... the High Court on Tuesday to accept the sentence and expects to spend 31 days in prison after deducting the holidays. Before sending him away, the judge confirmed the appeal decision with Tsang, warn ...More
EJ Insight2017-03-21
Is Hong Kong suffering from restricted access to justice? On March 17th, in the 53 cases listed for hearing in the High Court, 27 of the litigants were representing themselves. Their opponents ranged ...More
EJ Insight2017-03-21
... Egyptian court earlier this month to acquit the nation's former ruler Hosni Mubarak of charges of involvement in the deaths of protesters during the 2011 uprising. Following the ruling by Egypt's top ...More
EJ Insight2017-03-20
... , and the courts have been under the spotlight with constitutional questions at the fore," Andrew Heyn, British Consul General to Hong Kong and Macau, said on Thursday. Addressing a gathering in Hong ...More
EJ Insight2017-03-17
Three people who were found guilty of rioting during the Mong Kok clashes last year were on Friday handed three-year jail terms by a local court. Announcing the sentencing, District Court judge Sham S ...More
EJ Insight2017-03-17
A Hong Kong court on Thursday found three people guilty of rioting in a case related to the violent incidents that took place in Mong Kok in February last year. The District Court ruled that the charg ...More
EJ Insight2017-03-17
An Eastern magistrate's court acquitted two employees of a pharmacy charged with violating the Trade Descriptions Ordinance. The judge lashed out at a senior official from the Customs and Excise Depar ...More
EJ Insight2017-03-17
South Korea’s Constitutional Court has unanimously upheld the legislature’s impeachment of Park Geun-hye as president, making her the first democratically elected leader in the country to be stripped ...More
EJ Insight2017-03-16
... ck in the court of the 1,200 Election Committee (EC) members, because it is now entirely up to them to decide who is going to be the next CE. In the following paragraphs, I will weigh the three candid ...More
EJ Insight2017-03-16
Former TVB general manager Stephen Chan has been cleared of corruption by Hong Kong’s top court, ending a legal battle that began more than seven years ago, the Hong Kong Economic Journal reports. In ...More
EJ Insight2017-03-15
... y federal courts, the state of Washington, along with California, Maryland, Massachusetts, New York and Oregon, filed court papers in a bid to prevent the March 6 order from taking effect, the report ...More
EJ Insight2017-03-14
South Korea's ousted leader Park Geun-hye left the presidential Blue House on Sunday, two days after a court upheld a parliament decision to impeach her over a corruption scandal. Facing life as a pri ...More
EJ Insight2017-03-13
... rough the courts. Strongly worded lawyers' letters are relatively cheap and because they involve no actual proceedings are often used as an end in themselves. As a journalist I have been in receipt of ...More
EJ Insight2017-03-10
South Korea's Constitutional Court has upheld a decision by the country's parliament to impeach President Park Geun-hye, removing her from office over a graft scandal. Following a unanimous vote by ei ...More
EJ Insight2017-03-10
... District Court Judge Derrick Watson in Hawaii said the state could revise its initial lawsuit, which had challenged Trump's original ban signed in January, according to Reuters. The state is claiming ...More
EJ Insight2017-03-09
Legislator Junius Ho Kwan-yiu opened himself up to contempt of court last year after posting on Facebook a selfie he took at a courtroom on April 28, news website HK01.com reports. Ho was pictured ins ...More
EJ Insight2017-03-08
... he actual court case is concluded. In a sense, netizens who take part in cyber-lynching are just like the lynch mob in ancient times. The only difference is that in the age of the internet, they don’t ...More
EJ Insight2017-03-08
... District Court in Texas. The Shenzhen-based company has a US subsidiary in Richardson, Texas. -- Contact us at [email protected] RA ...More
EJ Insight2017-03-08
... the High Court on his behalf, but did not elaborate, the Hong Kong Economic Journal reports. Kenneth Leung, who represents the accounting profession, said last week he received a letter on Thursday f ...More
EJ Insight2017-03-07
