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Lawyers at war over future of arbitration legislation

Scottish lawyers are at loggerheads over whether new legislation which aims to reintroduce arbitration to Scotland will succeed.

Decades after arbitration was replaced by adjudication as the main means of resolving commercial disputes out of court, the Scottish Parliament’s Arbitration (Scotland) Act 2010, due to come into force this week, is tipped to bring the method back into favour.