Legal Procedure

New legal bid by trio in deleted files case

10 Oct 2012

Three defendants, who failed to thwart fraud prosecutions against them on the grounds that files relating to their trial were deleted by a senior prosecutor, have renewed their efforts for a...

Cameras have a place in court

4 Jun 2012

In keeping with the maxim that 'justice must be done and must be seen to be done' our courts are open to all - for free. But very few Hong Kong people exercise their right to go to court just to...

Magistrate to decide on Tony Chan's challenge

18 May 2012

Eastern Court will decide on Monday whether it will continue hearing self-styled fung shui master Tony Chan Chun-chuen's application to halt criminal proceedings against him.

Ex-policeman gets life in jail for murdering 'lover'

4 May 2012

A former policeman turned cab driver was sentenced to life in prison yesterday for murdering a 25-year-old woman he had been 'obsessed' with.

I resolved Leung issue: John Tsang

18 Mar 2012

Finance secretary John Tsang Chun-wah told a Legislative Council select committee hearing yesterday he resolved the issue of chief executive candidate Leung Chun-ying's conflict of interest over...

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New questions over arts hub contest jury

Questions about the government's handling of controversy over a 2002 design contest for the West Kowloon arts hub have multiplied with the discovery that a foreign member of the judging panel...

Confidence shaken by hub revelations

When details of a decade-old project design competition were dug up and turned into 'dark matter' to be used against a front runner in the chief executive race, few expected the issue to become a...

Foster's design thrown out before it won

The winning canopy design submitted by British architect Norman Foster in a 2001 competition for the West Kowloon arts and cultural hub was among 12 designs disqualified for technical reasons....

Court to review police actions in gay rally

A gay-rights demonstrator received court permission yesterday to proceed with a judicial challenge to police actions during a rally against homophobia in May last year.

Killer driver's appeal rejected

A 24-year-old US student who accidentally killed a taxi driver during a drunken road altercation cannot appeal against his manslaughter conviction, three appeal court judges ruled yesterday.

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Government court costs at 10-year high of HK$64.3m

The government has spent HK$64.3 million in criminal court costs this year - a 10-year high which Secretary for Justice Wong Yan-lung attributed to the long-running 'milkshake murder' trial and a...