Hong Kong’s top court has ruled that decades-old prohibitions on the unlicensed carriage of passengers for hire or reward must cover Uber drivers because their conduct was “well within the mischief” targeted by the law.
The Court of Final Appeal on Wednesday explained why its panel of five judges had unanimously dismissed the unprecedented challenge mounted by 24 Uber drivers seeking to quash their 2018 convictions under the law.
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