The apex of the courts of justice, one of four separate court systems alongside the Constitutional Court, the Administrative Courts and the Military Courts. Thai law is codified on continental European models, principally the Civil and Commercial Code, and the Administrative Court track handles challenges to state action, so a permit or licence dispute does not come here.
How the court is constituted
- Tier
- supreme
- Court type
- Apex court of the ordinary hierarchy
- Jurisdiction
- Final appeals in civil and criminal matters, with a Criminal Division for Political Office Holders exercising first-instance jurisdiction over senior officials.
- Seat
- Bangkok
- Established
- 1908
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