Arbitration—including other parties
3920 Arbitration—including other parties
An applicant may include someone else as a party to an arbitration by naming the person in the application.
A respondent may include someone else as a party to an arbitration (a third-party respondent) by filing a third-party notice.
Example
If a worker contracts a disease or suffers an aggravation, acceleration or recurrence of a disease, a respondent employer claiming to be entitled to contribution from another employer may include the other employer as a third-party respondent.
See approved form 3.61 (Arbitration—third-party notice) AF2006-498.
A party including a person as a third-party respondent must, not later than 14 days after the day the party files the notice—
serve a sealed copy of the notice, the application for arbitration and any answer filed in the arbitration, on the person; and
serve a sealed copy of the notice on each other party to the arbitration.
The court may, at any time, order a party who has included a person as a party in an arbitration to—
serve on the person any document in the arbitration; or
file and serve on the person and each other party an affidavit setting out the basis on which the person has been included.
The statute text is free to read above. View subscription options to unlock the case-law research tools for each provision.