Interest arbitration, or third-party arbitration, is an essential element of the Canadian industrial relations system, with considerable impact on the public interest, particularly in relation to public-sector industries. As an instrument of labour relations policy, interest arbitration has...

The adjudicatory authorities, viz., Labor Courts, Industrial Tribunals and National Tribunals, as provided under the Industrial Disputes Act are specialized Tribunals functioning outside the hierarchy of ordinary courts and are entrusted with the task of adjudication of industrial disputes. The...

The ancient Sumerians, Persians, Egyptians, Greeks, and Romans all had a tradition of arbitration. Arbitration “took its rise in the very infancy of Society” as a private and self-contained method, distinctive from litigation and not as a postscript to development of public courts. The...