Arbitration (62)
HELD:
"The law is that where parties to an agreement make provision for arbitration before an action can be instituted in a Court of law, any aggrieved party must first seek the remedy available in the arbitration.
HELD:
"The Arbitrator, who is not an umpire, has the jurisdiction to decide only what has been submitted to him by the parties for determination.
HELD:
"An arbitration, according to Black's Law Dictionary 6th Edition page 105, is a process of dispute resolution in which a neutral third party called (arbitrator) renders a decision after hearing at which both parties have an opportunity to be heard.
HELD:
"From the evidence of CW5, it is glaring that one of the conditions to be fulfilled for the validity of the decision of the panel is that same be submitted to the Court.
HELD:
"Being the decision of a non-judicial body in the sense that it was not rendered by a Court created or recognized by Section 6 of the Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, 1999 (as amended), it is not automatic that a decision relied on as the outcome of a customary arbitration will create an estoppel.
HELD:
"Learned counsel for the Appellant contended that it is Section 4 of the Arbitration and Conciliation Act (ACA), not Section 5 thereof that is applicable to its application for stay of proceedings and referral to arbitration.