Wednesday, March 28, 2007

The Administrative Court Hearing…


Today the court hearing started by having all the lawyers swears to tell the truth. This was a surprise to me, since I never seen a judge in America ask the lawyers to tell the truth. And the majority of American doesn’t expect lawyers to tell the truth. Smile!

The hearing was all in Thai and I could not understand, so I watch Pattaya City Hall and View Talay layers go through tuff question my the judge. I could tell by the expiration on their face and body language they were unprepared and had no good evidence against our case about 200 meters from the beach before they could build a condo taller then 14 meters. They try to argue the city could do what ever they wanted to because it was within their city plan. They did not get very far with the judge in their expiations. Also in the closing the questions were mostly about where to start the measurement from? High tide or low tide and was it was explained to me the judge was favoring high tide in his questioning. City hall and VT7 lawyers argued that 200 meters law is 100 meters to the sea shore and you anther 100 meter into the sea before you start to measure. This did not make any sense to me. I do not think they impressed the judge with all their paper fumbling and twist logic. The judge said he would give a decision in near future.

After the hearing our lawyers were very happy and positive about our changes of getting an injection to stop work by VT7.But our lawyers can not promise the outcome. We were all feeling good and showing smiles in the land of smiles. Now we wait to read what the judge’s court orders. This court order could be very good for all of Thailand , the sea shore and the rules of law.
Today the court hearing started by having all the lawyers swear to tell the truth. This was a surprise to me, since I have never seen a judge in America ask the lawyers to tell the truth and the majority of American don’t expect lawyers to tell the truth. Smile!

The hearing was all in Thai and I could not understand it, so I watched the Pattaya City Hall and View Talay lawyers go through tough questions by the judge. I could tell by the expressions on their face and body language they were unprepared and had no good evidence against our case about the 200 meters from the beach setback requirement before they could build a condo taller then 14 meters. They tried to argue the city could do whatever they wanted to because it was within their city plan. They did not get very far with the judge with their explanations. Also in the closing, the questions were mostly about where to start the measurement? High tide or low tied and as it was explained to me the judge was favoring high tide in his questioning. City hall and VT7 lawyers argued that the 200 meters law is 100 meters to the seashore and you go another 100 meters into the sea before you start to measure. This did not make any sense to me. I do not think they impressed the judge with all their paper fumbling and twisted logic. The judge said he would give a decision in near future.

After the hearing our lawyers were very happy and positive about our chances of getting an injunction to stop work by VT7, but our lawyers cannot promise the outcome. We were all feeling good and showing smiles in the land of smiles. Now we wait to read what the judge’s court orders. This court order could be very good for all of Thailand, the seashore and the rules of law.

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

congratulations guys
i just had a dream like said luther king
i wanted peace and a sea view