New guide: who can actually sue when someone is killed in Thailand
Thai law gives no general bereavement award. What a family can recover on a death is set by CCC s.443:
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New guide: when a child becomes legitimate, and what it backdates
Our new guide sets out the three routes to legitimation under CCC s.1547 (the parents’ later marriage, registration at the
A quiet week in the Gazette, with two drafts still running
Nothing new was published in the Royal Gazette this week touching property, family, immigration, tax, company or labour law for
A marriage one month after her death made her a legitimate daughter
Published to the Supreme Court database on 11 October 2026, Dika 6436/2562 involves a couple who lived together without registering
New guide: the agent who makes your foreign company taxable in Thailand
No office, no branch, no registration, and still taxable. Under Revenue Code Section 76 bis, a foreign company acting through
New guide: breach of contract in Thailand, from demand letter to seizure
When the other side stops performing, Thai law gives you specific performance, damages and rescission, but also traps: 2-year prescription
Shouting “kill him”: supporter, not co-principal, says Supreme Court
In Dika 1725/2569, a pickup rammed a motorcycle and a passenger handed the driver a gun; a third man shouted
Nominee crackdown phase 8: four Bangkok luxury estates raided
On 10 October 2026, more than 100 officers raided 17 sites across four Bangkok luxury estates (Bang Na-Suan Luang, Bang
Convicted of something the prosecutor never charged
Four defendants in a fatal construction-site brawl were separately punished for drawing a weapon during an affray, even though the
Thai courts will not retry an arbitration award for you
A losing party in a 9.9 MW power plant EPC arbitration tried three routes to escape a 95.97 million baht