Section 155: Right to apply for fee waiver

Supreme Court decisions interpreting this section

1. Supreme Court Judgment No. 1932/2568 (2025)

   The exemption applied for under Sections 155 and 156 covers only court fees; it does not cover money that must be lodged to reimburse the opposing party under the trial court's judgment, which is not a court fee.

   In a consumer case where the defendant owed no court fee on appeal but had to lodge the sum to reimburse the plaintiff under the trial judgment, the Supreme Court held that the waiver of court fees under Sections 155 and 156, applied by analogy, reaches court fees only, not that reimbursement sum.

2. Supreme Court Judgment No. 2070/2562 (2019)

   Sections 155 and 156 on waiver of court fees cannot be applied by analogy to excuse an employer from the deposit that section 125 paragraph three of the Labour Protection Act B.E. 2541 requires before it may sue to set aside a labour inspector's order, and the employer may not put up land as security instead.

   An employer suing to set aside a labour inspector's order asked to be excused from the cash deposit required by section 125 paragraph three of the Labour Protection Act, invoking Sections 155 and 156 by analogy and offering land as security instead. The Supreme Court refused: the Code's fee-waiver provisions cannot be brought in to displace that deposit. Its further complaint that section 125 paragraph three is unconstitutional also failed, because it asked the appellate court to reverse or vary the order rather than to refer the question to the Constitutional Court as section 212 of the Constitution requires.

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