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As the title of this video suggests, we are asking the question, "are legal proceedings slower in Thailand, Court proceedings specifically?" I thought of making this video after reading a recent article from the Pattaya Mail, the article is titled: Pattaya City Expats Club: Staying Safe Legally in Thailand 2023. Quoting directly: "The case is heard by Thai Judges and a case may drag on for a lengthy period as the trial may involve several sessions with months between them thus dragging on for years." So they are talking about Court proceedings in Thailand. 

Yes, I do have to say when you compare Court proceedings in Thailand to Court proceedings in the West, it's night and day especially in terms of speed of trial. The other interesting thing that I have noticed just as an observer of Thai Court proceedings is you also may end up in a situation where multiple Judges are involved in the overall proceeding; you may not have the same Judge in each adjudication, in each proceeding, in each session. You may have a different person depending on circumstances so that's kind of one that is kind of odd is you end up in these situation where you get different people. The other thing is again yeah, the pace, it is quite a bit slower. There isn't a notion of 'speedy trial' the way that we think of 'speedy trial' in for example the American context and there's certainly isn't a right to that per for example the American Constitution. 

Now that said, Thailand does have rules in place; it can't go on forever. There are deadlines where filings have to be made. Failure to do so can result in basically the case being extinguished and that person being allowed to go free. Again, it's circumstantially dependent based on the circumstances and again what you are being charged with but yeah, it doesn't go on indefinitely but I think it is fair to say that compared to for example Western systems and I am just going to compare it directly to the American system which is the one I have the most knowledge of and experience with, it definitely is slower. It's slower than what we are used to in the context of an American Court proceeding.