The government is weighing up seeking a Civil Court ruling on whether the registration of Hopewell (Thailand) Co is legal, in its latest attempt to invalidate the company’s right to a multi-billion-baht compensation payment awarded by the Supreme Court in 2019.
Piraphan Salirathavibhaga, head of the working group handling problems associated with the forsaken rail project, was reacting to Friday’s decision by a plenary session of Supreme Administrative Court judges to accept for consideration a petition jointly filed by the Transport Ministry and the State Railway of Thailand (SRT).
The petition was lodged in opposition to the Central Administrative Court’s earlier decision to dismiss the parties’ formal request for a retrial of the original case.
The latest decision by the Supreme Administrative Court judges has been interpreted by some as a turning point in the…
