The eight plaintiffs and Surapol Kongchanthuek and a colleague after the final ruling in the Klity Creek poisoning case on Thursday. The final ruling read out by the Kanchanaburi court on Thursday reduced the compensation to 20.2 million baht. (Photo by Piyarach Chongcharoen)The Supreme Court on Thursday reduced a compensation claim in the Klity Creek poisoning scandal from 29 million baht to 20 million baht, and ended a 13-year legal battle. The court ordered it to pay 4.2 million baht compensation to the plaintiffs. The defendants brought the case to the Appeal Court which later ruled in favour of the Klity residents and raised the amount of compensation to 29.5 million baht.

Source: Bangkok Post July 14, 2016 14:59 UTC