Adisak Tantivong, Chief Justice, reported on six months of policy implementation advancing "Justice Courts for the People," focusing on social connectivity, online data system development, enhancing judgment standards, and promoting work-life balance among personnel.
At 14:00 on 21 Apr 2026 GMT+7, Adisak Tantivong, Chief Justice, presented the progress of his policy "Morality Guides, Builds Trust, Improves Quality" over six months via a Zoom meeting, attended by judiciary officials and personnel from courts across the country.Operational resultsCollectively achieved
Progress updatesOperational outcomesJudiciary personnel nationwide have actively driven the Chief Justice's policies with full effort and capability to build public confidence in the justice courts as a true refuge. The summary is as follows.
1. Morality Guides: Performing duties and conducting oneself based on ethics and morality through academic work, including incorporating mental development, ethics, and morality topics into over 20 training courses for judiciary officials and staff to instill ethical standards from the start.
This includes training on organizational culture in every course, such as court culture, public expectations of judges, judges' conduct, and service-mindedness, aimed at fostering judges and personnel as models of integrity, social responsibility, and pillars upholding justice. Additionally, feedback from personnel nationwide was collected to effectively implement the Chief Justice’s policies.
This includes training on organizational culture in every course, such as court culture, public expectations of judges, judges' conduct, and service-mindedness, aimed at fostering judges and personnel as models of integrity, social responsibility, and pillars upholding justice. Additionally, feedback from personnel nationwide was collected to effectively implement the Chief Justice’s policies.
2. Building Trust: Enhancing justice administration to earn public confidence, such as drafting the Chief Justice’s guidelines on prosecuting criminal cases without integrity, updating the arrest warrant database (AWIS) to protect suspects' rights effectively, piloting automated case information kiosks at Phra Pradaeng District Court and Suvarnabhumi Provincial Court, and developingthe COJ Chat applicationto facilitateinformation reporting,provide news, and legal advice to the public, organizingJustice Courts for the People projectsacross the country to raise societal awareness of the courts' work and services, coordinating with government, private, and civil sectors domestically and internationally systematically, initiating systems to link and screen duplicate complaints, and creating operational guidelines for judiciary leaders and complainants to ensure fairness.
3. Quality Development: Improving all dimensionsto keep pace with changesin the information society.
Regarding judgment and order standards, efforts included developing criminal sentence calculation tools and producinga manual on judgment writing principlesboth domestically and internationally, preparing standard single-party case judgments, supporting up-to-date judgment information, and developing systems to facilitate judges' duties.
In personnel management, as the head of the judiciary organization, the Chief Justice and the Judicial Commission approved changes to transfer and appointment criteria by increasing the number of special courts groups so experienced chief judges can hold positions longer and initiated improvements to assistant judge examinations to meet current workload demands.. (Note: Part 24 is just the word "ปัจจุบัน" meaning "current" or "present," which was incorporated in the previous part's context and left as a fragment here.)
Regarding staff and family quality of life, criteria were considered to set appropriate case judgment timeframes based on case complexity and court personnel, and guidelines to create various work-life balance models, including financial management, stress relief activities onsite, online, and on-demand, and academic and medical service collaboration agreements between the judiciary and Prince of Songkla University.
In personnel development, new diverse skills were cultivated, such as AI-related courses and media literacy programs.
In system operations, e-Filing version 4 was upgraded to enhance convenience for both trial and appellate courts, expanding targets to juvenile and family courts, improving identity verification, and adapting witness document submission to real work conditions. A working group was appointed to develop systems that ease and reduce problems faced by court police officers.
Regarding safety and a good environment, first aid and basic life support skill enhancement projects were organized, and the landscape of justice courts nationwide was improved for beauty and safety.
Chief Justice Adisak expressed gratitude to judiciary personnel nationwide for collaboratively driving the policies to tangible results in the first half of the year and invited all judiciary staff to continue advancing these policies in the second half with dedication to establish internationally standard justice courts trusted by the public sustainably.