Reviewed by Wichuda Atthamethakon, LL.M., Thai Bar Licence 3149/2556, for ThaiLawOnline, a Thai law firm acting for foreigners since 2006.
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This dataset lists every Thai Supreme Court decision page in our library: 461 decisions from B.E. 2489 to 2569 (1946 to 2026). Each row gives the decision number, the year, the sections of the code the decision applies, the subject area and the address of the page on this site.
Each page it points to sets out the facts, what the court held, the court’s own words in Thai and the full Thai judgment from the Supreme Court’s published record. The list grows as we publish new decision pages; the library updates page lists each addition by week.
Table of Contents
What the file contains
One row per decision, comma separated, UTF-8. The first row holds the column names.
| Column | What it holds |
|---|---|
decision_number | The decision number as the court gives it, number/B.E. year, for example 5457/2560. |
year_be | Year of the decision in the Buddhist Era. |
year_ce | The same year in the Common Era. |
primary_code | The code the page is filed under: CCC (Civil and Commercial Code), PC (Penal Code), CPC (Civil Procedure Code) or LC (Land Code). |
sections_cited | The sections the decision applies that our page covers, separated by semicolons, for example CCC 1599; CCC 1629. |
topic | The subject area the page sits in on the site. |
topic_tags | The subject area plus our practice area tags, in lower case, separated by semicolons. |
title_en | Our English title for the decision page. |
url | The decision page on thailawonline.com, with the facts, the holding and the full Thai judgment. |
date_added | The date the page was published on the site. |
Decisions by subject
| Subject | Decisions |
|---|---|
| Family law | 129 |
| Property law | 97 |
| Succession and wills | 71 |
| Contracts and leases | 59 |
| Offences against life and body | 30 |
| Obligations and torts | 22 |
| General principles | 20 |
| Property offences and fraud | 18 |
| Criminal liability and defences | 12 |
| Offences against the state and officials | 1 |
| Forgery, documents and currency | 1 |
| Sexual offences and liberty | 1 |
Licence and how to cite it
The dataset is published under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International licence (CC BY 4.0). You may copy, adapt and reuse it, including commercially, if you credit ThaiLawOnline and link to this page.
Suggested citation: ThaiLawOnline, Thai Supreme Court decisions dataset, 8 November 2026, https://www.thailawonline.com/datasets/thai-supreme-court-decisions/.
Limits of the data
The file covers the decisions we have written up, not every decision the Supreme Court has given. The sections listed are the ones the decision applies and our page covers; a judgment can mention other sections in passing. For how often the Supreme Court cites each section across the whole body of its decisions, see how we count Supreme Court citations and what 83,652 Supreme Court judgments actually cite.
A Supreme Court decision binds the parties to that case. Lower courts follow the Supreme Court’s reasoning in practice, but each case turns on its own facts and evidence. The decisions involving foreign parties are collected in Foreigners in Thai Courts.
Frequently asked questions
Can I use this dataset in my own research or product?
Yes. The CC BY 4.0 licence allows any use, including commercial use, provided you credit ThaiLawOnline and link to this page.
Does the file include the text of the judgments?
No. It holds the decision number, the year, the sections, the subject and the page address. The full Thai judgment and our English summary are on each decision page.
How often is the file updated?
We regenerate it from our records each time we publish new decision pages. The library updates page lists what was added each week.
Where do the decisions come from?
From the Supreme Court’s published judgments. Each decision page gives the source of its Thai text.
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