A landmark ruling in Britain, in which the Supreme Court found that company assets held by a spouse can be handed over as part of settlement claims, is likely to affect divorce proceedings in Hong...
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Ho Loy, a member of the Save Lung Mei Alliance, filed a notice with the High Court seeking a judicial review of the government's decision to allow the building of the Lung Mei beach on the grounds...
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US army psychiatrist Major Nidal Hasan cannot argue at trial that he was defending the Afghan Taliban when he went on a 2009 shooting rampage in Texas that killed 13 soldiers, a military judge has...
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Zervos made a public commitment to show compassion for first-time offenders last year and he said the approach also applied to indecent assault cases. He urged victims not to view light sentences...
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Shannon Guess Richardson, 35, appeared in court after being charged with mailing a threatening communication to the president. She faces up to 10 years in prison if convicted.
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Two former senior officials of China North East Petroleum have been charged with misappropriation of part of the proceeds of the firm's share sales. The money was allegedly used by their relatives...
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IMF chief Christine Lagarde avoided immediate charges but was named an "assisted witness" after French prosecutors questioned her for two days over a state payout to a disgraced tycoon when she...
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The driver of a double-decker bus that ploughed into a taxi last year, killing the driver and both his passengers, will not face prosecution. The passengers were chefs working for celebrity TV...
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An unmarried mother accused of sedating her five-year-old son before handing him to a paedophile who sexually abused the boy in exchange for cash has denied the allegation.
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The two men who assaulted a South China Morning Post photographer when she took pictures of parallel-goods traders in Sheung Shui were yesterday given community service sentences for their "...
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Two months after he died in a bloody murder-suicide, the estate of "King of Fruits" Peng Chi-hui is being sued for HK$18.8 million in loan repayments.
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An anaesthetist told an inquest yesterday that he disagreed with a decision to remove a breathing tube immediately after an eight-hour operation on a 13-year-old boy who later died. It was one of...
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