Construction Arbitration
Arbitration has been a favourite method of resolving disputes in the construction and civil engineering industries for many decades, allowing disputes to be settled by experienced and appropriately qualified experts (as opposed to a judge in a court setting). What is construction arbitration? Strictly speaking, arbitration is another form of Alternative Dispute Resolution (ADR), being […]
Arbitration – Who Decides Whether to Arbitrate Claims: an Arbitrator or a Judge?
By Joshua Glazov on June 22, 2010Posted in Alternative Dispute Resolution, Arbitration Yesterday, the US Supreme Court ruled that when (a) there’s a dispute over whether the arbitration provision in a contract is enforceable, and (b) the contract says that the arbitrator should decide that question, then the arbitrator will decide that question. As the lawyers say: […]
