Process treated as case
The procedural footing is built deliberately, not left to drift.
Domestic commercial arbitration as counsel, where the advantages of speed and privacy only hold if the process is built and run properly.
Arbitration is sold on speed, privacy, and a decision-maker the parties choose. Those advantages are real, but they are not automatic; a loosely run arbitration loses every one of them. The firm acts as counsel in domestic commercial arbitration and runs it as a disciplined process, from the appointment of the arbitrator to the award.
The firm treats the procedure as part of the case, because in arbitration the parties largely build their own process and a weak procedural footing costs more than it does in court. It is deliberate about the choice of arbitrator and the scope of their mandate. It writes for the tribunal it has, and it keeps the award enforceable by keeping the process clean.
The procedural footing is built deliberately, not left to drift.
Care over who is appointed and the scope of the mandate.
The process is kept clean so the result holds up.
A commercial dispute under a contract with an arbitration clause goes to a domestic tribunal. The firm acts as counsel, constitutes the tribunal, runs the evidence and submissions, and carries the matter to an award that is then confirmed.
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It usually can be, because the parties control the timetable and there is no general appeal, but only if the process is run with discipline; a poorly managed arbitration can be as slow as litigation.
Not in the ordinary sense; an award can be challenged or resisted only on the narrow grounds in the Arbitration Law, which is why most of the work is in getting the award right the first time.
By the parties, by the mechanism in their agreement, or, failing agreement, by the court; the choice matters because the arbitrator is the decision-maker the parties are stuck with.