Thread: Canadian Lawyer's Contract With Thaksin Terminated

BANGKOK — The Canadian lawyer who was hired by former Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra to represent the Redshirt movement says his engagement with the former leader has terminated.

A press release published on Robert Amsterdam’s website on 2 January 2014 states:

“Amsterdam & Partners LLP was first retained in April of 2010 by the former Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra to defend the rights of the Red Shirt pro-democracy movement....However following a military coup last May which toppled the elected government, conditions for human rights have sharply deteriorated, and the engagement between Robert Amsterdam and former Prime Minister Thaksin has concluded.”

According to the statement, Amsterdam has launched a new campaign aimed at bringing criminal charges against “the coup leadership and those responsible for the 2010 Bangkok massacre.” The effort will be conducted on a pro bono basis, independent of any active political figures or parties in Thailand, the press release says.

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Good luck with that..

What is it about Thai and their idiotically misconceived ideas that lead them to think people will actually believe what they say is true when anyone with half a brain knows they're talking bollocks.

As if a Canadian firm of lawyers, with no connection whatsoever with Thailand, are going to work without payment entirely on their own account to prosecute a former government head without any jurisdiction and outside of any meaningful framework.

Mmmmm......do you think Toxin is just " pretending " not to employ Amsterdam any longer so that his sister won't get it in the neck from Prayuth for interfering and meddling in Thai affairs on her brother's behalf?

This spurious bit of PR is as credible as Toxin's divorce.

^ You're saying the ex-wife's working "pro bono" as well?