... bitration court ruled in favor of the Philippines, undermining China's territorial claims. Since 2012, China had used its coast guard to block the waters around the shoal from Filipinos, but Chinese v ...More
EJ Insight2016-11-28
... the High Court from taking office over their improper oath-taking, the Hong Kong Economic Journal reports. The ruling followed an interpretation of Article 104 of the Basic Law by China's legislature ...More
EJ Insight2016-11-25
... ance, the court will only take into account the actual manner in which the defendants took their oath and the wording they used in their oath on Oct. 12. Any other factors such as the remarks they mad ...More
EJ Insight2016-11-25
... the High Court disqualified Youngspiration duo Sixtus "Baggio" Leung Chung-hang and Yau Wai-ching. On Tuesday the pro-establishment Sing Tao Daily published an exclusive story saying the government i ...More
EJ Insight2016-11-24
Last week, the High Court ruled in favor of the government and declared the lawmaker status of two Youngspiration activists null and void. The decision came as it was deemed that the manner in which t ...More
EJ Insight2016-11-24
... d for the court or the administration to take action against a lawmaker for their behavior in their own turf. Doing so may damage the separation of powers in the Hong Kong government. President Xi Ji ...More
EJ Insight2016-11-23
... the High Court from the Legislative Council for improperly taking their oaths of office. They are appealing the decision. According to a post on Yau's Facebook page, the letter wound up not being sen ...More
EJ Insight2016-11-23
... ly on the court to redress social inequalities. As I have stressed over and over again, if the people of Hong Kong really want to achieve self-determination and topple the status quo, they can rely on ...More
EJ Insight2016-11-23
When High Court Justice Thomas Au ruled in favor of the government in the recent oath-taking case and declared the lawmaker status of the Youngspiration duo null and void, some critics and members of ...More
EJ Insight2016-11-23
... seeking a court order to get pilots back to work. "We expect the court will uphold our position that the actions taken by the union to refuse work assignments is not legal, and the issues involved con ...More
EJ Insight2016-11-23
A high school chemistry teacher has been sentenced to five years in prison after being convicted of indecently assaulting three underage students and having sex with two of them. High Court Justice An ...More
EJ Insight2016-11-22
Radical lawmaker “Long Hair” Leung Kwok-hung said he will appeal against the seven-day jail term handed to him by a court for disrupting an inter-school debate competition at Queen Elizabeth Stadium o ...More
EJ Insight2016-11-22
... 我「周星馳」上身；上court時脫下我隻16cm Louboutin高跟鞋掟向高高在上的西人法官。然後鏡頭立刻 ...全文
... MG is the court-appointed receiver. Passers-by were seen stopping by the Page One store in Harbour City to check out the notice. Caren, a long-time customer who works in the advertising industry, said ...More
EJ Insight2016-11-18
A domestic worker has filed a judicial review in the High Court against a requirement that helpers live and work in their employer's residence. Nancy Almorin Lubiano said the requirement violates a ba ...More
EJ Insight2016-11-18
The oath-taking farce involving the Youngspiration duo has seen a chapter come to close as the High Court ruled on Tuesday that the two-lawmakers elect must be disqualified as they had grossly violate ...More
EJ Insight2016-11-18
The Court of Appeal will hear next Thursday an appeal from Youngspiration’s Sixtus Leung and Yau Wai-ching against their disqualification as lawmakers for taking invalid oaths, RTHK reports. Meanwhile ...More
EJ Insight2016-11-18
Manila might follow the example of Moscow and withdraw from the International Criminal Court (ICC), Philippines President Rodrigo Duterte said on Thursday. Dubbing the ICC as "useless", Duterte accuse ...More
EJ Insight2016-11-18
... on a High Court ruling which effectively barred the duo from taking their seats in the Legisative Council. Last week, after the NPCSC interpretation was announced, three out of four major newspapers i ...More
EJ Insight2016-11-17
... s. A High Court judge has since ruled otherwise by disqualifying the two. And even moderate democrats condemned the government for filing a judicial review against the two, a case the government has n ...More
EJ Insight2016-11-17
