{"id":8857,"date":"2026-09-28T08:45:51","date_gmt":"2026-09-28T01:45:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thailawonline.com\/suing-twice-in-thailand\/"},"modified":"2026-10-23T02:21:25","modified_gmt":"2026-10-22T19:21:25","slug":"suing-twice-in-thailand","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thailawonline.com\/th\/suing-twice-in-thailand\/","title":{"rendered":"\u0e1f\u0e49\u0e2d\u0e07\u0e23\u0e49\u0e2d\u0e07\u0e2a\u0e2d\u0e07\u0e04\u0e23\u0e31\u0e49\u0e07\u0e43\u0e19\u0e1b\u0e23\u0e30\u0e40\u0e17\u0e28\u0e44\u0e17\u0e22: \u0e40\u0e21\u0e37\u0e48\u0e2d\u0e28\u0e32\u0e25\u0e44\u0e21\u0e48\u0e2d\u0e19\u0e38\u0e0d\u0e32\u0e15\u0e43\u0e2b\u0e49\u0e1f\u0e49\u0e2d\u0e07\u0e04\u0e14\u0e35\u0e17\u0e35\u0e48\u0e2a\u0e2d\u0e07"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Suing twice in Thailand<\/strong> over the same dispute is not just frowned upon: it is barred, and the bar is applied strictly. Thai courts will dismiss a second case that re-opens an issue already decided between the same parties, even when the second claim is dressed up as something new. Supreme Court decision 833\/2569<\/strong>, a consumer case published in September 2026, is a clean example: an insurance company that had lost, paid a 16.2 million baht judgment, and then sued the other side for a 100,000 baht deductible under the very same policy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It lost again, and this time it lost on procedure. For anyone litigating in Thailand (a landlord, a condo buyer, an employee, an insured driver), the lesson is that you get one shot at a dispute. Everything you want from it has to be in the first case.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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