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Court rules that fine was illegal entrapment

Metro | Courts
2009-11-19

A WHITE-COLLAR worker is celebrating after winning a lawsuit accusing Minhang District of using entrapment to catch illegal cabbies yesterday. The district court ruled that the traffic law enforcement team should...

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Mom: More for damaged son

Metro | Courts
2009-11-19

IN the name of her blind and mentally retarded son with cerebral palsy, a mother has appealed a local district court's verdict that Shanghai Children's Hospital under Fudan University should pay some 160,000 yuan...

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Woman compensated in failed pregnancy

Metro | Courts
2009-11-19

A local privately owned medical center has been ordered to pay 10,000 yuan (US$1,465) in compensation to a woman who received in-vitro fertilization in the center but failed to have a baby because of an ectopic pregnancy. ...

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Budget inn chain suing for an apology

Metro | Courts
2009-11-18

A CHAIN of economy inns yesterday appealed a district court's rejection of its lawsuit blaming ctrip.com, China's biggest tour and hotel booking Website, of tarnishing its image by spreading insults in the media. ...

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Judges rule 80,000 yuan in bump-on-subway injury

Metro | Courts
2009-11-17

AN appeals court has ordered a Metro passenger to pay nearly 80,000 yuan (US$11,713) in compensation to a 75-year-old woman because she bumped into the woman when she was getting off a crowded train, causing a head...

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Gas-theft prosecution proves city first

Metro | Courts
2009-11-14

A COUPLE yesterday received a three-year suspended jail term in a Shanghai court for stealing 83,000 yuan (US$12,157) worth of gas to run their restaurant. The Yangpu District People's Court heard the city's...

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3 years for sale of wild creatures

Metro | Courts
2009-11-13

A PET store owner has been given a suspended sentence of three years for attempting to sell endangered wild animals, Changning District People's Court said yesterday. The owner surnamed Zhao was also fined 30,000...

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Ex-con con man back to prison

Metro | Courts
2009-11-13

A veteran criminal, who defrauded a woman of about 80,000 yuan (US$11,717) by claiming the ability to shorten her son's imprisonment, was sentenced to six years in prison yesterday. It is the 11th prison sentence...

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Smuggling stint

Metro | Courts
2009-11-11

TANAKA Yutaka, general manager of the local distributor of Phiten, a popular health product, received four years in prison for smuggling, the Shanghai No. 1 Intermediate People's Court ruled yesterday. Phiten...

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'New' Porsche was fraud: court

Metro | Courts
2009-11-10

SHANGHAI Yuhong Auto Sale Co Ltd has been ordered to return a 1.04 million yuan (US$152,339) car payment to a consumer surnamed Cai and compensate him another 1.35 million yuan for sale fraud. Minhang District...

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Court: Pay widow of killed john

Metro | Courts
2009-11-10

AN insurance company has been ordered to pay compensation of 400,000 yuan (US$58,582) to a widow whose husband was killed in a prostitution dispute, a court said yesterday. The Pudong New Area People's Court ruled...

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Tycoon gets 14 years in jail

Metro | Courts
2009-11-5

ZHOU Xiaodi, a former Shanghai real estate magnate, was handed a 14-year prison term yesterday for orchestrating the beating of a business partner and selling land use rights he didn't own. He was also ordered...

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Six teens jailed for robberies

Metro | Courts
2009-11-3

SIX juveniles who belonged to a violent gang have been jailed for between three years and three years and four months for robbery. Prosecutors in Luwan District said they were members of an Internet-based "Dragon...

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Crash hearing

Metro | Courts
2009-10-31

A MINHANG court yesterday began hearing the case over a fatal road car crash on June 2, which killed five people - four South Koreans and a cabbie. The court didn't announce a verdict and will hold another session.

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Knife victim wins compensation from family

Metro | Courts
2009-10-29

A MAN whose finger was sliced off by a schizophrenia patient while out shopping has won 110,000 yuan (US$16,210) compensation from the attacker's family and Shanghai First Provisions Co where the tragedy happened....