Council vice president Major Sombat Wongkamhaeng, who also chairs the Thai Bars committee on legal aid, said the name of the 59-year-old Pisit was struck from the list because he had been declared insolvent in 2004.
After the registrar and Pisit are notified of the councils resolution, Pisit will no longer be able to present himself as a lawyer or face punishment under the Lawyer Act, Sombat said. A friend of Pisit had contacted the council to say that Pisit would soon explain himself at a later unspecified date, he added.
Council representatives accompanied Porntip Chantharat and her wheelchair-bound daughter Pattarada Beam Kaewpong to a Bangkok court yesterday to file a civil lawsuit against Pisit for allegedly cheating them out of c…
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