In Ottawa v. Coliseum Inc., the applicant city sought leave to appeal from an arbitrator’s award on what it asserted were questions of law. I note that in that case there was no arbitration agreement which addressed the issue of appeals. Rather, the parties had signed minutes of settlement. A dispute arose in relation to whether the obligations under the minutes of settlement had been satisfied and the parties arbitrated that dispute. In that case, there were specific allegations of legal errors made by the arbitrator and I agree with the respondent that it was clear that the rare circumstances existed to allow the questions of law to be extricated from the interpretation of the contract.
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