Dictionary of Arbitration Law & Practice

Out of Print

Arbitration law and practice in the United Kingdom have undergone rapid changes in recent years.

The enactment of the various statutory provisions, the judicial pronouncement of salient points of law when arbitral awards are appealed against and the general increasing awareness of the professional communities of what arbitration can offer, have contributed to dramatic development of arbitration law and practice generally.

A welcoming impact of this healthy development is that more and more words and phrases in the arbitration law and practice have their meanings determined and defined by the court and the statutes.

I have endeavoured to collect and select familiar and also less familiar terms in arbitration law and practice, as well as those terms connected therewith, and provide them with definitions or judicial interpretations, with the aim of presenting a readily accessible insight into arbitration law and practice.

This Dictionary, I believe, is the first book of its kind to devote exclusively to arbitration law and practice, and as such, it is hoped that it will be a tool and companion to all those who are interested in, or concerned with, arbitration...

The law is stated as at 31 August 1986.
Eric H. K. Lee
Institute of Advanced Legal Studies
University of London
31 August 1986