... eports. A court in Taiyuan City in the northern province of Shanxi ruled that Zhao Liping, 65, was guilty of killing a person surnamed Li in March last year, Reuters quoted the Xinhua report as saying ...More
EJ Insight2016-11-11
... Kong High Court could deliver a verdict on a judicial review application filed by the government over the oath-taking of two young lawmakers, it suggests that it was a hasty decision made by Beijing t ...More
EJ Insight2016-11-11
The High Court is being asked to disqualify eight lawmakers whose oath-taking was deemed valid by Legislative Council President Andrew Leung Kwan-yuen. The move came after the National People's Congre ...More
EJ Insight2016-11-11
... told a US court in January. Android's market share in Europe is above 90 percent, according to the European Commission. Walker said the Commission has got the whole case wrong, ignoring both the fierc ...More
EJ Insight2016-11-11
Before being sworn into office, President-elect Donald Trump could face a federal jury in California, courtesy of a lawsuit by former students of his now-defunct Trump University who claim they were d ...More
EJ Insight2016-11-10
... the High Court to provide answers to all these questions and deliver an impartial judgement. This article appeared in the Hong Kong Economic Journal on Nov. 8. Translation by Alan Lee [Chinese versio ...More
EJ Insight2016-11-09
... “…if the courts of the HKSAR need to interpret the provisions of this Law concerning affairs which are the responsibility of the central government or the relationship between the central authorities ...More
EJ Insight2016-11-09
A district court judge has ruled that all prosecution evidence at the Ken Tsang trial is admissible despite a challenge from defense lawyers. Judge David Dufton said there was no reason to question th ...More
EJ Insight2016-11-09
... the High Court to Hong Kong's highest court, underscoring growing concern among Hong Kong's legal elite with how Beijing has handled affairs in the special administrative region of Communist Party-ru ...More
EJ Insight2016-11-09
A former banker has been sentenced to life in prison for the murders of two Indonesian women in his Hong Kong luxury flat. Rurik Jutting was unanimously convicted by a High Court jury for the 2014 mur ...More
EJ Insight2016-11-08
The Philippine Supreme Court cleared the way for a hero's burial for former dictator Ferdinand Marcos, an issue that has divided the nation since his death in 1989. Voting 9-5, the Supreme Court on Tu ...More
EJ Insight2016-11-08
... ng's High Court was deliberating a judicial challenge pertaining to just such an issue. Now, with the Basic Law interpretation, the High Court has been preempted and its hands are tied. It's completel ...More
EJ Insight2016-11-08
... that the Court of Final Appeal has ruled on are exempted for the sake of the stability of the legal system. That could mean that six elected legislators, including those considered to have completed ...More
EJ Insight2016-11-08
The British government is preparing legislation to trigger the procedure to leave the European Union. This comes as Prime Minister Theresa May expressed confidence in overturning a court decision that ...More
EJ Insight2016-11-08
... s highest court to protest the move before holding an hours-long standoff with police outside China’s Liaison Office. The NPC Standing Committee said on Saturday that the legal interpretation was both ...More
EJ Insight2016-11-07
... the High Court in the very same case it is now considering; the court is obliged to follow the NPC ruling. The NPC is making the interpretation on its own; neither the Hong Kong government nor its co ...More
EJ Insight2016-11-07
... me amid a court battle over whether a pair of localist activists who were elected to the city’s legislature in September could take their seats after insulting China in their oaths of office. The Basi ...More
EJ Insight2016-11-07
... ng's High Court has heard a judicial review. The judicial review relates to a challenge by Chief Executive Leung Chun-ying against a decision by Legco President Andrew Leung to allow the duo to take t ...More
EJ Insight2016-11-04
... the High Court for a summary judgment on Thursday, saying the man, who is an online fortune teller by trade, cheated her, the Hong Kong Economic Journal reports. According to her complaint, Chu met t ...More
EJ Insight2016-11-04
