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What does Form Arb 1 mean?
Form ARB1 is the standard IFLA family arbitration form by which the parties agree to arbitrate, appoint (or request the appointment of) an arbitrator, and define the scope and terms of the reference. In practice, signing the ARB1 starts the arbitration, identifies the issues to be determined (financial remedies or children matters), confirms the seat (usually England and Wales), applicable law and IFLA Rules, addresses confidentiality and fees, and records the parties’ agreement to be bound by the arbitral outcome, subject to the court’s jurisdiction and any statutory rights of challenge. Parties typically use it to facilitate conversion of a financial award into a consent order.
The current IFLA forms are ARB1FS (finance) and ARB1CS (children), the latter including safeguarding declarations. “Form ARB1” is not defined in legislation or case law; it is an IFLA scheme document used within the framework of the Arbitration Act 1996.
Usage is well established in England and Wales. Scotland, Northern Ireland and Ireland do not generally use the IFLA ARB1; instead, equivalent agreements to arbitrate are used under their own regimes (Arbitration (Scotland) Act 2010; Arbitration Act 1996 in Northern Ireland; Arbitration Act 2010 in Ireland), with the court’s welfare jurisdiction remaining paramount in children cases.
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