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Justice Trends in Thailand:

Preparing for the next decade

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มูลนิธิสถาบันวิจัยเพื่อการพัฒนาประเทศไทย สนับสนุนโดย สํานักงานกิจการยุติธรรมกระทรวงยุติธรรม

3 factors affecting the justice system

• Legal and political

environment

• Economic, social and

cultural changes

• Technological and

scientific progress

Legal and political environment

• Rule of Law
• The World Justice Project's

http://worldjusticeproject.org/what-rule-law

• The United Nations Millennium Development Goals
• Constraints on

Government Powers

• Absence of Corruption
• Open Government
• Fundamental Rights
• Order and Security
• Regulatory Enforcement
• Civil Justice
• Criminal Justice
• (Informal Justice)

Economic, social and cultural changes

• Emerging ASEAN Community
• Increase in FDIs and MNCs
• Rise of economic and cross-border crimes
• Widespread anti-competitive practices
• Socio-cultural issues, e.g. cross-cultural marriages,

aging society.

Technological change

• E-commerce
• Cyberspace terrorism & Computer Crimes
• 3D Printing Technology
• Stem cell & Cloning
• Property rights in intangible assets such DNAs,

carbon credits, etc.

• Data Protection
• Electronic Funds Transfer
• Cloud Computing
• Piracy on cyberspace

Preparing the Thai Justice System:

Our recommendations

• Prevention of crimes
• Adopting UN sustainable development goals
• Building cultural respect for law
• Integrating the ROL concept into Thai legal system
• Decriminalize certain acts
• Cost-effective methods of crime preventions
• Better policing, drug treatment or probation

• Reform judiciary system
• Improvement of quality of judicial decisions
• Restricted jurisdiction of the Supreme Court
• Reduce court cases, eg. mediation, ADRs, informal justice

systems

• Outsource some police works, such as enforcement of petty

crimes, to private parties

• Introduce court technology, court e-filing, and e-courts
• Review existing court proceedings for delay reduction
• Reform legal education

• Introducing new laws
• Effective competition law and unfair competition law
• Law on personal data protection
• Law on product liability
• Review existing labour law
• Revise the Civil Procedural Code
• Revise the Criminal Procedural Code
• Reform family law
• Review land traffic law