Bring Me Your Disputes And I Will Set You Free

The Code: The Legal Mind

Process: Proof and Principles

Litigation Process ‐ The Universal Main Event

Litigation Process – Class Action

Arbitration – Process Globalization

1. An existing dispute (not merely an unresolved issue);
2. Parties choose neutral decision‐maker under an arbitration agreement;
3. Expressed intention in the agreement that the decision be binding and be made in a judicial or quasi‐judicial manner;
4. The hearing be impartial and fair;
5. The decision in the hearing be based on evidence and argument;
6. International arbitration (not defined in model code – see federal and provincial Acts): parties have places of business in different States when arbitration agreement is made; one of the following is outside the State where parties have places of business – place of arbitration, place for performance of obligations, place where subject matter of dispute is most closely connected; commercial arbitration acts that adopt or