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1. Court ruling threatens aged-care homes

   Posted May 15th 2003, 12:00am by Staff Reporter

   ... High Court Chow Chung-yan Welfare groups have urged the government to save hundreds of aged-care homes from closure after a court ruled that such centres could not open in buildings that had mixed residential and commercial uses. In a High Court ruling on Tuesday, it was found that such use breached contracts between owners and developers. The court dispute between ...

   http://www.scmp.com/article/415537/court-ruling-threatens-aged-care-homes
2. News - Hong Kong

   Solicitors close in on High Court role

   Posted Jan 14th 2013, 12:00am by Patsy Moy, Austin Chiu

   ... News Hong Kong High Court Solicitors Barristers Patsy Moy and Austin Chiu New rule means big savings for clients who normally have to hire barristers Experienced solicitors will be able to represent clients in the High Court as early as April, saving litigants tens of thousands of dollars as they will no longer have to hire a separate barrister. Barristers have until now enjoyed ... found in our courts will only get worse if the assessment scheme is not stringently applied. new --> aplucky1 Jan 14th 2013 7:34am should have been done decades ago what a scandal ...

   http://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/article/1127406/solicitors-close-high-court-roles
3. News - Hong Kong - COURTS

   Photographer's attackers sentenced to community work

   Posted May 14th 2013, 04:43pm by Stuart Lau

   ... News Hong Kong Courts Stuart Lau stuart.lau@scmp.com The two men who assaulted a South China Morning Post photographer when she took pictures of parallel-goods traders in Sheung Shui were ...

   http://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/article/1237613/two-sentenced-community-service-assaulting-photographer
4. News - Hong Kong - COURTS

   Nurse to pay HK$946,000 for six years of harassment

   Posted Apr 25th 2013, 12:00am by Austin Chiu

   ... News Hong Kong Courts Austin Chiu austin.chiu@scmp.com A nurse who subjected her ex-boyfriend to a six-year campaign of harassment was ordered yesterday to pay him almost HK$1 million ...

   http://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/article/1222457/nurse-pay-hk946000-six-years-harassment
5. News - Hong Kong - COURTS

   Mum told of anaesthesia risks to boy, court hears

   Posted Apr 06th 2013, 12:00am by Joyce Man

   ... Cheung Yui-ting, who died in August 2011, 18 days after the surgery at Tuen Mun Hospital. Sham told the Coroner's Court she had verbally explained the risks involved in using anaesthesia ...

   http://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/article/1207978/mum-told-anaesthesia-risks-boy-court-hears
6. News - Hong Kong - COURTS

   Higher payouts for injury claims, High Court rules in landmark judgment

   Posted Feb 08th 2013, 12:00am by Austin Chiu, Patsy Moy

   ... News Hong Kong Courts injury claims High Court higher payouts Austin Chiu and Patsy Moy Compensation rates are adjusted in judgment that's expected to push up insurance premiums Insurance premiums are expected to go up following a landmark High Court judgment yesterday that rewrites the formula for how judges calculate compensation for victims of injuries. Mr Justice Mohan ...

   http://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/article/1145513/higher-payouts-injury-claims-high-court-rules-landmark-judgment
7. Residents in fury over being told to use back entrance to flats

   Posted Oct 21st 2007, 12:00am by Liz Heron

   ... in the building and is trying to rent them out as a restaurant. Capital Vision has served the flat-owners' association with a High Court writ claiming damages for lost income from the proposed ...

   http://www.scmp.com/article/612304/residents-fury-over-being-told-use-back-entrance-flats
8. News - Hong Kong

   Whistling loudly a 'form of assault', court hears

   Posted Dec 28th 2012, 03:55pm by Austin Chiu

   ... circumstances, [emitting such sounds] constitutes assault,” Man said. Such whistling is different from normal, everyday whistling, he said. “He used great force and high frequency [pitch]. He leaned ...

   http://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/article/1114354/whistling-loudly-form-assault-court-hears
9. News - Hong Kong - COURTS

   Two prison guards found guilty of falsifying urine samples

   Posted Sep 27th 2012, 03:23pm by Simpson Cheung

   ... Tang and Leung, who were working at the Hei Ling Chau drug addiction centre when they were arrested in 2009, had earlier pleaded guilty. But the court called a special hearing to determine ...

   http://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/article/1048594/two-prison-guards-found-guilty-falsifying-urine-samples
10. Stepmother sues natural family over son's estate

    Posted Jun 12th 2012, 12:00am

    ... a natural mother and not a legal mother. Ho is now asking the High Court to grant her HK$22 million of the estate of her stepson, who died in 2001, to cover her remaining years, estimated ...

    http://beta.scmp.com/article/1003720/stepmother-sues-natural-family-over-sons-estate

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