MoJ Certified Legal Translation Shop — Civil Procedure Code §46 Compliant
Five signature SKUs delivered by translators listed with the Ministry of Justice Rights and Liberties Protection Department registry — sealed with the translator's round-seal on every page and delivered with a Statement of Accuracy Thai courts and ministries accept directly.
MoJ translator registry · round-seal + Statement of Accuracy · Civil Procedure Code §46
MoJ-Certified Legal Translation — Standard 3–5 Business Day Tier
A Thai court, a Bangkok land office and a foreign consulate will each reject a bilingual exhibit that does not carry a translator's identifiable seal and a signed accuracy statement bound to a name on the Ministry of Justice's own translator registry. This tier is the everyday workhorse for that requirement: a legal document rendered TH↔EN inside three to five business days by a translator listed with the Ministry of Justice Rights and Liberties Protection Department, sealed with the translator's registered round-seal, and delivered with a Statement of Accuracy on the translator's letterhead ready to sit in a Thai court exhibit binder or a consular file.
THB 800–1,500 · 3–5 วันทำการ
Bilingual exhibit index · Civil Procedure Code §46 compliant · Thai court binder-ready
Court-Bundle Translation — Complaint, Answer, Judgment & Exhibit Pack
A cross-border commercial dispute that lands in a Thai Civil Court or the Central Intellectual Property and International Trade Court almost always arrives with a mixed-language exhibit stack: pleadings in Thai, contracts and correspondence in English, corporate filings in a third jurisdiction. This SKU is scoped for exactly that filing: the complaint, the answer, the material exhibits and the eventual judgment rendered TH↔EN by a Ministry-of-Justice-listed translator working alongside a Thai-qualified litigator who tags each exhibit against the bilingual exhibit index the receiving court expects.
THB 1,500–3,500 · 5–10 วันทำการ
NDA · JV · shareholders' agreement · MoJ round-seal per-page · execution-copy binding
Long-Form Commercial Contract Translation — Bilingual Execution Copy
A joint-venture agreement, a shareholders' arrangement or a cross-border NDA that will be executed in Bangkok almost always needs a bilingual execution copy — one column Thai, one column English — sealed for evidentiary use should either side later have to enforce it in a Thai court or a foreign tribunal. This SKU delivers that bilingual execution copy: the operative English drafted alongside a Ministry-of-Justice-registered translator who cross-checks every defined term, every clause number and every schedule reference against the Thai rendering, then seals every page for court-ready use.
THB 1,200–2,500 · 5–7 วันทำการ
Civil / criminal / IP judgments · New York Convention exhibit-ready · MoJ round-seal
Thai Court Judgment Translation — Enforcement-Ready Foreign Rendering
A Thai court judgment that has to travel — for enforcement in Singapore, arbitration recognition in Hong Kong, or a follow-on securities filing in the United States — needs an English rendering that a foreign judge or arbitrator will read as an authentic reproduction of the Thai text. This SKU renders the full Thai judgment into English under a Ministry-of-Justice-registered translator's round-seal, preserves the Thai paragraph numbering the enforcing tribunal will cite against, and delivers the artefact bound in the format a New York Convention enforcement bundle expects.
THB 2,000–4,500 · 5–7 วันทำการ
General / specific POA · MoJ round-seal · ready for Land Office, Revenue, DBD desks
Power of Attorney Translation — Thai-Attorney Filing-Ready
A foreign principal empowering a Bangkok attorney-in-fact to sign at the Land Office, close a Revenue Department filing or lodge a Department of Business Development update needs a Thai power of attorney whose signature and seal a receiving desk will accept without a second call to the principal. This SKU renders the foreign-language POA into Thai (or vice versa) under a Ministry-of-Justice-registered translator's round-seal, so that the Thai receiving desk sees an artefact identified against the MoJ registry rather than a translator whose credentials it cannot verify on the spot.
THB 900–1,800 · 2–3 วันทำการ
Priority MoJ queue · 48-hour dispatch · same round-seal + Statement of Accuracy
MoJ-Certified Legal Translation — Express 2 Business Day Tier
A consular filing that has to reach the front-office window this Friday, a court-window drop-off scheduled for the middle of next week, or a bank onboarding call that will not proceed without a sealed Thai rendering — none of them will wait for the five-day standard queue. This tier compresses the same Ministry-of-Justice-registered translator delivery into forty-eight hours by promoting the file into a dedicated priority lane, without any drop in artefact quality: the round-seal, the Statement of Accuracy on the translator's letterhead and the MoJ registry number are identical to the standard SKU.
THB 1,200–2,200 · 2 วันทำการ
Intake before 10:00 ICT · dispatched by 18:00 · Bangkok messenger drop-off
MoJ-Certified Legal Translation — Same-Day Urgent Slot (≤ 5 Pages)
A visa interview scheduled tomorrow morning, an ex parte hearing lodged at the last minute, or a bank draft that has to close before the wire cut-off — a same-day artefact is worth the premium only when the receiving desk will still recognise it as authentic. This slot compresses the entire MoJ-registered pipeline into a single business day for filings up to five source pages: intake before 10:00 ICT, translator locked inside the first hour, sealed hardcopy in a messenger's hand by 18:00, no shortcut on the round-seal or the Statement of Accuracy.
THB 2,000–3,500 · Same-day (สูงสุด 5 หน้า)
Bang Rak / Lumpini / Thong Lo daily-log rendering · MoJ round-seal · insurer-ready
Thai Police Report Translation — Insurance & Consular Filing-Ready
A Bangkok police daily-log report — the bai jaeng khwam issued at Bang Rak, Lumpini or Thong Lo the morning after a stolen passport, a road-traffic incident or a hotel-room theft — has almost no evidentiary weight overseas unless the Thai narrative is rendered under a translator whose credentials the receiving insurer or consulate can verify. This SKU renders the daily-log page into English (or German, French, Japanese by arrangement) under a Ministry-of-Justice-registered translator's round-seal, so that the loss-adjuster or the replacement-passport officer sees the artefact they expect and not a walk-in translation shop's letterhead.
THB 900–1,800 · 2–3 วันทำการ
Civil & Commercial Code §1657–1658 wills · executor-ready bilingual rendering · MoJ round-seal
Thai Will & Testament Translation — Probate & Cross-Border Estate Filing
A Thai holographic will drawn under Civil and Commercial Code Section 1657, or a formal will executed at the amphoe under Section 1658, has to travel intact into an overseas probate court before a foreign executor can distribute the Thai estate to heirs abroad. This SKU renders the Thai will into English (or the language of the probate forum) under a Ministry-of-Justice-registered translator's round-seal, preserving the Thai clause numbering, the amphoe witnessing marks and the testator's own handwriting cues so the receiving probate registrar reads a rendering the Thai courts themselves would recognise.
THB 2,500–5,500 · 5–7 วันทำการ
DBD Nong Sor 3 · Articles of Association · board resolution · one MoJ seal across the pack
Corporate Package Translation — DBD Affidavit, Articles & Board Resolution Bundle
An inbound investor onboarding onto a Thai limited company, a foreign parent registering a Bangkok subsidiary at the Department of Business Development, or a Thai holding company opening a bank account at an overseas branch usually needs the same three artefacts rendered together: the DBD affidavit (Nong Sor 3), the articles of association, and the most recent board resolution authorising the transaction. This bundle renders all three into English under a single Ministry-of-Justice-registered translator so the defined terms — company name transliteration, directors' romanised names, share-class labels — stay consistent across every page the receiving desk will read side-by-side.
THB 18,000–35,000 · On-demand (SLA 48 ชม.)
Complete bilingual court binder · numbered exhibits · Civil Procedure Code §46 & Arbitration Act §21
Court Bundle Translation — Pleadings, Exhibits & Skeleton Argument Pack
A commercial matter that has grown from a single complaint into a multi-lever litigation file — pleadings, expert reports, correspondence exhibits, a skeleton argument and a witness statement stack — needs one translator holding the terminological line across every page rather than a patchwork of freelancers whose defined-term choices drift by exhibit. This bundle assigns a single Ministry-of-Justice-registered translator to the entire matter, delivers a numbered bilingual binder in the format the Thai civil or IP court front-office window expects, and holds the same translator on retainer through the eventual judgment so cross-references between the pleadings and the reasoning survive intact.
THB 6,500–12,000 · 10–14 วันทำการ
Request for arbitration · statement of claim · expert reports · Arbitration Act §21 & UNCITRAL Model Law art. 22
Arbitration Dispute Translation — THAC / SIAC / HKIAC Filing-Ready Rendering
A cross-border commercial arbitration seated in Bangkok, Singapore or Hong Kong that spans Thai-language contracts, Thai-witness statements and English-language procedural pleadings needs a translation stream that a tribunal will trust as authentic without a separate authenticity challenge inside the merits hearing. This SKU renders the entire arbitration file — request for arbitration, statement of claim, statement of defence, expert reports, correspondence exhibits and hearing transcripts — under a single Ministry-of-Justice-registered translator whose seal a Thai-seated tribunal reads as prima-facie authentic and whose Statement of Accuracy foreign-seated tribunals accept as the equivalent authenticity artefact for a Thai-language exhibit.
THB 2,500–5,000 · 7–14 วันทำการ
Practical guidance and pitfalls — Ordering MoJ-registered legal translation — Practitioner Notes (English)
A translation destined for a Thai court file or a ministry desk is judged on more than wording: the translator's standing, the statement of accuracy, the pagination and the way exhibits are labelled all form part of what the receiving officer inspects. These notes cover the decisions that keep a legal bundle acceptable on first filing.
Before you start (6 points)
- Critical
Translate the whole instrument, including annexes and stamps
Courts read a document as a unit. Schedules, endorsements, official stamps and handwritten marginal notes belong in the translation with a description of what they are, so the reader can see that nothing in the original was left unrendered.
Court filingsCourts of Justice, Thailand — filing of documents in a foreign language - Critical
Fix party and entity names against their official records first
Company names should follow the DBD record and individual names the passport or house registration. Agreeing that table before translation begins prevents the same party appearing under two spellings across a bundle.
Commercial mattersDepartment of Business Development, Ministry of Commerce, Thailand — company records - Take care
Send an exhibit list showing how documents relate
Knowing that an exhibit is referred to by number inside a pleading lets the translation carry the same references throughout. Bundles translated document-by-document without that map often need renumbering after the fact.
Litigation bundles - Take care
Lock defined terms once and apply them across the file
Contracts define terms deliberately; a synonym introduced for variety changes meaning. A glossary agreed at the outset keeps defined terms, clause headings and cross-references stable through revisions.
Contracts - Good to know
Say early whether the translation continues to legalisation
A translation that will be legalised or apostilled for use abroad is prepared and bound differently from one filed domestically. Declaring the onward route at the briefing stage avoids re-issuing the certified set later.
Overseas useDepartment of Consular Affairs, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Thailand — legalisation of translations - Good to know
Supply the clearest available original, not a photograph of a screen
Seals, signatures and small print carry meaning in a legal file. A flat scan at full page size lets those elements be described accurately instead of marked illegible, which a reviewing officer may treat as a gap.
All ordersMinistry of Justice, Thailand — Rights and Liberties Protection Department (translator registry)
What gets documents rejected (6 points)
- Critical
Splitting one bundle between unrelated translators to save time
Speed gained by parallel work is usually lost to inconsistent terminology and mismatched party names. Where a bundle must be split, it needs a single reviser reconciling the whole set before certification.
Large bundles - Critical
Editing a certified translation after it has been sealed
The certification attaches to the exact text that was sealed. Any correction, however small, requires a fresh certified issue; an amended file circulating alongside the sealed one invites a challenge to authenticity.
All ordersMinistry of Justice, Thailand — Rights and Liberties Protection Department (translator registry) - Critical
Submitting a machine draft for light editing as a legal translation
Legal drafting depends on scope words, conditions and negations that automated output reorders silently. A file that will be relied on in a proceeding is translated and revised as legal text, not polished from raw output.
Court filingsContracts - Take care
Carrying Buddhist-era dates across without conversion or note
Thai documents commonly use the Buddhist era. A translation that neither converts nor annotates the year can put a limitation period or a term of years out by centuries in the reader's mind.
All ordersCourts of Justice, Thailand — filing of documents in a foreign language - Good to know
Adding documents to a bundle after review has started
A late addition can introduce a term already translated differently elsewhere. Grouping additions into a defined second batch, with a reconciliation pass, is safer than dropping pages into work in progress.
Litigation bundles - Take care
Assuming every desk accepts the same certified format
Requirements differ between a court registry, a ministry and a foreign mission — some want the original attached, others a specific statement wording. Confirming the receiving desk's instruction beats reusing a format that worked elsewhere.
Route selectionDepartment of Consular Affairs, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Thailand — legalisation of translations
- Ministry of Justice, Thailand — Rights and Liberties Protection Department (translator registry) · checked 2026-08-04
- Courts of Justice, Thailand — filing of documents in a foreign language · checked 2026-08-04
- Department of Consular Affairs, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Thailand — legalisation of translations · checked 2026-08-04
- Department of Business Development, Ministry of Commerce, Thailand — company records · checked 2026-08-04
This guidance summarises published rules and notices of the authorities cited, as at the review date shown. Requirements at the receiving office can change, so always confirm with that office before you proceed. For scope and fees, please contact our team by phone, LINE or email.
Last reviewed 2026-08-04 by NYC Language Institute — Legal Translation Desk