https://www.scmp.com/rss/522002/feed The Hong Kong High Court, a prominent governmental judicial body based in the High Court Building, 38 Queensway, Admiralty, is a superior court of record within Hong Kong’s legal system. Comprising the Court of Appeal and Court of First Instance, its primary mission is to uphold the rule of law, safeguard individual rights, and administer justice independently. It handles both original and appellate jurisdiction, hearing serious civil and criminal cases, including appeals from lower courts. The... en https://assets.i-scmp.com/static/img/icons/scmp-meta-1200x630.png https://www.scmp.com Fiona Chow Fiona Chow A Hong Kong court has sentenced a suspended policeman to six months in prison for fraudulently persuading a doctor to give him 54 days of additional sick leave during the 2019 social unrest, when he pretended to be a personal trainer who was unfit for work. Jeffrey Tam Shun-wai, 32, was convicted on Tuesday at West Kowloon Court on a count of fraud, despite denying that he had intentionally deceived surgeon Wilson Tsang Wen-chieng during medical appointments between September and October 2019 to... https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/law-and-crime/article/3338122/hong-kong-policeman-jailed-pretending-be-trainer-claiming-sick-leave-2019?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/law-and-crime/article/3338122/hong-kong-policeman-jailed-pretending-be-trainer-claiming-sick-leave-2019?utm_source=rss_feed Tue, 30 Dec 2025 06:16:05 +0000 Cui Jianchun Cui Jianchun On December 15, Jimmy Lai Chee-ying was found guilty on two charges of conspiring to collude with external forces and a charge of conspiracy to publish seditious materials by the High Court of Hong Kong. The verdict was welcomed in the city and, as expected, prompted another round of outcries from some Western countries. As Commissioner of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the People’s Republic of China in the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region, I feel obliged to set the record straight... https://www.scmp.com/opinion/hong-kong-opinion/article/3336892/west-must-face-facts-jimmy-lais-trial-and-conviction?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/opinion/hong-kong-opinion/article/3336892/west-must-face-facts-jimmy-lais-trial-and-conviction?utm_source=rss_feed Sun, 21 Dec 2025 01:30:09 +0000 Agence France-Presse Agence France-Presse Singapore’s High Court dismissed on Tuesday the first legal challenge in years to the city state’s mandatory death penalty for certain drug crimes, a blow for campaigners in a year that has seen executions peak. Human rights activists and relatives of three executed drug convicts had petitioned the court, arguing that the mandatory death penalty violates parts of Singapore’s constitution guaranteeing the right to life and equal protection under the law. They also said legislation restricts... https://www.scmp.com/news/asia/southeast-asia/article/3336657/singapore-court-dismisses-challenge-mandatory-death-penalty-drug-crimes?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/asia/southeast-asia/article/3336657/singapore-court-dismisses-challenge-mandatory-death-penalty-drug-crimes?utm_source=rss_feed Tue, 16 Dec 2025 11:10:34 +0000 Brian Wong Brian Wong A Hong Kong police officer has been found guilty of unlawfully terminating 10 criminal investigations by using forged statements as proof that the complainants had agreed to withdraw their cases. The District Court on Wednesday convicted Detective Constable Wong Yiu-chung of forgery and misconduct in public office, finding that the 34-year-old had dishonestly obtained his supervisors’ approval to close the inquiries between November 2022 and July 2023. The court rejected the defence’s argument... https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/law-and-crime/article/3335908/hong-kong-police-officer-found-guilty-forging-statements-close-10-cases?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/law-and-crime/article/3335908/hong-kong-police-officer-found-guilty-forging-statements-close-10-cases?utm_source=rss_feed Wed, 10 Dec 2025 09:27:58 +0000 Cao Li Cao Li A Hong Kong court has formally frozen an HSBC account at the heart of a high-stakes lawsuit that pits three claimants of a multibillion-dollar inheritance against the CEO of Hangzhou Wahaha Group, a beverage empire dubbed “China’s Coca-Cola”. The order will remain in force until another parallel lawsuit filed in a Hangzhou court is finished, or until a further order is passed by the Hong Kong court, according to a ruling by Deputy High Court Judge Gary CC Lam on Friday. The three plaintiffs –... https://www.scmp.com/business/china-business/article/3320465/hong-kong-court-freezes-us18-billion-hsbc-account-wahaha-inheritance-battle-unfolds?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/business/china-business/article/3320465/hong-kong-court-freezes-us18-billion-hsbc-account-wahaha-inheritance-battle-unfolds?utm_source=rss_feed Fri, 01 Aug 2025 10:19:36 +0000 Brian Wong Brian Wong A Hong Kong court has quashed a government decision to refuse hire car permits to two prospective Uber drivers seven years ago, rejecting authorities’ contentions that the move could open the floodgates for ride-hailing services and private vehicles to operate as “pseudo-taxis”. In a written judgment handed down on Thursday, the High Court found that the commissioner for transport’s dismissal of two litigants’ requests for a permit in 2018 to be based on an “impracticable, illogical and... https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/transport/article/3316820/hong-kong-court-quashes-government-decision-refuse-permits-2-uber-drivers?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/transport/article/3316820/hong-kong-court-quashes-government-decision-refuse-permits-2-uber-drivers?utm_source=rss_feed Thu, 03 Jul 2025 09:20:26 +0000