The Constitution Tribunal is set to rule on the electoral fraud cases of the Thai Rak Thai and the Democrat parties on May 30. The junta installed its nine judges shortly after the September 19 coup.
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Panya Thanomrod, 60, is the president of the tribunal. He is also president of the Supreme Court.
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Ackaratorn Chularat, 67, is president of the Supreme Administrative Court. Along with the presidents of the Constitution and Supreme courts, he became well known when they intervened in the election of April 2, 2006, shortly after receiving a royal order. The Administrative Court in late April annulled the byelections in southern constituencies, which allegedly involved fraud. The Constitution Court cancelled the April 2 poll in early May.
In November 2005, the Supreme Administrative Court under Ackaratorn also ruled against the privatisation of the state energy authority Egat, which led to a suspension of its initial public offering. It was seen a major blow to the Thai Rak Thai government. |
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Jaran Hatthakam, 69, is a Supreme Administrative Court judge and former Supreme Court judge. He is one of the judges who ruled against the privatisation of Egat.
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Vichai Chunchompoonuch, 63, is one of the Supreme Administrative Court judges who in the aftermath of the September coup reversed a lower court’s ruling that dismissed a petition against the business empire of deposed premier Thaksin Shinawatra’s family.
The petition, launched by antiThaksin academic Sastra Toorn, had asked for the cancellation of concessions granted to Shin Corp for operating communications satellite, cellular and television broadcasting businesses. He claimed Shin Corp was no longer entitled to hold the licences because its businesses were under the control of Temasek Holdings of Singapore. The case is still in court. |
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Thanis Ketsawapitak, 56, is a Supreme Court judge and a guest lecturer at Chulalongkorn University’s Faculty of Law. He was an assistant prosecutor, the head judge at Mukdahan provincial court, the head judge at the Central Tax Court, an assistant Supreme Court judge, deputy director at Thonburi Civil Court and head judge at the Appeals Court. .
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Somchai Pongsata, 59, is head of the Appeals Court’s bankruptcy case department. He was a head judge at Chon Buri Provincial Court, Tungsong Provincial Court and Samut Prakan Provincial Court. Somchai was also the deputy director of the Legal Execution Department, deputy director of the Civil Court, head of judges at Appeals Court Region 1 and an Appeals Court judge.
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Nurak Mapraneet, 57, is a Supreme Court judge who was appointed to the National Legislative Assembly after the September coup. He was chief judge of the Appeals Court Region 8. Nurak received a bachelor degree in law from Thammasat University. He is a classmate of National Security Council secretarygeneral General Winai Phatthiyakul from the National Defence College.
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Kitisak Kitikhunpairote, 59, head of the Supreme Court judges, earned a bachelor degree in law from Thammasat University. He was a head judge of Songkhla Provincial Court, deputy chief judge of the Criminal Court, vice president of the Appeals Court and later became a Supreme Court judge.
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Krairerk Kasemsant, 59, vice president of the Supreme Court, graduated with a bachelor’s degree in law from Thammasat University. He was directorgeneral of the probation department, deputy chief judge of the Criminal Court, president of the Appeals Court Region 6. He was also a law lecturer at Thammasat University.
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