Abstract:
The objective of this research is to emphasize on the legal issues of quoting legal fees for litigation and suggestions on how this said issue can be resolved. Thus, legal fees for litigation is an income of the lawyer who performs the legal service and, at the same time, a legal profession is one of the organs in the judiciary system. Maintaining fairness and providing justice for the general public is the main intention of the legal profession, not considering the legal fees to be of any profit. Therefore, the conflict between personal interest of the lawyer providing the service and public interest is sometimes unavoidable. The quoting legal fees for litigation in some cases may seem to be inappropriate but once looked at seriously in all aspects, the benefit may be of the person involved in the legal dispute. The rate or cost of a lawyer is also a cause to many problems. In that way, this research tries to suggest various solutions to the problems arose and the rate of lawyer fees that is strictly controlled by the law, which is the cause to the problems in order for the lawyers to perform their duties effectively as an organ of the judiciary system and remain profitable as a legal professional in providing the legal service with the price of a legal professional.From analytical studies made regarding the quoting legal fees for litigation in various countries abroad, i.e. Great Britain, United States of America, Germany and France. After considering the strengths and weaknesses, it was found that the Contingent Fee or No Win, No Fee theory should be applied in Thailand for some legal cases or in some situations. Since giving legal assistance is quite restricted, which is an obstacle in gibing legal service to the public, giving legal service is quite inefficient and ineffective. However, employing the said theory should be adapted to the Thai society, which in other word could be applied to some cases i.e. tort cases with many victims, etc. In the part of the Law Society, there must be amendments to the regulations to be stricter in order to be able to truly and efficiently supervise the ethics of lawyers.