Choice of arbitrators must be wider
The independence and impartiality of arbitrators have been a contentious issue between feuding parties for long. This is even more intense when the government or its entities make the opposite party sign agreements, in which the arbitrators would be their own officers. Two years ago, the Arbitration and Conciliation Act was amended to quell such preliminary disputes so that arbitration gets going. The Act now contains lists of persons who are ineligible to be arbitrators, like those who have conflict of interest. This has not totally stopped litigation over choice of arbitrators, as shown
