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
... the High Court has ruled on his judicial review application against Legco president Andrew Leung Kwan-yuen's decision to allow the two young lawmakers to retake their oaths, and you can tell Leung wo ...More
EJ Insight2016-11-04
A British court has ruled that the government needs parliamentary approval to start the process of leaving the European Union. The ruling potentially delays Prime Minister Theresa May's Brexit plans, ...More
EJ Insight2016-11-04
... the High Court having just started a hearing of a judicial review filed by CY against the original decision to allow the duo to take their oaths in the first instance. At the same time, reports said ...More
EJ Insight2016-11-03
The government has not asked Beijing to interpret the Basic Law in connection with the oath-taking controversy involving two localist lawmakers-elect. This emerged on Thursday at the High Court, where ...More
EJ Insight2016-11-03
... the High Court to decide whether they are entitled to a second chance, the Hong Kong Economic Journal reports. A hearing on the issue is set to begin on Thursday. The Legco chief had earlier ruled th ...More
EJ Insight2016-11-03
... rought to court on Monday. Netizens could not help but feel disgusted by the incident. Some said there must be a toilet nearby and that they should have gone there instead. Others linked the pair to s ...More
EJ Insight2016-11-02
... the High Court is scheduled to hear the petition. Again, Leung told the media that the antics of the pro-independence Youngspirations pair had caused a "very bad effect" but did not say what he expec ...More
EJ Insight2016-11-02
