What's the difference between arbitration and litigation?

Arbitration


Definition:

  • (n.) The hearing and determination of a cause between parties in controversy, by a person or persons chosen by the parties.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The Weinstein Company, which Harvey owns with his brother Bob, lost rights to the title on Tuesday following a ruling by the Motion Picture Association of America's arbitration board.
  • (2) However, an amended version of the new contract for England’s 55,000 junior doctors has now finally been agreed, after 10 days of talks overseen by the Advisory, Conciliation and Arbitration Service (Acas).
  • (3) Had July’s original Fifa judgment not been watered down by the court of arbitration for sport then he would not even have been permitted to train while the ban was in place.
  • (4) A Football Association Rule K hearing could see the Italian take the League to an independent arbitration tribunal, which may prove a lengthy process.
  • (5) After the court of arbitration for sport upheld the ban but reduced the sanction from six years to four, Platini again protested his innocence and railed against a “profound injustice”.
  • (6) On Thursday, the court of arbitration for sport upheld the ban on 68 Russian track and field athletes from the Rio games made by athletics’ governing body, the IAAF.
  • (7) Nevertheless a great deal of progress was made over the recognition criteria, with agreement reached on all points except the method of appointments to the new regulator, over which the Guardian had reservations, and the arbitration service, which the regional press and magazine editors feared could result in unsustainable cost.
  • (8) They won't put to rights the arbitration procedures that local editors fear; they'll continue to debate the rights and wrongs of exemplary damages till kingdom come.
  • (9) Appearing before the court on Tuesday, Australia’s solicitor general, Justin Gleeson SC, said Brandis had previously directed that the material not be communicated to anyone involved in conducting the arbitration.
  • (10) The arbitration hearing before a former federal judge will determine whether the NFL overstepped its authority in modifying Rice’s two-game suspension, making it indefinite after video of the running back hitting his wife – then his fiancee – was released by TMZ.
  • (11) Then Fredric Horowitz, baseball's arbitrator, will have 25 games to come to his judgement.
  • (12) Last week, the suspended Fifa president and his Uefa counterpart lost appeals over their provisional suspensions and plan to take their cases to the court of arbitration for sport.
  • (13) The case dates back to 2008, when Lagarde, as Sarkozy's finance minister, ordered private arbitration in a long-running business dispute between Tapie and the French state.
  • (14) Major League Baseball does not announce positive tests and penalties in drug cases involving initial positives until all arbitration is concluded.
  • (15) All of this is being set aside, as the new agreements call for private, non-transparent, and very expensive arbitration.
  • (16) It does not address the substance of the issues at hand – neither the arbitral tribunal's jurisdiction nor Mauritius's claim.
  • (17) Ipso will include a standards and compliance arm with investigative powers and an arbitration service to offer a speedy and inexpensive alternative to the libel courts.
  • (18) "A woman with such a marriage would have no choice but to go to a sharia tribunal … But it's not the way arbitration is supposed to work."
  • (19) The detail is still being worked on, he said, but any magazine or newspaper that does not comply with regulation will effectively be preventing a complainant from using a cheaper, royal charter-approved arbitration service and so forcing them to take their case to court.
  • (20) What is proposed is that the new body should contain an arbitration procedure that will be quicker and more open than the commission, and cheaper and more accessible than the law.

Litigation


Definition:

  • (n.) The act or process of litigating; a suit at law; a judicial contest.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) A preliminary "profile" of the patient with low back pain who would likely benefit from manual therapy included acute symptom onset with less than a 1-month duration of symptoms, central or paravertebral pain distribution, no previous exposure to spinal manipulation, and no pending litigation or workers' compensation.
  • (2) The clinical evaluation requires knowledge of the characteristics of physician substance abuse, of emotional disturbances including suicidality, of the emotional impact of litigation, and of the underlying causes of such unethical conduct as inappropriate prescribing of controlled substances and sexual contact with patients.
  • (3) RBS says Green & Co is the "practising name of solicitors employed by the Royal Bank of Scotland Group", while Lloyds says SCM is "part of the in-house litigation department of Lloyds Banking Group ".
  • (4) Its response was an “engagement and litigation strategy coordinated and aligned across the Group”.
  • (5) The litigation revealed that Mr Mercer, who had a history of infiltrating peace groups such as CND, had disguised his dealings with BAE from his home in Loughborough.
  • (6) "While it is true that legal aid is higher per capita in the UK than in almost all other countries in Europe, our judicial and court costs are much lower per capita," he told the Harbour Litigation Funding lecture.
  • (7) Such a complication tends to be the subject of litigation and medicolegal assessment.
  • (8) Some psychiatrists misuse theoretical concepts beyond their generally accepted dimensions in an attempt to support a conclusion favorable to a litigant or defendant.
  • (9) A specialist in commercial litigation,Vos, 56 next week, also took a strong interest in widening access to the legal profession, chairing the Social Mobility Foundation and advising the last Labour government.
  • (10) We regret this situation has resulted in litigation, however it is our sincere hope that the matter can be resolved amicably.
  • (11) That lesson also is for Labor when it comes to climate: we have got to re-litigate the case and I don’t think Labor was expecting that we’d have to go back to first principles,” Shorten said.
  • (12) Jeff Zent, a spokesman for Dalrymple, said it's the governor's "standing policy not to comment on litigation".
  • (13) Consequently, dentists may find it helpful to be aware of the somewhat unique nature of litigation arising out of professional services provided with respect to periodontal disease.
  • (14) The Yankees president, Randy Levine, and Cashman had a conference call with Tim Lentych, the head athletic trainer at the player development complex in Tampa; Rodriguez; and Jordan Siev, co-head of the US commercial litigation group at Reed Smith.
  • (15) The basis of workers' compensation legislation involves workers giving up their common-law right to litigate for losses owing to occupational injuries (including pain and suffering) in exchange for guaranteed protection against income losses.
  • (16) In 90% of patients, litigation was in process or under consideration.
  • (17) He concludes that a sensitive and effective relationship between treaters and patients remains the best safeguard against malpractice litigation.
  • (18) The only reason they are offering to apologise now is because 14 civil litigant cases are currently going though the courts."
  • (19) To those physicians who have eliminated obstetrics from their practice in the past five years, fear of litigation and increasing malpractice insurance costs were significantly more important issues than to their colleagues who had stopped doing obstetrics prior to 1976.
  • (20) This agreement, if approved, avoids the time and cost of litigation and allows the city to continue its focus to ensure constitutional policing and court practices, and thus provides these benefits to the citizens of Ferguson,” the statement said.