Article 143: Correcting minor errors in a judgment
Statutory text (Thai original)
ถ้าในคำพิพากษาหรือคำสั่งใด มีข้อผิดพลาดเล็กน้อยหรือข้อผิดหลงเล็กน้อยอื่นๆ และมิได้มีการอุทธรณ์หรือฎีกาคัดค้านคำพิพากษาหรือคำสั่งนั้น เมื่อศาลที่ได้พิพากษาหรือมีคำสั่งนั้นเห็นสมควร หรือเมื่อคู่ความที่เกี่ยวข้องร้องขอ ศาลจะมีคำสั่งเพิ่มเติมแก้ไขข้อผิดพลาดหรือข้อผิดหลงเช่นว่านั้นให้ถูกก็ได้ แต่ถ้าได้มีการอุทธรณ์หรือฎีกาคัดค้านคำพิพากษาหรือคำสั่งนั้น อำนาจที่จะแก้ไขข้อผิดพลาดหรือข้อผิดหลงนั้น ย่อมอยู่แก่ศาลอุทธรณ์หรือศาลฎีกาแล้วแต่กรณี คำขอให้แก้ไขข้อผิดพลาดหรือข้อผิดหลงนั้น ให้ยื่นต่อศาลดังกล่าวแล้ว โดยกล่าวไว้ในฟ้องอุทธรณ์หรือฎีกา หรือโดยทำเป็นคำร้องส่วนหนึ่งต่างหากการทำคำสั่งเพิ่มเติมตามมาตรานี้ จะต้องไม่เป็นการกลับหรือแก้คำวินิจฉัยในคำพิพากษาหรือคำสั่งเดิมเมื่อได้ทำคำสั่งเช่นว่านั้นแล้ว ห้ามไม่ให้คัดสำเนาคำพิพากษาหรือคำสั่งเดิม เว้นแต่จะได้คัดสำเนาคำสั่งเพิ่มเติมนั้นรวมไปด้วย
English translation
If in any judgment or order there is a minor error or other minor slip, and there has been no appeal or further appeal against that judgment or order, the court that gave the judgment or made the order may, where it sees fit or on the application of a party concerned, make an order to correct such error or slip so as to be correct. But if there has been an appeal or further appeal against that judgment or order, the power to correct the error or slip belongs to the appeal court or the Supreme Court, as the case may be. An application to correct the error or slip shall be filed with such court, either stated in the memorandum of appeal or further appeal, or made as a separate application. The making of a supplementary order under this section must not reverse or amend the decision in the original judgment or order. Once such an order has been made, it is prohibited to make a copy of the original judgment or order unless a copy of the supplementary order is included with it.
This English translation is provided for reference only and has not yet been firm-verified. Always rely on the Thai original.
Firm annotation
Section 143 provides a narrow route to correct minor errors and slips in a judgment or order without disturbing the decision itself. The power belongs to the court that gave the judgment while no appeal is pending, and passes to the appeal court or Supreme Court once an appeal is filed, with the correction sought either in the memorandum or by separate application. The critical limit is that a supplementary order may not reverse or amend the substance of the decision, so Section 143 cannot be used to reargue the merits or fix a genuine adjudication error. It works alongside Section 144, which bars reopening a decided matter except as this and other listed provisions allow.
Why this matters in practice
If a judgment contains an obvious slip, such as a mistyped figure or name that does not change the outcome, Section 143 lets you ask the court to correct it without a full appeal. But the limit is strict: this cannot be used to change the actual decision, and errors that are really your own, or that belong to the enforcement stage, fall outside it. Frame any application as a true clerical correction and file it with the right court depending on whether an appeal is pending. If a judgment has a problem that goes to the merits, an appeal, not a Section 143 request, is the route, and you can discuss options in a consultation with a Thai lawyer.
Décisions de la Cour suprême interprétant cette section
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Arrêt de la Cour suprême n° 99/2568 (2025)
An error that is the party's own mistake, rather than a minor error or slip in the court's judgment, cannot be corrected under Section 143.
The plaintiffs asked to correct a title deed number, but the mistake was in their own application to have the defendants evicted, not in the court's judgment. The Supreme Court held this was not a minor error or slip within Section 143, so it could not correct it as requested.
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Arrêt de la Cour suprême n° 4819/2566 (2023)
A request that the court decide issues and content it allegedly failed to address is not a case of a minor error or slip, so it does not fall within Section 143.
The plaintiff asked the court to amend its judgment on the ground that it had not decided the issues and substance of the claim. The court held this was not a matter of correcting a minor error or slip under Section 143 and dismissed the application, a conclusion the appeal court affirmed.
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Arrêt de la Cour suprême n° 1467/2566 (2023)
Where a stated land area in a judgment may be a minor error or slip under Section 143, but the request in substance concerns execution, it is treated as an execution matter rather than a Section 143 correction.
A survey showed the land area differed from the figure in the judgment, which might look like a slip under Section 143. But the court held the application in substance sought directions on execution, so it was an execution matter rather than a Section 143 correction.
Curated decisions with case numbers verified against the Supreme Court database. English renderings are the firm's editorial translation for study.
Cited in 124 Supreme Court decisions (1950 to 2025)
Décisions de citation sélectionnées
- Decision 99/2568 (2025)
- Decision 1977/2564 (2021)
- Decision 5226/2561 (2018)
- Décision 7788/2560 (2017)
- Decision 13069/2558 (2015)
- Decision 9897/2558 (2015)
- Décision 8747/2558 (2015)
- Decision 2219/2558 (2015)
Cette liste est sélectionnée automatiquement, en privilégiant les jugements qui reposent sur cet article plutôt que sur ceux qui se contentent de le citer lors du prononcé de la peine. Elle n'a pas encore été examinée par le cabinet.
Le plus souvent cité aux côtés de
- Article 142 10
- Article 91 du Code pénal thaïlandais 9
- Art. 15 du Code de procédure pénale thaïlandais 8
- Article 78 du Code pénal thaïlandais 8
- Article 145 8
- Article 144 7
Sections qui apparaissent le plus souvent dans les mêmes jugements que celui-ci. Le chiffre correspond au nombre de décisions.
Calculé sur l'ensemble du corpus de 83 652 décisions de la Cour suprême du cabinet, de 1921 à 2026. Le décompte est exhaustif ; la plage d'années indiquée élimine les valeurs aberrantes rares afin de refléter la répartition réelle des citations. Ces chiffres sont calculés par nos soins et ne constituent pas des statistiques officielles de la Cour. Comment nous les comptons et ce que nous avons mesuré
Foire aux questions
Un tribunal peut-il corriger une erreur dans son propre jugement ?
Oui, mais seulement des erreurs ou des omissions mineures. En vertu de l'article 143, le tribunal peut les corriger d'office ou sur demande, à condition que la correction ne modifie pas la décision initiale.
L’article 143 peut-il être utilisé pour modifier l’issue d’une affaire ?
Non. Une rectification au titre de l'article 143 ne doit ni annuler ni modifier la décision. Si une partie souhaite contester le fond de l'affaire, elle doit interjeter appel, et non présenter une demande de rectification.
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Citation simple
Civil Procedure Code, s. 143 (Thailand) -
Citation académique
Civil Procedure Code (Thailand), s. 143. ThaiLawOnline, https://www.thailawonline.com/fr/thai-civil-procedure-code/section-143/ (accessed 1 septembre 2026). -
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ป.วิ.พ. มาตรา 143 -
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