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zaphodbeeblebrox, on 2011-01-02 08:44:51, said:
mopenyang, on 2011-01-02 03:43:20, said:
zaphodbeeblebrox, on 2011-01-01 14:44:05, said:
Thai lawyers don't work on contingency. All money is paid up front by the litigant.
Not always the case.
Have you ever represented a litigant in a severance case in Labour Court in Thailand?
No, and neither have you. It's the way the government prevents competent litigators from overrunning the poor lot they call attorneys in this country. How do I know? I oversee dozens of these Thai "lawyers" as part of my job. I've fired more lawyers than I've fired employees here in Thailand. The protection of their profession allows them to operate a legalized organized crime syndicate. I've never heard of any of them working on a contingency basis. And, by the way, I've been involved in about 15 cases where severance pay was claimed.
Impressive but it also sounds like you should know better than to make the blanket statement that all Thai lawyers don't work on a contingency basis.
This may have been your experience but it is surely not mine.
So of the 15 severance cases that you were involved in, can you tell us how many were actually adjudicated at the Labour Court level rather than at the ministry/administrative level?
Were they all thrown out or were some of the plaintiffs able to successfully prosecute their severance claim?
