Hong Kong Judge Approves Contempt Of Court Proceedings Against Joshua

Dec 7, 2017 High Court allows contempt of court actions against 20 Occupy activists over Mong Kok clearance to continue There are not many options a sentencing court can impose in relation to...

Apr 17, 2023 HONG KONG Hong Kong activist Joshua Wong was sentenced Monday to three months in prison for breaching court bans on disclosing personal information about a police officer who injured...

Nov 23, 2020 Hong Kong democracy activist Joshua Wong and two fellow campaigners are facing the prospect of prison after pleading guilty to unlawful assembly during last year's mass protests. Mr Wong,...

Jan 17, 2018 Hong Kong Occupy activist Joshua Wong denied bail after being sentenced to three months jail for contempt of court | South China Morning Post. Fellow activist Raphael Wong jailed...

The Government of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region . commencing such proceedings and, if not, whether the SJ is required to be consulted before the s ame. 7. The questions for determination by the CFA are: - (1) Whether the SJ has the exclusive right to bring criminal contempt proceedings against an alleged contemnor ( Question 1

Oct 13, 2017 Jailed Hong Kong activist Joshua Wong, and 19 other activists, were all found guilty of contempt for obstructing the clearance of a major encampment during the city's 2014 mass Umbrella rallies. Wong, who was in court Friday on his 21st birthday, had already pleaded guilty to the charge, but the judge did not set a date for sentencing.

A prominent student leader of the 2014 Hong Kong democracy movement has been jailed after the high court ruled that he should serve three months on a contempt charge.

Back Hong Kong judge approves contempt of court proceedings against Joshua Wong and three other men involved in 2019 social unrest

Appeals. In Hong Kong, an appeal against a decision of the Court of First Instance of the High Court is to be made to the Court of Appeal and the relevant procedural rules are in Order 59 of the Rules of the High Court (Cap. 4 sub. leg.).A party who wishes to appeal has to lodge a notice of appeal setting out the grounds of appeal within 28 days after the date of the sealing of the order of ...

Oct 13, 2017 Lester Shum and Demosistos Joshua Wong are among 20 democracy activists found guilty of criminal contempt after failing to comply with an injunction to clear the Mong Kok Occupy protest site...

establishment of the Law Reform Commission of Hong Kong and appointed it to report on such of the laws of Hong Kong as might be referred to it for consideration by the Attorney General and the Chief Justice. 1.2 On 14 August 1981 they referred the following question to the Law Reform Commission for consideration - "Laws of Contempt of Court :

Feb 27, 2016 The High Court might use its discretion to allow contempt of court actions brought against 20 Occupy activists including student leaders Joshua Wong Chi-fung and Lester Shum to...

Feb 7, 2018 The consolidated response of the DoJ to the three questions raised by the Hon Wong Ting-kwong concerning arrests and prosecutions for suspected contempt of court is as follows: Contempt of court covers a wide range of conducts and offences, and government LEAs and the DoJ have not kept a set of figures covering all relevant cases.

Feb 6, 2018 Hong Kong CNN . Hong Kong pro-democracy activist Joshua Wong scored a substantial legal victory Tuesday, as the citys top court threw out the prison sentences handed to him and two other ...

Oct 13, 2017 Hong Kong: Jailed Hong Kong activist Joshua Wong spent his 21st birthday in court Friday where he was found guilty of contempt for obstructing the clearance of a major encampment...

Nov 19, 2021 Respect for court rulings urged. November 19, 2021. Secretary for Justice Teresa Cheng. Over the past year, there have been harassments and intimidations against judges and judicial officers on various occasions. Whilst it may not be appropriate to speculate at this stage whether these acts are directly related to the cases heard before them ...

Nov 13, 2023 A pro-Beijing lawyer has petitioned Hong Kongs High Court to allow all people to be able to arrest five US lawmakers who have sought to impose sanctions on Hong Kong judges and...

21 May, 2020. The Hong Kong Court of First Instance has granted a so-called Hadkinson order, adjourning an application to resist enforcement of CIETAC arbitral awards, on the basis of the applicants poor conduct in earlier stages of the proceedings.

Jun 2, 2022 Judge Andrew Chan handed down his judgement at the High Court on Thursday morning. Hui, who is now in Australia, was not represented in court. The democrat was accused of misleading police...

Sep 15, 2011 As noted, this appears to be the first time that custodial sentences have been handed down in Hong Kong in connection with contempt of court proceedings arising out of deliberately false Statements of Truth. In doing so, the court has sent out a strong message.

Published: 3:45pm, 13 Oct, 2017. Why you can trust SCMP. Nine Hongkongers were convicted of criminal contempt of court on Friday in the latest round of prosecutions over the 2014 Occupy...

Mar 19, 2018 The High Court, Admiralty. Photo: Catherine Lai/HKFP. Hong Kong judges might care to consider the relevant Practice Direction for English judges exercising their great power.