Business Diplomacy: Is An Agreement To Arbitrate Privately A Deal The Courts Will Enforce?

Court’s decision should reflect the parties’ deal. When business entities cannot reach agreement to resolve a dispute with discussions, they have a few logical options: negotiation, mediation, or litigation (whether in public court or in private arbitration). Typically, those options are tried in that order. In the recent Alberta Court of Queen’s Bench case in Inter Pipeline […]