Not exact matches
Did signing the forced
arbitration clause affect your
decision or discourage you in any way
from coming forward?
Decisions: • AT&T Mobility vs. Concepcion: Held that a company's
arbitration clause prevents its customers
from suing in a class action for fraud.
Supervisor Howard Phillips cites the fact that this year the town is caught between more mandated costs
from the state and county, and a potentially costly
decision from a binding
arbitration decision with the Police PBA.
However a statement
from Mr Woyome's office said the
decision as per ICC's article 6 (4) means that the case does not meet minimum requirement of the ICC for
arbitration.
Appeals
from commercial
arbitration decisions are narrowly circumscribed under the
Arbitration Act.
In keeping with the pro-enforcement bias of the New York Convention, article V (1)(c) provides «that part of the award which contains
decisions on matters submitted to
arbitration may be recognized and enforced», provided that matters properly within the scope of the
arbitration agreement «can be separated
from those not so submitted.»
The
decision ends more than eight years of
arbitration which began in July 2004, when the International Centre for Settlement of Investment Disputes («ICSID») received a request
from Vannessa Ventures for
arbitration against Venezuela under ICSID's Additional Facility Rules.
Most notably, the landmark
decision AT&T Mobility LLC v. Concepcion held that the Federal
Arbitration Act of 1925 preempts other laws that restrict companies
from requiring customers to rely on mandatory
arbitration.
2014 has started with a bang
from an
arbitration perspective with the
decision in S v S [2014] EWHC 7 (Fam), [2014] All ER (D) 63 (Jan), involving the conversion of an
arbitration award to a financial consent order and comments
from Sir James Munby that «an arbitral award is surely of its nature even stronger than a simple agreement between the parties» and «the judge will not need to play the detective unless something leaps off the page to indicate that something has gone so seriously wrong in the arbitral process as fundamentally to vitiate the arbitral award».
Furthermore, an emergency
decision ceases to be binding if an
arbitration procedure is not commenced within 30 days, alternatively the case has not been referred to an arbitrator or arbitral tribunal within 90 days,
from the date of the emergency
decision.
As Slaw readers know, effective April 1, 2008, Canada Law Book is pulling its law reports and case summaries
from Quicklaw Lexis Nexis -LRB-(Dominion Law Reports (since 1912) Canadian Criminal Cases (since 1898) Labour Arbitration Cases (since 1948) Canadian Patent Reporter (since 1941) All - Canada Weekly Summaries Weekly Criminal Bulletin Canadian Law List Alberta Civil and Criminal Cases Federal Court of Appeal
Decisions BC Civil Cases BC Criminal Cases BC Labour
Arbitrations BC Labour Relations Board
Decisions Canadian Labour Arbitration Summaries Saskatchewan Civil and Criminal Cases Supreme Court of Canada
Decisions Manitoba Civil and Criminal Cases)-RRB-
A unique feature of mediation which makes it different
from litigation,
arbitration or counseling, is that the mediator does not render any
decision or recommend any action.
Of note, Alan and his co-counsel Christopher Riggs were recently successful before the Divisional Court in reversing an
arbitration decision on the 1200 return to work grievances, where the Court set aside the arbitrator's
decision granting extra compensation to faculty members following their return
from the 2006 academic strike.
In an
arbitration between the Corporation of Quinte West and CUPE, Local 759, (
decision released on October 21, 2011), Arbitrator Paula Knopf considered whether an employer has an obligation to accommodate an employee who suffers
from allergies that are caused, at least in part, by scented products in the workplace.
We also expect the number of disputes submitted to
arbitration to grow, given the increasing delay of
decisions from the judicial courts against the relative promptness of
arbitration decisions.»
KBR's
decision represents the first significant legal fallout
from the «Franken amendment,» which protects defense workers
from being forced to accept
arbitration after suffering sexual assault, battery or discrimination.
Christian Stuerwald and Mick Smith provide brief comments on an interesting case recently decided by the High Court, in which the High Court confirmed an
arbitration tribunal's
decision that the success fee a claimant pays to his litigation funder is recoverable
from the losing defendant in certain circumstances.
(c) If the parties have not made a
decision as to the number of arbitrators on the respective Arbitral Tribunal within thirty (30) calendar days
from receipt of the
arbitration request: decide on whether one or three arbitrators shall be appointed by the Governing Board (Art. 2 (2) of the Rules).
The court held that, under s. 142, «the courts have no jurisdiction to deal with coverage disputes, given that there is mandatory
arbitration set up by s. 142 «In reaching this conclusion the Master cited a previous
decision from a BC Supreme Court Judge where it was held that «the statute imposes a mandatory forum for the resolution of these disputes, and this Court is excluded
from the process `.
International Commercial
Arbitration: International commercial
arbitration provides parties
from different legal, national and cultural backgrounds with neutral ground, flexible procedures and independent
decision makers to solve their disagreements, often confidentially.
Generally, the change
from a correctness standard to a reasonableness standard will undoubtedly result in the
decisions of arbitrators being granted much greater deference such that greater emphasis will need to be placed on the conduct of the initial private
arbitration itself.
A final and binding award, therefore, precludes the successful party
from bringing the same claim (s) again, either in a fresh
arbitration or before the national courts, and precludes both parties
from contradicting the
decision of the arbitral tribunal on a question of law or fact decided by the award (Sun Life Insurance Company of Canada and others v The Lincoln National Life Insurance Company [2006] 1 All ER (Comm) 675; Injazat Technology Capital Ltd v Najafi [2012] EWHC 4171 (Comm)-RRB-.
On August 4, 2016, the Ontario Court of Appeal released its
decision in Intact v. Allstate [1] and changed the correctness standard of review for appeals
from private
arbitrations to one...
(6) An appeal tribunal appointed by the Centre pursuant to Rule 43 shall decide the appeal
from the
arbitration tribunal's
decision under subrule (4) as soon as is reasonably possible after receiving the appeal and according to such procedures as the appeal tribunal considers appropriate.
Filling a long - felt need expressed by the labour
arbitration community, the authors have selected leading cases
from among the thousands of
decisions issued over the years by arbitrators and the courts.
● However, if there are competing foreign court proceedings, nothing in the
decision or the Judgments Regulation prevents a London
arbitration from being brought or continued.
Enmax Energy Corp. v. TransAlta Generation Partnership 2015 ABCA 383
Arbitration — Estoppel Summary: The appellant appealed a chambers judge's
decision where he held that the parties to an
arbitration were not bound by a prior
arbitration award involving the same parties, that a party (in this case, the respondent) was not estopped
from taking certain positions in the current
arbitration as a result of the prior
arbitration decision, and that the doctrines of res judicata and issue estoppel did not apply to
arbitration awards.
Apart
from labour
arbitration cases and securities commission
decisions, it is questionable as to whether there is there any need to duplicate this effort and offer the same content in the major online services.
This
arbitration decision appears to differ
from HRTO's stance where it looks to what the employer knew or ought to have known to trigger liability.
On January 13, the Supreme Court agreed to review
decisions from three federal appellate courts that reached different conclusions regarding whether class action waivers in mandatory
arbitration agreements between employees and...
«It's a similar story in # 6 New Jersey, where bad high court
decisions have boosted consumer litigation and undermined
arbitration agreements in seemingly lawful contracts, and a lax standard for expert testimony continues to attract many products liability plaintiffs
from across the country.
There often is no appeal
from arbitration, and beware if the choice of individual to make the
decision is up to the company and not you!
In only one case was a
decision made that «good faith» negotiation had not occurred, and this involved a situation where the grantee had made little attempt to engage with the native title party and had made clear that it was participating in the RTN process only so that it could proceed to
arbitration by the Tribunal... these findings strongly suggest that grantee parties have little to fear
from the
arbitration process... Unless they engage in behaviour that patently demonstrates the absence of an intention to engage in negotiation, they appear unlikely to be required to re-commence the RTN process with a consequent delay in project development.
In family
arbitration you and your partner will appoint an arbitrator, who will make a
decision that will be final and binding between the parties, on any financial and property disputes arising
from family relationships.
In family
arbitration you and your partner appoint an arbitrator, who will make a
decision that will be final and binding between the parties, on any financial and property disputes arising
from family relationships.
Mediation is different
from arbitration as the couple is trying to discuss the issues amongst themselves to come to agreements, rather than have an arbitrator make
decisions for them.
While an ethics or
arbitration hearing panel would make the
decision, it seems clear
from your situation that the change in cooperative compensation made by the listing broker after you submitted the purchase offer would not change the amount you were already entitled to in this transaction.
The allegations, findings, and
decisions rendered in ethics and
arbitration hearings are confidential and should not be reported or published by the Board, any member of a tribunal, or any party under any circumstances except those established in the Code of Ethics and
Arbitration Manual of the National Association as
from time to time amended.
If the
arbitration award is confirmed by the Board of Directors following the conduct of the limited procedural review, the nonprevailing party shall have an additional fifteen (15) days
from the transmittal of the Directors»
decision to institute an appropriate legal challenge to the validity of the
arbitration award.
While
arbitration awards may, at times, involve significant sums of money, they differ
from the
decisions rendered by ethics hearing panels in two significant ways.
After fifteen (15) days
from the transmittal of the Directors»
decision, if written notice of a suit challenging the validity of the
arbitration award has not been received by the Board, the funds shall be released
from the escrow or trust account and paid to the prevailing party.
The court addressed the standard of review for: (1)
arbitration proceedings, and (2) appeals
from judicial
decisions thereon.
a) Owner shall indemnify Broker and hold Broker harmless
from losses, damages, costs and expenses of any nature, including attorney's fees and
from liability to any person, that Broker incurs because of (1) Owner's negligence, representations, misrepresentations, actions or inactions, (2) the use of a lock box, (3) the existence of undisclosed material facts about the Property, or (4) a court or
arbitration decision that a broker who was not compensated in connection with a transaction is entitled to compensation
from Broker.
The materials presented to the Hearing Panel when the Hearing Panel made its
decision to dismiss together with any party's written rationale challenging the panel's reasons for dismissal and the dismissal itself will be presented to the appeal panel comprised of a minimum of five (5) members (who did not previously sit in review of the
arbitration request)
from the parties» Boards to be appointed by the Boards» Presidents.
(d) If either party to an
arbitration request believes that the Grievance Committee has incorrectly classified the issue presented by the request («mandatory» or «voluntary»
arbitration situation), the party has twenty (20) days
from transmittal of the Grievance Committee's
decision to file a written appeal of the Grievance Committee's determination using Form # A-20, Appeal of Grievance Committee (or Hearing Panel) Dismissal or Classification of
Arbitration Request.