1. What is arbitration?

 Arbitration is a voluntary dispute resolution process i which one or more arbitrators, appointed
in accordance with the agreement of the parties or rules promulgated pursuant to the ADR act,
resolve a dispute by rendering an award.
2. Arbitration vs Mediation
In Arbitration, the ARBITRATOR is the one that decides the dispute and renders an arbitral award to
conclude the proceeding.

3. Who decides the disputes and renders an arbitral award to conclude arbitral proceeding?
-> Arbitrator

4. Who decides to enter into and execute a mediated settle agreement to conclude mediation
proceeding?
-> Mediator

5. As to role of evidence and merits of the case, arbitration is a...

-> merit/evidence-based form of ADR

6. How does an arbitral proceeding concluded?

-> A completed arbitral proceeding is concluded by an ARBITRAL AWARD constituting the partial or
final decision by an arbitrator in resolving the issue in a controversy.

7. What are the two types of arbitration?

A compulsory
B. Voluntary

8. Arbitration is voluntary when

-> If it involves the reference of a dispute to an impartial body, the members of which are chosen by
the parties themselves, which parties freely consent in advance to abide by the arbitral award issued
after the proceedings where both parties had the opportunity to be heard.

9. Arbitration is compulsory when....

-> The process of settlement disputes by a government agency which has the authority to investigate
and to make an award which is binding to all parties, and a a mode of arbitration where the parties
are compelled to accept the resolution of their dispute through arbitration by a third party.

10. The ADR Act and its IRR are governed what type of arbitration?
-> Voluntary arbitration.

11. Classification of arbitration

- Domestic
-International Commercial or Foreign

12. Aritration is domesic when..

-> It is not international in character.
->If the components of parties' places of business, place of arbitration, place of performance of a
substantial part of the obligation, and place where the subject matter of the dispute is most closely
connected,ARE ALL LOCATED IN THE PHILIPPINES

13. Arbitration is International if ANY OF THE FOLLOWING INSTANCES OCCUR:

A. The parties' PLACES of business, WHICH AT THE TIME OF THE CONLCUSION OF THE ARBITRAION
AGREEMENT, is in DIFFERENT STATES.
B. The PLACE of ARBITRATION provided in the arbitration agreement and in which the parties have
their places of business is OUTSIDE the Philippines.
C. The place where a substantial part of the obligation is to be performed or the place with which the
subject matter of the dispute is most closely connected, and in which the parties have their places of
business, is OUTSIDE OF THE PHILIPPINES; or
D. The parties have expressly agreed that the subject matter of the arbitration agreement relates to
more than one country.