By Thai Newsroom Reporters PARLIAMENT President Sopon Zaram was today (June 5) asked by the People’s-led opposition to relay a formal request for the Supreme Court to set up an ad hoc committee to investigate the National Anti-Corruption Commission’s failure to press asset concealment charges against former transport minister/former Bhumjaithai secretary-general Saksayam Chidchob. The
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Plea against 400 billion baht borrowed funding decree lodged to Constitutional Court
By Thai Newsroom Reporters THE PEOPLE’S-LED opposition bloc today (May 11) petitioned the Constitutional Court to nullify the Bhumjaithai-led government’s executive decree for a 400 billion baht borrowed funding package which, they contended, may be perpetrated in violation of the constitution and not have been designed on basis of emergency or necessity in regard
Read moreConstitutional Court accepts barcode/QR code-riddled polling case
By Thai Newsroom Reporters THE CONSTITUTIONAL Court today (March 18) accepted a lawsuit filed in pursuit of judgment as to whether last month’s general election be declared null and void due to the questionable existence of barcodes and QR codes on voting ballots. The nine Constitutional Court judges voted 6:3 to resolve to accept
Read moreUS Supreme Court ruling on Trump tariffs boosts global economic growth: Academic
THE US Supreme Court ruling that a law President Donald Trump relied on to impose tariffs does not authorise the president to do so will have a positive impact on global economic growth in terms of the volume and value of world trade with Asian economies, including Thailand, benefiting, a respected Thai academic said
Read morePaetongtarn ousted as PM by Constitutional Court over unethical, dishonest deal with Hun Sen
By Thai Newsroom Reporters PRIME MINISTER Paetongtarn Shinawatra was today (Aug.29) impeached and deposed as head of government by the Constitutional Court for evidently perpetrating conduct in severe breach of ethics and in sheer lack of evident honesty during last June’s leaked cellphone chitchat between senior Cambodian leader Hun Sen and herself. The Constitutional
Read moreParallel lawsuit lodged in pursuit of Paetongtarn’s ouster by Supreme Court
By Thai Newsroom Reporters FOR FEAR OF the possibility that the court-suspended Prime Minister Paetongtarn Shinawatra might be acquitted of an impeachment case by the Constitutional Court on the upcoming Friday, a parallel lawsuit was filed by a group of political activists to the National Anti-Corruption Commission today (Aug.26) and supposedly destined for the
Read moreOffered payoffs feared to be the only way to save Paetongtarn
By Thai Newsroom Reporters OFFERED PAYOFFS might probably be the only way to attempt to save the court-suspended prime minister Paetongtarn Shinawatra from being deposed as head of government in a court verdict on an impeachment lawsuit scheduled for the upcoming Friday, according to a former senior government official. Fears of kickbacks in cash
Read morePaetongtarn to testify in court over leaked phone chitchat with Hun Sen
By Thai Newsroom Reporters THE COURT-SUSPENDED prime minister Paetongtarn Shinawatra would likely testify before the Constitutional Court next Thursday over an impeachment lawsuit filed against her in the wake of a leaked cellphone chitchat between Cambodian leader Hun Sen and herself, according to Prommin Lertsuridej, secretary-general to the embattled prime minister. Prommin said today
Read moreThaksin anticipates Paetongtarn’s survival over impeachment bid
By Thai Newsroom Reporters GIVEN A LAST-DITCH lobbyism and abundant resources at his disposal, de facto Pheu Thai boss Thaksin Shinawatra is certainly anticipating his daughter/court-suspended Prime Minister Paetongtarn Shinawatra to barely survive an impeachment lawsuit which could otherwise result in an ouster of the elected head of government by court later this month,
Read moreDissolution of Constitutional Court solution to political ills: Ex-Thammasat law dean
By Thai Newsroom Reporters A PROPOSED DISSOLUTION of the Constitutional Court is a simple, yet challenging solution to what has appeared to be today’s political troubles stemming from legal battles such as the one surrounding the court-suspended prime minister Paetongtarn Shinawatra, suggested a former scholar over the weekend. Panat Tasneeyanond, former dean of Thammasat
Read moreThaksin urged to tell Paetongtarn to step down
By Thai Newsroom Reporters DE FACTO PHEU THAI BOSS Thaksin Shinawatra could tell his embattled daughter-turned-prime minister Paetongtarn Shinawatra sooner than later to resign as head of government to spare herself further damage from a critical legal battle in court whilst he himself could manipulate again the naming of a new one, according to
Read moreConstitutional Court may keep Paetongtarn from running country from July 8
By Thai Newsroom Reporters THE CONSTITUTIONAL COURT may either practically force Prime Minister Paetongtarn Shinawatra to stop running the country from early next month or simply drop charges filed against her to the extent that she has severely compromised ethics and honesty whilst handling Thai-Cambodian border conflict. The Constitutional Court is scheduled for July
Read moreMedical Council’s action against 3 Thaksin doctors can be appealed: Somchai
THE Medical Council’s vote yesterday (June 12) upholding a decision to warn one doctor and suspend the licence of two others for allowing de facto Pheu Thai boss Thaksin Shinawatra to stay at Police Hospital rather than prison for six months until he was paroled can be appealed but there is also criminal penalty
Read moreFederal court blocks Trump from imposing sweeping tariffs under emergency powers law
By AP and published by Yahoo!News and BBC Washington – A federal court on Wednesday (May 28) blocked President Donald Trump from imposing sweeping tariffs on imports under an emergency-powers law, swiftly throwing into doubt Trump’s signature set of economic policies that have rattled global financial markets, frustrated trade partners and raised broader fears
Read moreSupreme Court’s juggling of Thaksin lawsuit unprecedented phenomenon: Academic
By Thai Newsroom Reporters THE EVENT IN WHICH the Supreme Court lifted a lawsuit filed against Prime Minister Paetongtarn Shinawatra’s father/de facto Pheu Thai boss Thaksin Shinawatra but simultaneously decided to open a court trial on it may be viewed as an unprecedented phenomenon in Thai judicial history, a prominent Thammasat University academic commented
Read moreSupreme Court lifts law-breaking case against Thaksin, Corrections Dept
By Thai Newsroom Reporters THE SUPREME COURT has again waived a repeated lawsuit against Prime Minister Paetongtarn Shinawatra’s father/de facto Pheu Thai boss Thaksin Shinawatra as a former convict at large as well as the Corrections Department on charges of otherwise deliberately breaking the law. The Supreme Court judges in charge of criminal lawsuits
Read moreNominees for Charter Court judges rejected by senators
By Thai Newsroom Reporters IN WHAT WAS SEEN as a preplanned, concerted move of pro-Bhumjaithai senators, a couple of prominent nominees for judge of the Constitutional Court were overwhelmingly denied by those senior lawmakers today (March 18). In a weekly Senate session, a prevailing majority of the senators, over 100 of whom are known
Read moreConstitutional Court urged to hold polling agency guilty, annul senatorial races
By Thai Newsroom Reporters THE CONSTITUTIONAL COURT was today (March 12) pleaded to hold the Election Commission guilty of failure to hold last year’s senatorial elections in fair and clean fashion and to declare the notorious races to parliament null and void, albeit in retroactive fashion. Nataporn Toprayoon, a former adviser to the Office
Read moreFresh bid hatched to have Thaksin returned to jail
By Thai Newsroom Reporters THE SUPREME COURT will be formally asked to pass a retroactive ruling to return de facto Pheu Thai boss Thaksin Shinawatra to prison after he had practically failed to serve a royal pardon-curtailed, one-year jail term last year. Former Democrat MP Charnchai Issarasenarak will shortly petition Supreme Court judges in
Read moreFormer Democrat MPs moving against Thaksin: Lawyer
A LAWYER said in a Facebook post today (Oct. 20) that some former Democrat Party MPs are gearing up to petition the Supreme Court’s Criminal Division for Persons Holding Political Positions to determine whether the Corrections Department violated the law by moving de facto Pheu Thai boss Thaksin Shinawatra to Police Hospital for medical
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