Nidhi Eaosriwong, a social critic, said all legal interpretation should be carried out in a way that most benefits the people.

"Legal advisers need to be highly moral in order to use their knowledge of the law to ensure people stay close to justice," he said. "Their role now seems to be limited to interpreting the law in a way that enforces regulations on the people even more strictly."

Nidhi did not refer to any particular political situation when he called for good moral sense, although he did briefly cite the recent Supreme Administrative Court ruling that effectively killed off the government's effort to privatise Egat Plc.

Assoc Professor Chaiwat Satha-Anand, a Thammasat political scientist, called on political legal advisers to always recognise that all rules and regulations issued by those in power were meant to serve the people. Central bank Governor Pridiyathorn Devakula said he realised the importance of fair results in legal interpretations.