2014

Next Monday Australian Alan Morison and Sidasathien will head to the prosecutor’s office in Phuket to see if the Royal Thai Navy libel and computer crime act case will go against them. If it does and they are required to pay bail they say they will refuse. It’s the biggest sledgehammer and nut case since […]

AND NOW HE’S A CASE STUDY IN A PATTAYA LEGAL SEMINAR ON LIBEL! FLYING SPORRAN’S MID-WEEK DIARY The news of the jailing of British journalist Andrew Drummond by Drew Noyes, the American former publisher of the now defunct Pattaya Times, who is currently on trial for extortion, may be slightly exaggerated. Drummond was this week […]

Well ThaiVisa.com are not warning their readers so we had better warn them here. Drew Noyes, who is a sponsor of ThaiVisa, is hawking his ‘One Stop’ legal services for foreigners seeking a divorce in Thailand in in the forums. He says he charges just 40,000 baht – if the divorce is not contested plus […]

Three expatriates colluded together to discredit a British journalist and shut him up after he exposed their activities in Thailand, a court in Bangkok heard yesterday. Using Thailand’s criminal libel and computer data act they issued multiple law suits and tried to put British journalist Andrew Drummond in jail or deprive him of his resources, […]

Two cases start in the Criminal Court in Bangkok tomorrow (Monday) in which three expats are accused of plotting a massive internet campaign against an investigative journalist to cover up their own activities in Thailand. Facing libel and Computer Crime charges are Brian Gerald James Goudie (Goldie), 48, from Falkirk, Scotland, Drew Walter Noyes, from […]

ANGRY AMERICAN DENIES HIS MOBILE PHONE Flying Sporran’s Weekend Diary People in court held back their titters but even the judge managed a smile as angry American Drew Noyes disowned what was claimed to be his mobile phone and number and said it belonged to staff and everybody used it. Noyes, incidentally who has put […]

OVER 100 ‘WOLVES OF WALL STREET DOWN’ – 13 BOILER ROOMS TERMINATED Aston Martin seized in Spain With over 100 people arrested in swoops on ‘boiler rooms operators’  in Spain and Britain yesterday detectives of Britain’s City Fraud Squad were quoted in respect of Thailand saying it was a ‘hostile environment’. Newspapers are now referring […]

WILDLIFE FRIENDS FOUNDATION BOSS AND WIFE CLEARED OF WILD CHARGES The Appeal Court today cleared Edwin Wiek, Jansaeng Sangnanork, and the Wildlife Friends Foundation Thailand (WFFT) on charges of illegal wildlife possesion and other crimes after they were arrested in what they describe as a ‘brutal raid’  that lasted almost 10 days in February 2012. […]

CHEATING IS SYSTEMATIC AND ALL ENCOMPASSING IN “CORRUPTION FEST” Battling British workers’ rights crusader Andy Hall has gone head on with Thailand with a report which accuses Thai officials, agents, and employers, of systematically shaking down Myanmar (Burmese) workers for cash. A report which he has presented through the Migrant Workers Rights Network accuses Thais […]

WOULD YOU DO THIS IN GERMANY? – ORGANISERS ASKED It takes a special type of person to take part in a Triathlon; guts, strength, determination, fortitude, willpower and cash, yes – cash.  The bikes used in these swimming, running and cycling events cost upwards of 200,000 baht – £3,500! In the biggest triathlon event in […]