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Hong Kong is a signatory to the Hague Convention on the Civil Aspects of International Child Abduction 1980. Photo: Getty Images
Hong Kong society

Legal Tales | How the law protects when a parent abducts their child across borders

Hong Kong is a signatory to a law that enables children to be returned to their habitual residence, and the local court to make a determination.

Hong Kong’s Tai Po fire tragedy

Hong Kong retiree gets 1 year in jail for seditious social media comments

Crime in Hong Kong

Lawyer faces new charges after second person accuses him of indecent assault

Mainland China

Court clears woman of submitting fake qualifications in talent scheme application

Judge says mainland Chinese defendant showed negligence but no intent to defraud, noting her visa agent may have submitted false details.

Xu Lina, 36, leaves Sha Tin Court after being cleared of forging her qualifications on a Top Talent Pass Scheme visa application. Photo: Eugene Lee
Mental health

Mentally ill son who killed mother detained indefinitely at psychiatric hospital

Hong Kong court says sentence for Wong Chun-kit, who killed mother amid delusion she was ‘monster lizard’, is ‘most appropriate’ for public safety and his welfare.

Hong Kong society

Time to act on stalled proposal toughening child abuse penalties, lawmakers say

SCMP check finds that only one of 13 cases of serious child abuse offences over more than two decades resulted in close to maximum 10-year sentence.

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Hong Kong

Hong Kong bookstore owner fined HK$32,000 for using shop as unregistered school

Court rejects Pong Yat-ming’s defence that Spanish course held at his shop, Book Punch, was merely an ‘interest class’.

Pong Yat-ming opened Book Punch in Sham Shui Po in 2020. Photo: K. Y. Cheng
Hong Kong’s Tai Po fire tragedy

Cook jailed for 11 months over selling account used to dupe Tai Po fire donors

Cham Shu-shing also fined HK$4,500 for selling Alipay digital wallet to scammers, knowing it would be used for illegal purposes.

Jimmy Lai trial

Court to hold hearing in July on confiscating Jimmy Lai’s properties

Sixty-minute hearing set for July 8 to handle confiscation order that authorities say will ‘cut off funding chains’ for national security offences.

Jimmy Lai

Opinion | Debate over Jimmy Lai’s sentencing should steer clear of geopolitics

Courts can be criticised; judgments can be contested. But legal analysis should not be influenced by geopolitical rivalry.

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Chief Superintendent of the Hong Kong police for national security Steve Li Kwai-wah speaks to media at the West Kowloon Magistrates’ Courts in Hong Kong on February 9 after Jimmy Lai Chee-ying was sentenced to 20 years in jail. Photo: EPA
Hong Kong

Legal Tales | The ‘split’ legal profession in Hong Kong

Why does Hong Kong have both barristers and solicitors?

Barristers specialise in court work and legal advice relating to litigation. Photo: Yik Yeung-man
ESF - English Schools Foundation

13 parents, middleman get up to 14 months in jail for bribing ESF employee

‘It is understandable to have high expectations for their children. But the premise is that [parents] have to obey the law,’ judge says.

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Crime in Hong Kong

Hong Kong man gets 22 months in jail for pregnant woman’s death in truck accident

Leung Chi-wa, 61, found guilty of dangerous driving causing death after judge rejects claims he suffered momentary lapse of judgment.

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Hong Kong national security law

Opinion | Let’s be clear: national security law update is not a power grab

The amendments clarify ambiguities, close loopholes and are neither more intrusive nor less lawful than comparable legislation elsewhere.

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Police officers stand guard outside the Court of Appeal on February 23 as it delivers its verdict on 12 appeals related to the unofficial primary election held in Hong Kong in July 2020. Photo: Dickson Lee
Hong Kong’s Tai Po fire tragedy

Editorial | Time to confront the uncomfortable truths about the Tai Po fire

Only by facing the problems head on and reforming systems can we truly do justice to the victims and survivors and protect public safety.

Legal representatives queue up to enter City Gallery for the afternoon session of the first day of the public inquiry hearing of the deadly fire of Wang Fuk Court in Tai Po, Hong Kong, on March 19. Photo: Elson Li
Hong Kong

10 defendants remanded in custody in JPEX cryptocurrency fraud case

Hong Kong magistrate rejects bail requests from four men and six women.

Jimmy Lai

Charge dropped against ex-Apple Daily executive who turned prosecution witness

Former chief financial officer Royston Chow secured immunity from prosecution in exchange for his testimony against Jimmy Lai in fraud case.

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Crime in Hong Kong

CityU professor gets 4½ months in prison for offering HK$1,000 bribe to agent

Magistrate rejects argument that academic Du Du’s actions to get out of rental agreement rooted in ‘cultural differences’.

CityU previously declined to comment on the case. Photo: Felix Wong
Hong Kong

Leniency shown to Hong Kong immigration worker who repeatedly assaulted wife and son

Magistrate accepts one-year probation recommendation, citing risk of job and pension loss, after initially imposing community service sentence.

Hong Kong national security law

Editorial | Rule changes will help Hong Kong better combat national security threats

The amendments, such as the one related to providing passwords for electronic devices, bring the city in line with other parts of the world that have such requirements.

Mainland China

Jealous Hongkonger who threatened to burn 6 media newsrooms jailed for 1 year

Tse Chun-pan, 43, set up website for merchandise themed around 2019 protests and demanded media publish screenshots of seditious content in bid to frame rival.

West Kowloon Law Courts. Photo: Jelly Tse
Mainland China

Swedish businessman in Hong Kong loses appeal in domestic helper rape case

Court of Appeal upholds conviction and sends Patrik Tobias Ekstrom, sentenced to seven years in prison for raping helper in 2022, back to jail.

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Patrik Tobias Ekstrom at the High Court in Admiralty in August 2024. Photo: Jonathan Wong
Hong Kong national security law

Hong Kong activist on trial for subversion calls one-party rule ‘regression’

Chow Hang-tung says advocating end to one-party rule not same as seeking to oust party, while judge challenges her characterisation of 1989 crackdown.

Hong Kong national security law

Hong Kong police file fresh terrorism charge against pair over alleged bomb plot

Charges upgraded against two men accused of plotting to use explosives to coerce authorities or intimidate the public in pursuit of a political agenda.

Hong Kong

Ex-assistant principal given 36-month bind-over for stealing groceries from Sogo

Hong Kong court spares Ng Ka-yun, 47, from criminal conviction after she admits to offence.

The Eastern Court building in Sai Wan Ho. Photo: Nora Tam
My Take

My Take | Mason’s legacy lies in the reputation he helped forge for Hong Kong’s final court

The death of the influential Australian jurist at the age of 100 prompts reflection on the continued value to the city of eminent justices from overseas.

Former Australian chief justice Anthony Mason, one of the first non-permanent judges to join the Hong Kong Court of Final Appeal. Photo: Handout
Hong Kong

Legal Tales | Tribute to towering jurist: how the late Sir Anthony Mason shaped Hong Kong courts

Former Australian chief justice is best known to Hong Kong people as one of the first non-permanent judges for the Court of Final Appeal.

Hong Kong politics

Opinion | Here’s what an executive-led government really means in Hong Kong

The legislature and judiciary have a constitutional duty to rally behind the executive while exercising their powers independently.

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