Topic: EF/English First Thailand

[Jon]

2 whole weeks and the case still has not finished.

Tuesday to Friday of week 1 EF’s franchisee gave his testimony. He had no witnesses and no documents to support his story. God it was boring. He even started crying a few times.

Tuesday to Friday of week 2 the former DOS gave his testimony. He had 3 witnesses (all Thai) plus himself. A long list of documents was presented to support his case. Time ran out before he could be cross examined by the plaintiff’s solicitor. Therefore the case has been postponed to March.

A few funny occurrences:

The judge still wishes the case to be compromised and told the defendant (former EF DOS) that he should consider that the reason he is in court is because of past karma from this or a previous life. Interesting comment from a judge!

EF’s representative’s girlfriend sat through the court proceedings busily writing in a notebook the same word over and over again. Later I was told this was a black magic spell against me.

EF’s representative also told the court that the former EF DOS was writing a diary of his actions on the internet. He made a complaint to the court, but the judge said irrelevant to this case and he would need to make a separate complaint. So, he reads this!

[Topper]

Thanks for the update!

Keep them coming and keep up the fight!

[bomha]

Jon, do you think your opponent will take the judge's advice and offer to compromise?  Are you willing to strike a deal?

[Jon]

Not willing to strike a deal at this stage. During a previous compromise meeting he offered a decent amount of cash to allow himself to withdraw. I think he didn't want the investigation to begin. It has begun and it's now probably too late for him to withdraw because the proverbial cat is out of the bag. When EF's head office discovered he had sued a former teacher for defamation a couple of years back, they did pressure him to withdraw then, but the DOS refused.

The only way the DOS can obtain sufficient evidence to properly punish EF's representative is to use this court case to subpoena contracts/documents and witnesses.