1 Preliminary, the agreement to arbitrate, beginning an arbitration, the arbitrator, the conduct of the reference, the award, and problems and remedies.

2 E.g.: “Although patience is an important attribute of any person acting judicially, there is no call for it to be limitless” (p. 219); “The practice of taking the midday meal with both parties is widespread, and harmless in itself. But it does place on the arbitrator a particular responsibility to dilute his affability with a strict impartiality of manner” (p. 220 n.14); “it has been suggested that the amiable compositeur should decide according to international arbitration law. We can only say in response to this that if such a law exists, it is nowhere to be found” (p. 611).

3 As the authors so aptly put it, “[a]fter several decades of consolidation, the English law of arbitration has suddenly sprung vigorously to life” (p. 381).

4 Expounded in App. 4.