The contradictory reasoning of the Constitutional Court regarding the dismissal of former Prime Minister Paetongtarn Shinawatra has aroused scepticism, as the same phone call was seen as evidence of both “honesty” and “unethical conduct” at the same time.

The unprecedented rejection by the Privy Council of a decree to dissolve parliament has intensified the unresolved legal debate over an Acting Prime Minister’s authority. Legal academic Worachet Pakeerut stressed that the authority also rests with an Acting PM, warning that the Privy Council’s intervention could also risk deepening constitutional ambiguity.

Following the political turmoil caused by the Constitutional Court’s dismissal of former PM Paetongtarn Shinawatra, a controversy has arisen over whether the acting PM has the power to dissolve parliament. According to Worachet Pakeerut, a lecturer at Thammasat University’s Faculty of Law, he does.

On 31 January 2024, the Constitutional Court ruled that the Move Forward Party, the main opposition party which won the most seats in the House of Representatives in the 2023 general election, had committed treason by campaigning to amend the royal defamation law. The ruling was later cited in the Court's ruling to dissolve the party. Worachet Pakeerut, lecturer at Thammasat University’s Faculty of Law, questioned how MPs proposing a bill to parliament could be seen as an exercise of their rights and liberties when legislating is part of an MP’s mandate, and argued that the ruling will deter future amendments to the royal defamation law and discussions of monarchy-related issues.

<p>In response to a petition filed by law academic Worachet Pakeerut, who was summoned and charged by the NCPO junta, the Constitutional Court has ruled that junta orders that forcibly summon people to military camps and punish them for not doing so violate the constitution.</p>

<div>Amnesty International and the National Human Rights Commission visited the 14 embattled anti-junta activists at Bangkok prisons on Thursday, while about a hundred people gathered to offer moral support to the jailed activists.</div> <div>&nbsp;</div> <div>The activists, mostly students, protested against the junta and had been arrested for their nonviolent protests on 26 June.&nbsp;</div> <div>&nbsp;</div> <div>On Thursday, two representatives from Amnesty International visited the activists and issued an urgent action to call for the activists’ release.</div> <div>&nbsp;</div> <div>The arreste </div>

<p>The Thai authorities have put 13 of the 14 anti-junta activists into separate prison cells, a decision which the activists in detention have protested, saying that it has political implications.</p> <p>On Thursday, 2 June 2015, Bangkok Remand Prison separated the 13 male anti-junta activists in custody into groups of 2-3 and detained them in different compounds of the prison.</p>

<div> <div>The Bangkok military court on Tuesday held the first witness hearing in the case where Worachet Pakeerut, courageous law academic from Thammasat University, is accused of twice defying the coup makers’ orders to report in.&nbsp;</div> <div>&nbsp;</div> <div>Observers from Thai and international human rights organizations and the US and German Embassies came to observe the trial.&nbsp;</div> <div>&nbsp;</div> <div>The public prosecutor filed two charges against Worachet for defying NCPO Orders No. 5/2014, issued on 24 May 2014, and No. 57/2014, issued on 9 June 2014. </div></div>

<p>Bangkok’s Military Court dismissed a petition questioning its jurisdiction, submitted by Worachet Pakeerut, a prominent law academic and core member of the&nbsp;<a href="http://www.prachatai.org/english/category/nitirat">Nitirat group</a>, who was charged with failing to report to the junta. &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</p> <p>According to&nbsp;<a href="https://www.facebook.com/1422797047994795/photos/a.1422801184661048.1073741828.1422797047994795/1540103046264194/?type=1">Free Thai Legal Aid (FTLA)</a>, the Military Court of Bangkok on Monday morning rejected the petition submitted by Worachet.</p>

<div>&nbsp;</div> <div> <div>Bangkok Military Court on Monday sentenced an anti-coup protester to six months in jail and sentenced red-shirt figure ‘Tom Dundee’ to a year in jail for not reporting as ordered by the junta. The sentences were halved and suspended because they pleaded guilty. </div></div>

<div>&nbsp;</div> <div> <div>Thai police on Wednesday charged Worachet Pakeerut, a law academic from Thammasat University and member of the courageous Nitirat group, for not reporting to the junta -- on time.&nbsp;</div> <div>&nbsp;</div> <div>He was released from Bangkok Remand Prison at about 6.30 pm on Wednesday.</div> <div>&nbsp;</div> <div>Worachet flew back from Hong Kong to Don Muang International Airport in Bangkok on Monday. The Immigration Police detained him and took him to the Army Club in Theves, Bangkok. </div></div>

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