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Substance over form: Alberta Court of Appeal stays third-party claim in favour of arbitration

By Andrew Kalamut and Meaza Damte ( April 13, 2026, 2:38 PM EDT) -- In Arsopi v. ARVOS GmbH, 2026 ABCA 49, the Alberta Court of Appeal (the ABCA) allowed an appeal from a decision that only partially stayed a third-party claim in favour of arbitration. The court concluded that the entire dispute fell within the scope of a broadly worded arbitration clause agreed to by sophisticated commercial parties....
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