Arbitration Practice in Construction ContractsThis book considers each stage in the course of an arbitration in detail, from the claimant's decision to seek the means of resolving a dispute to the arbitrator's award, explaining clearly and concisely what is expected of the claimant, respondent and arbitrator and when. |
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Contents
Introduction | 1 |
Legal Framework | 2 |
Advantages of arbitration | 4 |
Disadvantages of arbitration | 6 |
Arbitration Agreements | 8 |
Ad Hoc agreements | 9 |
Constitution of tribunal | 10 |
Exclusion agreements | 12 |
The award | 56 |
Types of award | 59 |
Format of the award | 61 |
Interest | 65 |
Publication of the award | 66 |
Costs | 67 |
Responsibility for cost | 68 |
Offers to settle | 69 |
The Institution of Civil Engineers Arbitration Procedure 1983 | 17 |
The FCEC Form of Subcontract | 18 |
The FIDIC Conditions of Contract | 19 |
The Standard Form of Building Contract | 20 |
Powers of an arbitrator | 21 |
Conduct of proceedings | 22 |
The reluctant claimant | 24 |
Power to revise engineers decisions | 25 |
Appointment of the arbitrator | 26 |
Qualifications of the arbitrator | 27 |
Terms of the appointment | 28 |
Supplying vacancies | 29 |
Preliminaries | 31 |
The preliminary meeting | 32 |
Pleadings | 33 |
Amendments of pleadings | 35 |
The Scott Schedule | 36 |
Privilege | 37 |
Transcript of the hearing | 39 |
Conduct of interlocutory stages | 40 |
Liberty to apply | 41 |
Small claims | 42 |
Evidence | 43 |
Admissibility of evidence | 46 |
Proofs of evidence | 47 |
Burden and standard of proff | 48 |
The hearing | 49 |
Courtesy | 50 |
Procedure | 51 |
Failure to award cost | 71 |
Avoiding unnecessary taxation | 73 |
Cost of the award | 74 |
Finality of the award enforcement appeals | 75 |
Amendments to deal with costs | 76 |
Reasoned awards | 78 |
The contractor as claimant | 81 |
The acceptance | 83 |
Letters of intent | 84 |
The construction period | 85 |
Claims | 86 |
Disputes | 87 |
Selection of the arbitrator | 89 |
The preliminaries | 90 |
The hearing | 92 |
Request for reasoned award | 93 |
Upsetting the award | 94 |
Specimen documents | 95 |
The Arbitration Act 1950 | 142 |
Arbitration Act 1975 | 173 |
Arbitration Act 1979 | 178 |
The Rules of the Supreme Court Amendment No 3 1979 | 188 |
The Arbitration Act 1979 Commencement Order 1979 | 194 |
Interest tables | 196 |
Flow chart | 203 |
Bibliography | 205 |
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Bibliographic information
| Pealkiri | Arbitration Practice in Construction Contracts The Builder's bookshelf series |
| Autor | Douglas A. Stephenson |
| Edition | illustrated |
| Publisher | Taylor & Francis, 1993 |
| ISBN | 0419183302, 9780419183303 |
| Length | 213 pages |
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