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ARTICLE · 10 AUGUST 2018

Construction Arbitration Know-How: Australia

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This extract provides details of Australian construction arbitration practice, as part of the Global Arbitration Review.

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This piece is an extract from GAR's Construction Arbitration Know-how, first published in July 2018. The whole publication is available here.

GAR's Construction Arbitration Know-how provides reliable cross-jurisdictional insight to help cement the building blocks of international practice.

Select experienced practitioners answer commonly asked questions for key jurisdictions so allowing readers to be better-placed to solve the challenges of their working days.

The content of this article is intended to provide a general guide to the subject matter. Specialist advice should be sought about your specific circumstances.

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