The Jury System in Hong Kong

Five people were charged with rioting and inciting riots in the civil unrest that broke out in Mongkok in 2016. The jury was being selected at the High Court today (20 February 201…

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Hong Kong's Jury System

Legal Protection to Policyholders of…

Are Hong Kong insurance policies taken out by Mainland residents entitled to legal protection in Hong Kong? This has been a question troubling Mainland residents and lawyers for a …

2020-09-25

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Legal Protection to Policyholders of Insurance

Annual vetting of Hong Kong lawyers

As of the end of February 2016, there were around 13,000 lawyers, including solicitors and barristers, in Hong Kong. 9,925 of them were solicitors with 65% of them in the private p…

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Annual vetting of Hong Kong lawyers

Relevant factors for bail applicatio…

“An Executive of Huawei has recently been arrested in Canada and is in the course of applying for bail. This article is going to discuss the factors that a common law judge will co…

2020-09-25

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Bail application bail consideration under common law

Yaoning Incident

The earlier incident whereby a Chinese defence lawyer was being framed during the course of his client’s trial by a prosecutor for soliciting prostitutes came to the attention of t…

2020-09-25

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Yaoning Incident judicial independence