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within one month from the date that the judgment or order of the Court of
Appeal for Specialized Cases is readout. The Court of First Instance shall,
without delay, send such claim together with the petition to the Supreme
Court and the Supreme Court shall, without delay, complete its
consideration for such claim.”

The expenses incurred during a civil case proceeding include
court fees. For the cases with computable monetary value claim, court fees
for the amount not exceeding 5 million THB shall be the rate of 2% of the
amount of the monetary value in dispute but not exceeding 200,000 THB.
For the amount exceeding 5 million THB, the court fees are additionally
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charged at the rate of 0.1% of the claim amount .
For the cases without the monetary claim, where the relief sought
is to cease grievance or damage not computable in term of value, the
plaintiff is charged at the rate of 200 THB per case. For the case where the
relief is in part computable in terms of money and in part not computable,
the court fees will be charged at the same rate as for cases with
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computable monetary value but at the minimum of 200 THB .
6.1.2.2 Specialized cases
Specialized cases are those within the competence of the
Specialized Courts, which are Intellectual Property and International
Trade Courts, Tax Courts, Labour Courts, Bankruptcy Courts, and
Juvenile and Family Courts, as specified by the Act for the Establishment
of and Procedure in such courts.

Prior to 1 October 2016, the appeals against judgments and orders
of specialized Courts, namely Intellectual Property and International
Trade Courts, Tax Courts, Labour Courts, Bankruptcy Courts, and
Juvenile and Family Courts were all sent directly to the Supreme Court.

After the establishment of the Court of Appeal for Specialized
Cases, the appeals against judgments and orders of specialized Courts

153 Office of the Judiciary, Civil Procedure, op.cit., n.d., 9
154 Ibid., 10

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