Presiding Judge, Court of Appeal for Specialized Cases

Montri Sillapamahabundit graduated from Thammasat University with his first law degree in 1986 and was admitted to the Thai Bar Association as a permanent member a year later. He pursued further studies at Chulalongkorn University, where he earned a master’s degree in business law. He entered to the Thai judiciary as a judge trainee in 1992, and after three years of judiciary practice, he was granted a scholarship to pursue law studies abroad at in the LLM programs at American University’s Washington College of Law and Cornell Law School. Judge Sillapamahabundit returned to Thailand in 1998 and was assigned to the Office of the Judiciary, where he spent four years drafting and amending laws as well as consulting and making recommendations on bills distributed to the judiciary by the Parliament and Government. He was then assigned to the Alternative Dispute Resolution Office, where he helped develop modern court-annexed mediation as well as a judicial reform program. In 2007 he returned to the bench and worked as a chief judge for three years before returning to the Office of the Judiciary in 2010. At this time, he worked as an executive director of the Thai Arbitration Institute, a major arbitration institute in Thailand. Justice Sillapamahabundit was promoted to the upper court in the court of appeal in 2015 and rotated to several courts in Bangkok. He now works at the Court of Appeal as a presiding justice in the intellectual property and international trade section.