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Non-Permanent Judge of the Hong Kong Court of Final Appeal (CFA) William Gummow has died aged 83. The Australian judge had served on the city’s apex court since 2013. Born in 1942, Gummow practised for ten years as a solicitor before being called to the New South Wales Bar in 1976. In 1986, he
Macau was to start its first national security trial behind closed doors on Wednesday, in a case against a former pro-democracy lawmaker charged with subversion. The Chinese casino hub expanded the scope of national security laws in May 2023, and a new bill passed this year allows judges to hear nat
Three activists who once organised annual vigils to mark the 1989 Tiananmen crackdown crackdown have been sentenced up to seven years and three months in prison. Appearing before a panel of designated judges at the West Kowloon Law Courts Building on Friday, Chow Hang-tung, Lee Cheuk-yan, and Albert
Hong Kong’s District Court has sentenced two men with autism to up to three years and two months in prison for their involvement in a pro-independence group seeking to separate the city from Chinese sovereignty. District Judge Ernest Lin Kam-hung on Thursday found that courier Chan Tai-sum, 27, and
Hong Kong’s appeals court has ruled against the government in a legal challenge connected with plans to build public housing on a golf course in Fanling. The Court of Appeal handed down the verdict on Monday, upholding a lower court’s earlier judgement. In 2024, a judge sided with the Ho
A moving services manager has been sentenced to 3½ years in prison for molesting his girlfriend’s 11-year-old daughter at home and filming and photographing the assaults, with a Hong Kong judge imposing a heavier penalty to reflect the impact on the vulnerable child. Deputy District Judge Ivy Chui Y