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Hong Kong-born baby Danny’s future remains uncertain as welfare teams assess his parents’ background and living conditions Photo: Handout
Hong Kong society

Hong Kong baby Danny’s future remains unclear despite birth registration progress

Despite DNA confirmation, child remains under court-ordered care as officials review parents’ capability, history and living conditions.

Crime in Hong Kong

Hong Kong tutor behind failed murder plot gets 3-year jail term reduction

Hong Kong

Australian fined, given suspended jail term for dining and dashing in Hong Kong

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Hong Kong

Editorial | New international commercial court will boost Hong Kong as a legal hub

Such tribunals are rapidly growing around the world. Hong Kong cannot afford to be left behind.

The new court will form a division of the High Court. Photo: Sun Yeung
Law

Legal Tales | 12 Hangry Men – jury equity from the Old Bailey to Hong Kong

How a centuries-old court ruling gave jurors the right to acquit a defendant based on conscience alone and shaped the modern courtroom.

Hong Kong society

Sweden outlines child care policy amid registration row over infant in Hong Kong

Government explains how decision to take child away from parents is reached, shedding light on Hong Kong couple’s custody battle for daughter.

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Hong Kong society

How a couple lost 3 kids in as many countries and were arrested in Hong Kong

Authorities to take baby boy into protection after parents initially refuse DNA test for birth registration, with sisters also victims of a troubled history.

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Tsang Wai-bong (left) and Kwan Pui-sin have a troubled history. Before their arrest in Hong Kong, their first daughter died in infancy in Finland and their second was taken into care by Swedish social services. Photo: Handout
Hong Kong’s Tai Po fire tragedy

Adminstrator to ‘review’ tribunal decision on Wang Fuk Court owners’ meeting

Hop On Management Company says it will arrange extraordinary general meeting as displaced owners have requested, but does not indicate time frame.

Hong Kong’s Tai Po fire tragedy

Hong Kong tribunal rejects request to postpone Wang Fuk Court owners’ meeting

Lands Tribunal says it lacks power to extend statutory deadlines, urges government-appointed administrator to convene meeting immediately.

Hong Kong

Defunct Hong Kong bakery chain fined HK$251,800 over unpaid wages

Taipan Bread & Cakes, Taipan Restaurant and parent company Vast Luck failed to pay 47 employees following closure of all outlets on June 24 last year.

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Bakery chain Taipan shut all its retail outlets in June last year. Photo: Nora Tam
Hong Kong’s Tai Po fire tragedy

Hong Kong tribunal judge questions power to postpone Wang Fuk Court owners’ meeting

Judge acknowledges challenges faced by government-appointed administrator, but stresses limits of court’s powers to extend 45-day deadline.

Hop On Management Company’s senior counsel, Hectar Pun Hei, left, urged the tribunal to consider the firm’s difficulties in verifying homeowners’ signatures and securing a venue capable of accommodating at least 1,000 people. Photo: Jonathan Wong
Hong Kong society

Hong Kong baby left without legal identity as parents refuse DNA test

Lawmakers urge action, saying baby Danny currently trapped in ‘identity vacuum’ as lack of birth registration denies access to public services.

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Hong Kong

Ex-chief of Hong Kong journalist union behind bars after losing appeal

Ronson Chan had appealed against his conviction and five-day jail sentence for obstructing a police officer in 2022.

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Hong Kong

2 footballers, bookie jailed up to 17 months in Hong Kong match-fixing scandal

Ex-Hong Kong Under-23 player Brian Fok, Luciano Silva da Silva and betting agent Waheed Mohammad undermined integrity of the sport, judge says.

Brian Fok (left) received 17 months on three counts of offering an advantage to an agent and two counts of conspiracy to cheat at gambling. Photo: Sun Yeung
Hong Kong

Veteran lawyer seeks judicial review over alleged illegal structures on his home

Barrister Alan Hoo was last year ordered to rectify alleged illegal alterations to his house within 60 days.

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Alan Hoo is disabled following a Staphylococcus aureus infection. Photo: Dickson Lee
Hong Kong

Court jails professor who took HK$40,000 bribe to admit unqualified student

Liu Hongbin accepted bribe to help mainland Chinese student secure conditional offer for place at Hong Kong University of Science and Technology.

Crime

Beautician who doxxed, blackmailed ex-lover jailed for 4 years, 4 months

Li Yanlin, 46, uploaded four YouTube videos exposing married lover’s details and demanded HK$2.6 million.

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Hong Kong

Hong Kong to set up international commercial court to tackle cross-border disputes

Secretary for Justice Paul Lam says local judges and international legal experts will preside over cases.

The international commercial court, to be set up as a division of the High Court, will complement the city’s existing international arbitration and mediation services. Photo: Sun Yeung
Hong Kong

Legal Tales | The evolution of Hong Kong’s independent common law

A recent Court of Final Appeal ruling confirms that the city’s common law is its very own.

Crime in Hong Kong

Hong Kong private tutor jailed for 4½ years over repeatedly molesting boy

Ng Tin-yu continued to commit obscene acts at boy’s residence until camera in child’s bedroom captured one of the incidents.

Crime in Hong Kong

Man gets 9 years’ jail for attempted rape after following victim from wet market

Former dock worker Leung Kam-wah followed mother with baby in pram and held cutter to her back as she opened flat door.

A 67-year-old man has been jailed for nine years for breaking into a woman's flat at Lai King Estate and assaulting her two years ago. Photo: Edmond So
Crime in Hong Kong

Suspended policeman faces 7 years in jail over red paint vandalism, data access

Leung Lung-kwan, 41, appears in court on nine charges after allegedly accessing criminal intelligence and investigation records without authorisation.

A Hong Kong policeman accused of throwing red paint at the front door of a residential flat and accessing the force’s internal systems without authorisation could face up to seven years in prison. Photo: Eugene Lee
Mainland China

Mainland mother who offered bribe for son’s Hong Kong school place spared jail

Cai Yu, 39, told court she ‘underestimated’ consequences of offering HK$10,000 bribe to assistant principal of CMA Choi Cheung Kok Secondary School.

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Hong Kong police

Police officer gets 2½ years’ jail for taking HK$1.1 million in cash, gifts

In his mitigation letter, Ho Siu-tung admits to becoming ‘private servant’ of businessman to keep up affluent lifestyle beyond his means.

Crime in Hong Kong

Hong Kong producer Raymond Wong found guilty of insider trading

Court hears Wong advised sister to buy shares in company in which he held controlling stake, netting her more than HK$1 million in profit.

Filmmaker Raymond Wong arrives at Eastern Court. Photo: Sun Yeung
Crime in Hong Kong

Hong Kong’s ICAC charges woman over alleged HK$10,000 bribe in custody case

Wen Congmei, 62, accused of offering cash to Legal Aid Department clerk in bid to influence grandson’s custody case.

Hong Kong’s anti-corruption watchdog has charged a 62-year-old woman after she allegedly offered a bribe to a Legal Aid Department clerk. Photo: Jelly Tse
Law

Editorial | Hong Kong welcomes class of new senior counsel

The appointment ceremony highlighted how, despite technological advances, the oral delivery of arguments lies at the heart of the system.

Hong Kong's national security law

Labourer remanded after admitting he tossed seditious messages from flat

Raymond Wong to be sentenced next month over calling for liberation of Hong Kong and death of judges, police and mainland Chinese.

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