{"id":5401,"date":"2026-08-31T22:45:59","date_gmt":"2026-08-31T15:45:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thailawonline.com\/thai-legal-news\/developer-cannot-keep-2-8-million-baht-as-a-deposit-supreme-court-sets-aside-arbitration-award-in-dika-1511-2569\/"},"modified":"2026-09-28T04:15:14","modified_gmt":"2026-09-27T21:15:14","slug":"developer-cannot-keep-2-8-million-baht-as-a-deposit-supreme-court-sets-aside-arbitration-award-in-dika-1511-2569","status":"publish","type":"tlo_legal_news","link":"https:\/\/www.thailawonline.com\/fr\/thai-legal-news\/developer-cannot-keep-2-8-million-baht-as-a-deposit-supreme-court-sets-aside-arbitration-award-in-dika-1511-2569\/","title":{"rendered":"Le promoteur ne peut pas conserver 2,8 millions de bahts \u00e0 titre d\u201c\u201d acompte \u00bb : la Cour supr\u00eame annule la sentence arbitrale dans l'arr\u00eat Dika 1511\/2569"},"content":{"rendered":"

Un acheteur d'un 11,6 millions de bahts<\/b> la copropri\u00e9t\u00e9 a pay\u00e9 un 100 000 bahts<\/b> frais de r\u00e9servation, donc 2 810 780 bahts<\/b> huit jours apr\u00e8s la signature, et a ensuite fait d\u00e9faut. Un arbitre a permis au promoteur de tout conserver comme arrhes<\/b>. Dans Dika 1511\/2569<\/b> the Supreme Court set the award aside. It did not rule on the 100,000 baht, which the arbitrator had treated as a deposit under Article 377<\/b> du Code civil et commercial, mais les 2,8 millions ont \u00e9t\u00e9 pay\u00e9s apr\u00e8s<\/i> le contrat et repr\u00e9sentait une part bien trop importante du prix pour constituer une garantie : c'\u00e9tait un acompte, et le traiter comme susceptible d'\u00eatre confisqu\u00e9 \u00e9tait contraire \u00e0 l'ordre public<\/b> Selon le Section 40, troisi\u00e8me alin\u00e9a (2)(b)<\/b> de la loi sur l'arbitrage B.E. 2545.<\/p>\n

If your developer contract calls a 20 to 25% payment at signing a “deposit”, it is not one in law. Instalments retained on default are a penalty the court can cut down under Article 383<\/b>.<\/p>\n

\u21aa Condo deposit forfeiture in Thailand: what Dika 1511\/2569 means for buyers<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A buyer of an 11.6 million baht condominium paid a 100,000 baht reservation fee, then 2,810,780 baht eight days after […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":5400,"template":"","meta":{"pmpro_default_level":"","site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"tlo_news_type":"","tlo_source_url":"","tlo_impact":"","tlo_effective_date":"","tlo_source_ref":""},"tlo_news_topic":[],"tlo_news_profile":[],"tlo_news_impact":[],"class_list":["post-5401","tlo_legal_news","type-tlo_legal_news","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","pmpro-has-access"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thailawonline.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/legal-news\/5401","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thailawonline.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/legal-news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thailawonline.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/tlo_legal_news"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thailawonline.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5400"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thailawonline.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5401"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"tlo_news_topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thailawonline.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tlo_news_topic?post=5401"},{"taxonomy":"tlo_news_profile","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thailawonline.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tlo_news_profile?post=5401"},{"taxonomy":"tlo_news_impact","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thailawonline.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tlo_news_impact?post=5401"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}