Thailand - Arbitration - Enforcement of Foreign Arbitral Award

Foreign arbitral award refers to an award resulting from arbitration, the proceedings of which was in whole, or in the most part, conducted outside Thailand and wherein one of the parties involved in the dispute was not a person of Thai Nationality.

Under section 29 of the Arbitration Act of 1987, a foreign arbitral award will be recognised and enforceable in Thailand only if it is made in accordance with bilateral or multi-lateral treaties or conventions to which Thailand is a party of or has acceded to. Currently, these treaties and conventions are the 1927 Convention on the Enforcement of Foreign Arbitral Awards made at Geneva (Geneva Convention); the 1958 Convention on the Recognition and Enforcement of Foreign Arbitral Awards (New York Convention); and the Treaty of Amity and Economic Relations between the Kingdom of Thailand and the United States of America.