w ...More
EJ Insight2017-03-29
... appear in court on Thursday. The timing of the action on the pro-democracy activists is curious to say the least, given that it came as CE-elect Lam was talking about the need for reconciliation in so ...More
EJ Insight2017-03-28
A Singapore court on Monday handed jail sentences to a local couple who pleaded guilty to starving their domestic worker from the Philippines. Finance trader Lim Choon Hong was jailed for three weeks ...More
EJ Insight2017-03-28
... istrates' court. Chu's arrest came one day after former chief secretary Carrie Lam won the chief executive election on Sunday and coincided with similar moves on several leaders of the 2014 Occupy mov ...More
EJ Insight2017-03-28
... People's Court. The judge ruled that Yu had not been in a life-threatening situation despite being held down and dismissed his plea of self-defense. On Feb. 17, Yu was sentenced to life in prison. Th ...More
EJ Insight2017-03-27
... itutional court upheld this month a parliamentary impeachment. Park has been accused of colluding with a friend, Choi Soon-sil, to pressure big businesses to donate to two foundations set up to back t ...More
EJ Insight2017-03-27
... rnational Court of Justice to rule on the legality of the threat or use of nuclear weapons. In July 1996, the ICJ issued an advisory opinion, with two key conclusions. First, “the threat or use of nuc ...More
EJ Insight2017-03-27
