Bob’s adversary Roger was puzzled by the arbitrator’s award. “I think we got what we wanted,” Roger told his client. But Roger was not sure. Why? The award said Roger’s client won. That surely was ...

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Undergraduate Student Government debated at length about a proposal that would grant ex-officio senate members voting rights during Wednesday’s caucus. Ex-officio senators are nominated by the USG ...

The University of Connecticut Undergraduate Student Government (USG) recently created an ex-officio senator position for veterans. This is good news for the underrepresented group of students, but ...

Arbitrators, as adjudicators of commercial disputes, have circumscribed authority. They are retained by the parties to resolve their disputes and for no other purpose. The doctrine of functus officio ...

The Singapore Court of Appeal has released its grounds for deciding that an arbitrator was functus officio with no jurisdiction to issue a further award in Voltas Ltd v. York International Pte Ltd ...