In Zimbabwe the most recognised arbitral institutions are the Commercial Arbitration Centre in Harare and the Africa Institute for Mediation and Arbitration.
Invariably, the institution’s role in an institutional arbitration includes, among other things, the following:
l receiving the request for arbitration from the claimant and serving it on the respondent;
l appointing the arbitrators where the arbitration agreement empowers the institution to do so or in default of the parties’ ability to do;