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if the cases are before a municipal court, when the single judge has considered the evidence therein and found that the punishment of the accused should be imprisonment over six months or a fine over two hundred baht, the municipal court shall send its opinion and the files to the Criminal Court or provincial court, as the case may be, for adjudication;
and has the powers—
(1)to examine and give decisive rulings on motions or applications submitted to the court in civil cases, save where the interpleading or requesting parties are the plaintiffs or defendants;
(2)to conduct preliminary examinations and give orders in all criminal cases.
Section23.In other courts of first instance than municipal courts, a judicial panel to try and adjudicate upon all civil and criminal cases must be established by at least two judges.
When judges cannot sit in full panel for trying a case, the judges sitting for trying such case shall have the power to invite persons of the following characteristics to sit as substitute judges in order that the panel be complete:
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