Jurisdiction in Arbitration

Importance of arbitration, as an Alternative Dispute Settlement mechanism, offers flexible, convenient and cost effective mode of solving the dispute. The cardinal point is the jurisdiction of the arbitral tribunal which vests powers to the arbitral tribunal or arbitrator to legally arbitrate of the dispute. This paper discuss the cardinal point of the arbitral jurisdiction, tracing where the arbitral tribunal or arbitrator powers originate and what happen if there is abuse or ultra vires in the exercise of the powers vested. The papers, comparatively, takes a snap shot of Rwanda, which has one of the modern arbitration legislation and Tanzania which as the oldest one, dated as far back as 1931.