INSIGHTS
Insights
The questions that come up most, answered from the statute and verified Supreme Court authority rather than from impressions.
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Labour and employment
Dismissed in a restructuring: with severance paid, is there still a claim
Severance and unfair dismissal damages are different money under Supreme Court judgment 1392/2544, but both must be claimed in one action.
Phenhnung Thabthimthong · 6 August 2026 -
Civil and commercial litigation
One chat, two transfers, only one recovered
In judgment 3622/2568 two transfers in the same chat went opposite ways: a thank-you sticker counted as a signature but did not make the message mean a loan.
Phenhnung Thabthimthong · 6 August 2026 -
Civil and commercial litigation
The creditor missed the sixty days: how far is the guarantor freed
The second paragraph of section 686 frees a guarantor from interest and accessories arising after sixty days, but judgment 220/2562 holds the principal obligation survives.
Phenhnung Thabthimthong · 6 August 2026 -
Enforcement and asset recovery
The thirty per cent nobody can find in the statute
Section 302 of the Civil Procedure Code protects an amount, not a percentage: government pay is wholly exempt, private pay up to twenty thousand baht a month.
Phenhnung Thabthimthong · 6 August 2026 -
Civil and commercial litigation
Can untitled land be adversely possessed, and when do the ten years start
Adverse possession under section 1382 needs land another person owns, so untitled land is outside it under judgment 8393/2540, and the ten years run from the deed.
Phenhnung Thabthimthong · 7 August 2026 -
Civil and commercial litigation
Acknowledging a debt after it has expired leaves the creditor two years
The same acknowledgment yields ten years or two, depending only on whether it was signed before or after the claim expired: judgments 4507/2547 and 12264/2555.
Phenhnung Thabthimthong · 7 August 2026 -
Civil and commercial litigation
One co-guarantor keeps paying, and time runs on for the others
Section 692 carries an interruption from debtor to guarantor, but not back the other way and not across between co-guarantors, as judgment 6403/2561 shows.
Phenhnung Thabthimthong · 7 August 2026 -
Civil and commercial litigation
Interest above fifteen per cent is not reduced to fifteen, it is void
Section 654 says the rate comes down to fifteen per cent, but judgment 1452/2511 holds the interest wholly void, not merely the excess, while the principal stands.
Phenhnung Thabthimthong · 7 August 2026
ENQUIRIES
