Successfully arbitrating disputes

While the UAE provides some of the best and the most lucrative business opportunities to entrepreneurs all over the world, such opportunities come with their own set of disputes between employees, competitors and other corporate entities. Usually, mediation and negotiation techniques help in such matters. However, in disputes where mediation and negotiation techniques do not work, arbitration is often the most effective option being one of the less expensive ways to settle a dispute between parties.

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Four Ways to Settle Construction Disputes

It’s unlikely to be in the construction industry for very long and not run into a dispute. Disagreements between the parties — owners and contractors, contractors and subcontractors, subcontractors and supply houses — can crop up when one party fails to meet its obligations, contractual or otherwise. Sometimes these controversies result from a clear breach of a contract provision; other times they are simply the consequence of a party’s reaction to or disregard of a particular issue.

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