According to the two-day Regional Meeting in Bangkok, Thailand on 17 - 18 June
2003, the Office of the Supreme Court of Thailand had set up a group of specialists with
expertise in substantial law concerning the management of natural resources and
environment and specialists with expertise in procedural law, namely professor of law
and judges to study and conduct a research project in order to increase the capacity of
judges and Courts of Justice to cove with the environmental law cases and the
controversies involving environmental issues. The research purpose is to analyze
environmental cases in Courts of Justice for clear understanding of the true nature of the
environmental cases problems with regard to difficulties, obstacles and constraints which
will efficiently lead to the appropriate roles and authority of Courts of Justice in
protecting, providing remedies to the injured, suppressing the offenders of those with
tendency to commit offence.