The BBC’s Jonathan Head, who is being sued for what a lot more foreign correspondents in Thailand should have been doing for years, is finding out just what it means to get involved in Thailand’s controversial legal system. Jonathan, who took up the cases of Briton’s Ian Rance and Irishman Colin Vard, the latter which was first investigated on this …
THE PATTAYA BRIDGE CLUB RAID – INCOMING FIRE!
THE PATTAYA BRIDGE CLUB RAID – JUST WHO SHOULD BE IN THE DOCK? There are now multiple versions of what will happen to the now celebrated members of the Pattaya Bridge Club after their alleged ‘gambling den’ was raided last week. Here are the two principal ones. The official version from the local Police chief Police Colonel Sunhat Pumpanueang is …
BENT LAWYER TAKES ON THE BBC BUREAU CHIEF UNDER COMPUTER CRIME ACT
CAUGHT BANG TO RIGHTS – BUT WAIT -THIS IS THE THAI JUDICIAL SYSTEM BBC South East Asia Correspondent Jonathan Head and two foreigners, who were massively being defrauded in Thailand, are being sued by one of Thailand’s infamous bent lawyers for libel under Thailand’s Computer Crime Act. Head, also the President of the Foreign Correspondents Club of Thailand (2014-5), is …