When a commercial real estate or other business transaction leads to a dispute, the parties sometimes prefer to arbitrate rather than litigate. As one of many reasons for that, they like the ...

If a dispute arises between an employee and his employer, either party can raise a court action to resolve the issue. However, court actions are costly and time-consuming. Arbitration is an ...

In the blizzard of paperwork needed to get into a nursing home or assisted living, some residents unwittingly surrender the right to a day in court. By Paula Span What the Jinks family wanted was to ...

A steady decline in union membership has led union organizers and sympathetic politicians to introduce "labor reform" legislation designed to make it easier for unions to gain representation rights ...

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The intersection of legal reasoning and philosophical logic is rarely traversed, yet this journey offers profound insights into the conceptual underpinnings of legal doctrine. Take for instance, the ...

To litigate or to arbitrate, that is the question. Before we can answer that, still there are a lot of things to look at and to unpack in deciding which is favourable over the other. In this article, ...

“Choosing between mediation, arbitration, or litigation will depend on what a specific party is seeking…. Your best option will solely depend on the complexity of the issues, what you seek as a ...

Here is an analysis of the practical implications arising from the recent judgment of the Supreme Court whereby it upheld the arbitrability of landlord-tenant disputes. Previously, in 2017 the court ...