What is the effect of filing and enforcing an Arbitration Award under s. 29 of the Arbitration Act?
British Columbia, Canada
The following excerpt is from Geary v Geary, 2017 BCSC 1063 (CanLII):
The parties argued the appeal on its merits. However, during the course of preparing these reasons, the issue of the effect of filing and enforcing the Arbitration Award under s. 29 of the Arbitration Act arose. In McLaren v. Casey, 2016 BCSC 169, Jenkins J. was faced with an appeal of a family law Arbitration Award, coincidentally by the same arbitrator as the case at bar and concerning the same mode of “last best offer” arbitration.
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