10 Nov 2025法庭線#7517
吳子樂被指2019年計劃製武器供他人襲警 被控串謀煽惑暴動等 高院申保釋被拒
Tsz Lok Ng and another man were arrested by the police’s National Security Department last month. They were accused of planning to make weapons and other items for protesters to attack police during the 2019 anti-extradition bill movement. The two men were charged with two offences, including conspiracy to incite participation in riots. Wu applied for bail at the High Court on Monday (the 10th). Wearing a grey shirt and with stubble, he appeared in court and looked in good spirits, greeting those in the public gallery before the hearing began.
After hearing submissions from both the prosecution and the defence, judge William Yiu Ho Tam refused Wu’s bail application. The case will return to court on 15 December.
吳子樂與另一男子上月被警方國安處拘捕，兩人被指與在 2019 年反修例運動時，計劃自製武器等，供示威者襲警。兩人被控串謀煽惑參與暴動等兩罪。吳周一（10 日）在高等法院申請保釋。他身穿灰色襯衣到庭應訊、留有鬚渣，精神不俗，開庭前向旁聽席打招呼。
法官譚耀豪聽罷控辯雙方陳詞後，拒絕吳的保釋申請。案件將於 12 月 15 日再訊。
7 Nov 2025法庭線#7506
七旬翁認損壞兩張選舉海報 罰款500元、賠償政府18元
A 71-year-old man damaged two Registration and Electoral Office posters in Tsing Yi on Wednesday and pleaded guilty to “criminal damage” at West Kowloon Magistrates’ Courts on Friday (the 7th). Magistrate CHAN Wai-mun fined the defendant $500 and ordered him to pay the government $18 in compensation.
71 歲男子周三在青衣損壞兩張選舉事務處海報，周五（7 日）在西九龍裁判法院承認「刑事損壞」。裁判官陳慧敏判被告罰款 500 元、向政府賠償 18 元。
7 Nov 2025法庭線#7507
鄭嘉如私人檢控前僱主《華爾街日報》 辯方申押後審訊遭拒 如期12.18開審
Hong Kong Journalists Association chairperson Cheng Ka-yu was dismissed by The Wall Street Journal (WSJ) less than a month after being elected last year, on the grounds of a “position restructuring”. Cheng believes she was dismissed because of her participation in a trade union and has brought a private prosecution against her employer on two charges related to preventing employees from participating in a trade union. The case was heard again at the Eastern Magistrates’ Courts on Friday (the 7th), when the defence entered a formal plea. Cheng pleaded not guilty and will stand trial.
The defence said it needed to replace its legal team and alleged that the prosecution was unwilling to provide information including the defendant’s conviction record and the locations of key witnesses. It said that if key witnesses were not in Hong Kong when the alleged offences took place, this would affect the court’s jurisdiction. The defence therefore applied to reschedule the trial and to deal with the admissibility of some exhibits before the trial began. The prosecution said it had no way to obtain the relevant records and argued that the information should be in the defence’s possession, maintaining that there was no basis for an adjournment. Magistrate Kow Wai-hung also questioned whether the defence was engaging in “fishing” for evidence, rejected the application to adjourn, and ruled that the trial would begin as scheduled on Dec. 18.
香港記者協會主席鄭嘉如，去年當選後不足一個月，遭《華爾街日報》（WSJ）以「職位重組」為由解僱。鄭認為自己因參與工會而遭解僱，私人檢控僱主兩項「阻止僱員參與工會」有關控罪。案件周五（7 日）在東區裁判法院再訊，辯方正式答辯，不認罪受審。
辯方指須更換律師團隊，又指控方不願提供被告定罪紀錄、關鍵證人所在地等資料，提到若關鍵證人案發時不在港，將影響法庭的司法管轄權，遂申請重新排期審訊，並於開審前先處理部分證物可否呈堂。控方則指，他們無從取得相關紀錄，反指這些資料應在辯方手中，認為沒基礎押後。裁判官高偉雄亦質疑，辯方是「試探式（fishing）」取證，拒絕押後，案件將如期在 12 月 18 日開審。
6 Nov 2025法庭線#7496
《願榮光》禁令案｜鄒幸彤申參與上訴被拒兼輸訟費 獲准延期14天提反對理由
The Department of Justice won its appeal in the application for an injunction against “Glory to Hong Kong” and was granted an interim injunction. Chow Hang-tung, who is remanded in custody in connection with the Hong Kong Alliance case, was refused permission to participate in the appeal, and her application for leave to appeal was also dismissed. Chow subsequently renewed her appeal, but the Court of Appeal refused leave and ordered her to pay about $100,000 in costs to the Department of Justice.
Chow objected to the costs order and was originally required to submit her grounds of objection by the end of October. Her side applied for an extension, which the Department of Justice opposed. High Court Master Hui Ka-ho approved a 14-day extension for her on Thursday (the 6th), and Chow’s side was also ordered to pay the costs of that day’s hearing.
律政司就《願榮光歸香港》申請禁制令案上訴成功，獲頒臨時禁制令。因支聯會案還押的鄒幸彤申請參與上訴案被拒，申上訴許可亦遭駁回。鄒幸彤再提上訴，被上訴庭拒批許可，並下令她支付律政司一方約 10 萬元訟費。
鄒反對訟費命令，原需於 10 月底之前提交反對理由，鄒一方申請延期，律政司反對。高院聆案官許家灝周四（6 日）批准讓她延期 14 天，鄒一方另須支付是日聆訊訟費。
6 Nov 2025法庭線#7497
林卓廷被控立會阻陳恒鑌、周浩鼎 獲裁無罪 官稱不能依賴陳與周證供
During the Legislative Council’s 2019 consideration of the bill to amend the Fugitive Offenders Ordinance, Lam Cheuk-ting was accused of approaching Abraham Razack in an attempt to seize the microphone and repeatedly speaking, thereby obstructing Chan Heng-pan and Holden Chow in the performance of their duties as legislators. After trial, he was acquitted by Magistrate Cheng Nim-chi on Thursday (6th). After the verdict, Lam shouted, “Thank you, Your Honour.”
The magistrate said Chan and Chow had been some distance from Razack and Lam. Although Chan and Chow had tried their best to recall what happened, the situation was chaotic, and their positions differed from Lam’s. They had subjectively believed that Lam approached in order to seize the microphone and had concluded that he was harassing them. Their evidence therefore could not be relied on.
The magistrate also said Lam testified that he had approached Razack to greet him, while Razack testified that Lam had indeed asked him, “Are you OK?” Razack also did not feel that Lam had used force when touching him. The magistrate considered that the accounts of the two men might be true, but dismissed Lam’s application for legal costs. The prosecution disclosed that police had called Razack’s office, where a staff member said Razack would not give a statement, “flatly saying that he was unwilling to testify.”
立法會 2019 年審議《逃犯條例》修訂法案，林卓廷被指接近石禮謙企圖搶咪並不斷說話，繼而妨礙陳恒鑌、周浩鼎執行議員職務。他經審訊後，周四（6 日）獲裁判官鄭念慈裁定無罪。宣判後，林卓廷高聲稱「感謝法官閣下」。
官指，陳恒鑌、周浩鼎身處位置與石禮謙、林卓廷有距離。儘管陳、周已盡量回想，惟情況混亂，加上兩人立場和林有別，涉主觀認為林接近為搶咪、認定林騷擾，故不能依賴兩人證供。
官又說，林卓廷供稱上前為問候石，而石亦供稱林確有問他「係咪 OK？」，亦感受不到林觸碰時用力，認為兩人說法可能為真，惟駁回林的訟費申請。控方透露，警方曾致電石禮謙辦事處，職員稱石不會給口供，「直情係話不願作供」。
5 Nov 2025集誌社#7488
支聯會案｜鄒幸彤申撤控被駁回 國際特赦組織：紀念六四從來不是犯罪
The disbanded Hong Kong Alliance in Support of Patriotic Democratic Movements of China, along with former chair Lee Cheuk-yan, former vice-chair Albert Ho Chun-yan and Chow Hang-tung, were charged with incitement to subversion of state power. Chow’s application on the 3rd to quash the indictment was rejected. Amnesty International Hong Kong Overseas Branch issued a statement stressing that “commemorating June 4 is not a crime” and calling on the Hong Kong government to immediately release all those arrested for exercising their freedom of expression.
已解散的支聯會，及前主席李卓人、前副主席何俊仁和鄒幸彤，被控「煽動顛覆國家政權」罪，鄒幸彤日前（3日）申請「撤銷公訴書」被拒。國際特赦組織香港海外分會發聲明，強調「紀念六四不是犯罪」，要求港府立即釋放所有因行使表達自由而被捕人士。
5 Nov 2025集誌社#7489
JPEX 案｜16 人被控 據報包括林作 警首引打洗錢及恐怖分子例欺詐投資虛擬資產罪起訴
In the JPEX cryptocurrency fraud case, in which police arrested 80 people, police said today (the 5th), after more than two years of investigation, that 16 people had been charged and three fugitives were wanted. Police for the first time invoked the offence under the Anti-Money Laundering and Counter-Terrorist Financing Ordinance of fraudulently or recklessly inducing another person to invest in virtual assets. The charges involve 13 core members, people linked to over-the-counter exchanges or KOLs. The case will be brought before the Eastern Magistrates' Courts tomorrow morning. KOL Lam Chok was reportedly charged. It is understood that other influencers and others charged include Vivien Yi Chan, Xiang Xiang, known as the “Goddess of the Crypto World”, Zhu Gongzi and Au Cheuk-ki. The three wanted persons are Kwok Ho-lam, Cheung Chun-ching and Mok Chun-ting, an assistant to “Coin Young Master”.
JPEX 加密貨幣騙案，警方拘捕 80 人，調查逾兩年後，今天（5日） 表示，起訴當中 16 人，及通緝三名在逃人士。警方首引《打擊洗錢及恐怖分子資金籌集條例》中，「欺詐地或罔顧實情地誘使他人投資虛擬資產的罪行」，起訴當中 13 名核心成員、場外交易所相關人士或 KOL，案件明早於東區裁判法院提堂。據報 KOL 林作被控。
據悉，其他被控的網紅等，包括陳怡、有「幣界女神」之稱的湘湘、朱公子、區焯基等。被通緝三人包括郭浩麟、張駿晴、「幣少爺」助手莫浚廷。
5 Nov 2025法庭線#7490
理大突圍｜10人暴動判囚上訴得直 獲減刑2至6月 料大部分2026年獲釋
On 18 November 2019, police surrounded Hong Kong Polytechnic University. Eleven people accused of “breaking out” in the area of Cheong Wan Road were charged with rioting and sentenced to between 3 years 10 months and 6 years in prison. All 11 appealed against their sentences. Ten succeeded and had their terms reduced by 2 to 6 months; two of them failed in separate appeals against their convictions.
The appellants argued that the trial judge, Adriana Noelle Tse Ching, had set a starting point of 6 years for sentencing, which was too high. Citing the “Leung Tsz-yeung case”, in which the circumstances were similar, they argued that the starting point should have been 3 years. The judgment rejected this, saying that the protesters in this case confronted police for longer and attacked more aggressively, making the circumstances more serious than in that case. However, it agreed that one of the riot offences concerned only one day of the PolyU incident, and that the starting point should therefore be reduced slightly to 5 and a half years. It also took into account that one of the appellants, who worked as a nurse, took the risk of participating in anti-epidemic efforts in 2020, and exercised discretion to reduce the sentence by 2 months.
According to statistics compiled by The Witness, assuming that all 11 behave well in prison and receive the full one-third remission, two are expected to be released this year, seven next year, and the remaining two in 2028.
2019 年 11 月 18 日，警方圍堵理工大學，11 人被指在暢運道一帶「突圍而出」、被控暴動，判囚 3 年 10 月至 6 年。11 人就刑期提上訴，當中 10 人上訴得直，獲減刑 2 至 6 個月；其中兩人就定罪提上訴則失敗。
上訴方爭議，原審法官謝沈智慧以 6 年為量刑起點屬過高，參考背景相同的「梁子揚案」，應以 3 年為起點。判詞反駁，本案示威者與警方對峙時間更長、攻擊更激進，情節較該案嚴重。惟同意其中一項暴動罪，只針對理大事件其中一日，量刑起點應略為下調至 5 年半，另考慮其中一名任職護士的上訴人，於 2020 年冒險參與抗疫，酌情減刑 2 個月。
據《法庭線》統計，假設案中 11 人在獄中行為良好，獲全數三分一減刑，預料兩人於今年內獲釋，7 人明年獲釋，其餘兩人則於 2028 年獲釋。
4 Nov 2025法庭線#7485
獨立黨案被告認串謀罪未獲全數減刑 擬爭議刑罰分級不適用 申終極上訴被拒
The Portuguese man Wong Kin Chung, described as the chairman of the Hong Kong Independence Party, pleaded guilty to conspiracy to incite secession. He was sentenced to five years in prison after not receiving the full guilty-plea reduction because of the minimum sentence under the National Security Law. He applied to the Court of Final Appeal for leave to bring a final appeal, intending to argue that the sentencing tiers did not apply to conspiracy offences.
The Court of Final Appeal appeal committee, comprising Permanent Judges Lee Yee, Fok Siu-kong and Lam Man-hon, rejected the application on Monday (the 3rd), saying there were no reasonable grounds for granting leave to appeal. In other words, Wong can no longer challenge the Court of Appeal’s decision through an appeal.
被指為「香港獨立黨」主席的葡籍男子黃煡聰，承認「串謀煽動分裂國家」罪，因《國安法》刑期下限未獲全數認罪減刑，判囚 5 年。他向終審法院申請終極上訴許可，擬爭議刑罰分級不適用於串謀罪。
由常任法官李義、霍兆剛及林文瀚組成的終院上訴委員會，周一（3 日）拒絕申請，指案件無合理給予上訴許可的理由。換言之，黃無法再透過上訴挑戰上訴庭決定。
3 Nov 2025法庭線#7481
支聯會被指煽顛案 鄒幸彤申請撤銷公訴書失敗 案件明年一月開審
The case in which the Hong Kong Alliance in Support of Patriotic Democratic Movements of China and its former chairperson and vice-chairpersons Lee Cheuk-yan, Albert Ho and Chow Hang-tung are charged with “incitement to subvert state power” was heard on Monday (the 3rd) at the West Kowloon Magistrates’ Courts, sitting temporarily as the High Court, on Chow’s application to quash the indictment. Three designated judges dismissed the application the same day and adjourned the handing down of their judgment until the end of next January. The trial will begin as scheduled on 22 January.
Chow argued that the prosecution had not specified what “illegal means” the Alliance was alleged to have used to subvert the state, making it difficult to mount a defence. The judge cited the prosecution’s position that the relevant definition covered acts intended to “end the Chinese Communist Party’s leadership”, and that any means adopted for this purpose would be unconstitutional and unlawful. Chow questioned whether this basis was too broad and unfair, while the judge said the defence could argue that it had not advocated overthrowing the regime, adding: “I can’t see what difficulty there is in the defence.”
The judge also disclosed that, in its opening statement, the prosecution alleged that the Alliance had “used negative content targeting the country in the name of so-called democracy or the June Fourth incident to advocate or publicise the organisation and its assertions”. This included “ending one-party rule”, one of the Alliance’s “five-point programme”; the prosecution said the programme “necessarily” involved using unconstitutional and illegal means to subvert the regime.
支聯會及其前正副主席李卓人、何俊仁、鄒幸彤被控「煽動顛覆國家政權」案，周一（3 日）在西九龍裁判法院（暫代高院）處理鄒的撤銷公訴書申請，3 名指定法官即日駁回，押後在明年一月底頒判詞，案件如期 1 月 22 日開審。
鄒爭議控方沒指明支聯會涉煽動以何種「非法手段」顛覆，難以答辯。官引控方立場，指其定義為旨在「結束中共領導的行為」，而出於此目的的任何手段均屬違憲、違法。鄒質疑基礎過闊、不公，官則指辯方循沒鼓吹推翻抗辯，「睇唔到辯護裡面有咩困難喎」。
官亦透露，控方在開案陳詞指控支聯會「以所謂民主或六四事件之名，配合針對國家的負面內容，來鼓吹或宣傳支聯會的組織和主張」，當中包括「五大綱領」之中的「結束一黨專政」，指該綱領「必然」涉以違憲的非法手段顛覆政權。
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