Volume 117, Issue 44A
Royal Gazette
18 May 2543
Section16.The courts of first instance have territorial jurisdiction as designated by their constituent acts.
The Civil Court and the Criminal Court have territorial jurisdiction over all the districts of Bangkok, save the districts which are under the territorial jurisdiction of the Bangkok South Civil Court, the Thon Buri Civil Court, the Bangkok South Criminal Court, the Thon Buri Criminal Court, the Min Buri Provincial Court, and other courts of justice, as designated by their constituent acts.
In the event that a case is instituted before the Civil Court or Criminal Court and such case occurred outside the territorial jurisdiction of the Civil Court or Criminal Court, then the Civil Court or Criminal Court, as the case may be, may exercise discretion as to whether it should accept to try and adjudicate upon the case or should order it to be transferred to another competent court of justice.
In the event that a case is instituted before a provincial court and such case occurred inside the territorial jurisdiction of a municipal court and is under the power of a municipal court, the provincial court shall order the case to be transferred to the competent municipal court.
Section17.Municipal courts have the power to try and adjudicate upon cases and have the power to conduct examinations or issue any orders for which a single judge has the power as designated in section 24 and section 25, paragraph 1.
Section18.Provincial courts have the power to try and adjudicate upon all the civil and criminal cases which are not under the power of the other courts of justice.
Section19.The Civil Court, the Bangkok South Civil Court, and the Thon Buri Civil Court have the power to try and adjudicate upon all civil cases and any of the other cases which are not under the power of the other courts of justice.
The Criminal Court, the Bangkok South Criminal Court, and the Thon Buri Criminal Court have the power to try all the criminal cases which are not under the power of the other courts of justice, as well as any other cases which a law subjects to the power of a court of criminal jurisdiction, as the case may be.
Section20.Other courts of justice have the power to try and adjudicate upon cases as designated by their constituent acts or other laws.
Section21.The Court of Appeal has territorial jurisdiction over all the districts which are not under the territorial jurisdiction of the Regional Courts of Appeal.
In the event that an appeal against a case is submitted to the Court of Appeal and such case is outside the territorial jurisdiction of the Court of Appeal, the Court of Appeal may exercise discretion as to whether it should accept to try and adjudicate upon the case or should order it to be transferred to the competent Regional Court of Appeal.
Section22.The Court of Appeal and the Regional Courts of Appeal have the power to try and adjudicate upon all cases in which judgments or orders of courts of first instance are appealed according to the provisions of the laws dealing with appeals and with jurisdiction of courts, and have the following powers:
(1)to reaffirm, revise, reverse, or rescind judgments of courts of first instance which sentence persons to death or life imprisonment, when the cases have been sent up to the Court of Appeal and the Regional Courts of Appeal as prescribed in the criminal procedure laws;
