District Court

Carson Yeung wins delay of money laundering trial

28 Nov 2012

Carson Yeung, owner of the English soccer club Birmingham City, has been given four more months to prepare his defence on money laundering charges.

District Court judge will reconsider his verdict in TVB bribery case

22 Nov 2012

The bribery case against former TVB general manager Stephen Chan Chi-wan and his former assistant has been sent back to the District Court judge who acquitted them after prosecutors won an appeal...

VST chairman found guilty of rigging share price

23 Oct 2012

Hong Kong-listed VST Holdings chairman Li Jialin was yesterday convicted in the District Court of manipulating the price of his company's shares.

David Li's cousin jailed for five years for HK$10m scam

9 Oct 2012

A cousin of Bank of East Asia chairman David Li Kwok-po was jailed for five years and two months yesterday for scheming to get a former girlfriend and her mother to pump millions of dollars into a...

Bankrupt driver jailed over death of worker

8 Aug 2012

A bankrupt businesswoman has been jailed for three years for dangerous driving causing death after a trial in which video footage from a taxi at the scene of an accident showed she had lied to...

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Versions differ on deletion of files

Gavin Shiu, a senior Department of Justice prosecutor, and his secretary yesterday gave seemingly conflicting testimony when asked in court yesterday about the deletion of files related to a fraud...

Prosecutor's secretary breaks silence on missing files

A secretary in the Department of Justice made a U-turn in a legal case yesterday, co-operating with police after initially refusing to speak to investigators, the District Court heard.

Man accused of pimping Filipino

A Polytechnic University researcher is accused of recruiting a Filipino man to come to Hong Kong to work as a prostitute and of living off his earnings.

Tycoon jailed for lewd photos

A gay businessman who tricked male models into taking photos in G-strings and threatened to publicise the embarrassing pictures was called 'despicable' yesterday, as a judge sentenced him to 17...

Pegasus school boss jailed for conning parent

A disgraced former school supervisor, found to have conned a parent into granting HK$200,000 to help fund a merger that later failed, has been sent to jail for 15 months.

School boss faces spell in jail for conning parent

A disgraced former school supervisor was convicted yesterday of conning a parent into granting HK$200,000 to help fund a merger with an international school that never took place.