The Honourable Supreme Court of Pakistan in the case “Injum Aqeel versus Latif Muhammad Chaudhry and others” noted that “ an arbitrator misconducts the proceedings when (i) there is a defect in the procedure followed by him; (ii) he commits breach and neglect of duty and responsibility; (iii) he acts contrary to the principles of equity and good conscience ;(iv) he acts without jurisdiction or exceeds it: (v) he acts beyond the reference; (vi) he proceeds on extraneous circumstances; (vii) he ignores material documents; or (viii) he bases the award on no evidence.-
Above are some of the omissions and commissions which constitute legal misconduct or in other words, that an arbitrator has misconducted the proceedings within meaning of clause (a) of section 30 of the Arbitration Act, 1940.
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