ARBITRATION CENTRE

The Ghana Arbitration Centre is an autonomous, non-profit making institution, incorporated in October 1996, as a company limited by guarantee under the Companies Code, 1963 (Act 179)... The Ghana Arbitration Centre was established on the initiative of a number of senior Ghana Lawyers to address a critical need in the country's system of resolving civil disputes. For some time, successive Chief Justices of Ghana, the Ghana Bar Association, the Ghana Investment Promotion Centre and the Private Enterprise Foundation have all called for the introduction of alternative dispute resolution mechanisms, such as arbitration, to alleviate the congestion in the courts and to enhance expertise and specialization in certain areas of the law, in particular, commercial and investment law... Arbitration is essentially a method to resolve disputes without going to court. Parties will submit the dispute to a third party neutral arbitrator rather than the courts. Unlike a court trial, the presentation..