Justice Trends in Thailand: Preparing for the next decade - PowerPoint PPT Presentation

Justice Trends in Thailand: Preparing for the next decade จักรกฤษณ ควรพจน และคณะ มูลนิธิสถาบันวิจัยเพื่อการพัฒนาประเทศไทย สนับสนุนโดย สํานักงานกิจการยุติธรรมกระทรวงยุติธรรม

• Legal and political environment 3 factors affecting • Economic, social and the justice system cultural changes • Technological and scientific progress

Legal and political environment  Rule of Law  The World Justice Project's http://worldjusticeproject.org/what - rule - law • Constraints on • Order and Security Government Powers • Regulatory Enforcement • Absence of Corruption • Civil Justice • Open Government • Criminal Justice • Fundamental Rights • (Informal Justice)  The United Nations Millennium Development Goals

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 Data Protection • Electronic Funds Transfer • Cloud Computing • Piracy on cyberspace •  Cyberspace terrorism & Computer Crimes  3D Printing Technology  Stem cell & Cloning  Property rights in intangible assets such DNAs, carbon credits, etc.

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