adr-sml/src/pages/arbitration.astro

---
/**
 * `/arbitration/` — build step 4. Spec: docs/01 §`/arbitration/`, docs/03.
 *
 * ⚠️ THE PAIRED-DISCLOSURE CONDITION IS GONE, AND SO IS THE SECTION IT
 * REQUIRED. Until 2026-08-29 this page was built around §4's condition that the
 * arbitration offering ship beside the STAGE of the Q.Arb pathway — an h1
 * reading "Available now, and open about the stage", and a whole section headed
 * "Where I am in the arc". Q.Arb is held; the condition dissolved with its
 * subject; the section was deleted rather than rewritten.
 *
 * ⚠️ AND DO NOT REPRODUCE IT FROM MEMORY. The characteristic failure now is a
 * page that offers arbitration and then reaches for something qualifying to
 * say. There is nothing to qualify: §4 Offerings rows all three forms, the
 * designations are held, and the hero's `CredentialRow` names them. What
 * remains of the old framing is the commercial scope — which was never part of
 * the condition and is Pouya's own choice (Q39).
 *
 * ⚠️ AND NOTHING HERE MAY SAY OR IMPLY THAT ARBITRATION IS UNGATED IN ONTARIO.
 * Q39's struck universal — "anyone may be appointed an arbitrator in Ontario;
 * nothing in law gates the role behind a designation" — was FALSE as a
 * universal, has been swept four times, and reached a public page once. The
 * page states what is offered. It makes no claim about what the law requires of
 * anyone.
 */
import BaseLayout from '../layouts/BaseLayout.astro';
import Button from '../components/Button.astro';
import ContactBand from '../components/ContactBand.astro';
import DefinitionGrid from '../components/DefinitionGrid.astro';
import CredentialRow from '../components/CredentialRow.astro';
import Eyebrow from '../components/Eyebrow.astro';
import SectionHeading from '../components/SectionHeading.astro';
import Undertaking from '../components/Undertaking.astro';
import { getImage } from 'astro:assets';
import ogDefault from '../assets/og-portrait.jpg';
import { serviceGraph } from '../data/schema';
import {
  CONDUCT_UNDERTAKINGS,
  CREDENTIAL_ROW,
  CREDENTIAL_ROW_ARB,
} from '../data/site';

const ldImage = await getImage({
  src: ogDefault,
  format: 'jpeg',
  width: 1200,
  height: 630,
});
const graph = serviceGraph({
  path: '/arbitration/',
  name: 'Commercial arbitration',
  serviceType: 'Commercial arbitration',
  description:
    'Sole-arbitrator, party-appointed and co-arbitration appointments in ' +
    'commercial matters. Documents-only, expedited and full hearing tracks.',
  imageUrl: new URL(ldImage.src, Astro.site).href,
});

/* §4 Offerings rows all three, each `[verified 2026-08-26 — Pouya, Q33/Q36]`,
   each scoped commercial. Do not add a fourth without a row. */
const APPOINTMENTS = [
  {
    name: 'Sole arbitrator',
    body: 'One arbitrator, appointed by agreement or by the mechanism the contract names.',
  },
  {
    name: 'Party-appointed',
    body: 'Appointed by one side to a three-member tribunal, deciding with the other two.',
  },
  {
    name: 'Co-arbitration',
    body: 'Sitting with co-arbitrators, usually where the matter spans more than one discipline.',
  },
];

/* Tracks are docs/01 §`/arbitration/` item 2. The flat fees behind the first
   two are D14's card and live on `/fees/`; no figure appears here. */
const TRACKS = [
  {
    name: 'Documents only',
    body: 'No hearing. Written submissions, the documentary record, and an award. The right track where the dispute is about what the contract says rather than about what happened.',
  },
  {
    name: 'Expedited',
    body: 'A compressed timetable fixed at the outset, with page limits and a short hearing. Chosen when the commercial cost of the dispute staying open exceeds the value of a full process.',
  },
  {
    name: 'Full hearing',
    body: 'Pleadings, disclosure, witnesses, experts, oral argument. Where the facts are genuinely contested and someone has to hear them tested.',
  },
];
---

<BaseLayout
  title="Commercial Arbitration · Pouya Lajevardi · Toronto"
  description="Sole, party-appointed and co-arbitration appointments in commercial matters, Toronto. Tracks, rules, and how an award is written and when it is due."
  jsonLd={graph}
>
  {/* ---- 1. Hero -------------------------------------------------------- */}
  <section class="section hero">
    <div class="wrap">
      <Eyebrow dot>Arbitration</Eyebrow>
      <h1 class="display hero-h">Sole, party-appointed, co-arbitration.</h1>
      <p class="hero-lede">
        I accept all three in commercial matters. This page covers how much
        process the dispute needs, whose rules it runs under, and how the award
        gets written.
      </p>
      <div class="hero-creds">
        <CredentialRow slots={[...CREDENTIAL_ROW, CREDENTIAL_ROW_ARB]} />
      </div>
    </div>
  </section>

  {/* ---- 2. Appointments ------------------------------------------------ */}
  {
    /* INVERSE, and it inherited the ground rather than choosing it. The deleted
      credentialing-stage section was this page's only `section-inverse`; left
      cream, this section would have sat cream-on-cream against the hero and
      rendered as one doubled block — the defect `/practice/[slug].astro` now
      throws on. */
  }
  <section class="section section-inverse reveal">
    <div class="wrap">
      <div class="section-head">
        <SectionHeading
          eyebrow="Appointments"
          level={2}
          lede="Commercial matters. I do not accept family arbitration."
        >
          <span slot="heading">Three forms.</span>
        </SectionHeading>
      </div>
      <DefinitionGrid items={APPOINTMENTS} />
    </div>
  </section>

  {/* ---- 3. Tracks ------------------------------------------------------ */}
  <section class="section section-alt reveal">
    <div class="wrap">
      <div class="section-head">
        <SectionHeading
          eyebrow="Tracks"
          level={2}
          lede="Settled with the parties before the first procedural order, not defaulted to."
        >
          <span slot="heading">How much process the dispute needs.</span>
        </SectionHeading>
      </div>
      <DefinitionGrid items={TRACKS} />
    </div>
  </section>

  {/* ---- 4. Rules ------------------------------------------------------- */}
  <section class="section reveal">
    <div class="wrap">
      <div class="section-head">
        <SectionHeading eyebrow="Rules" level={2}>
          <span slot="heading">Under whose rules.</span>
        </SectionHeading>
      </div>
      <div class="prose">
        {
          /* Sourced: docs/reference/adric-rules.md.

            ⚠️ ADR CHAMBERS IS NOT NAMED HERE, AND MUST NOT BE ADDED BACK.
            Struck by Pouya 2026-08-30 from this page and from `docs/01` item 3
            in the same ruling. `docs/reference/adr-institution-names.md`
            establishes what the firm publishes — it does not establish that an
            outside neutral can be appointed under its rules, and its own model
            clause reads "at ADR Chambers". Naming it implies a relationship
            this repository does not source. ADRIC and ad hoc are enough. */
        }
        <p>
          <strong>The ADRIC Arbitration Rules.</strong> The ADR Institute of Canada
          adopted a new edition effective 1 March 2025, alongside an arbitrator appointment
          protocol and a set of forms — notice to arbitrate, request to administer,
          request for the appointment of an arbitrator, urgent interim measures, challenge
          to an arbitrator, notice of appeal.
        </p>
        <p>
          <strong>Or ad hoc, or whatever the contract names.</strong> Where a contract
          names a rule set, a seat and a language and leaves the rest to the tribunal,
          that works.
        </p>
        {
          /* Q54(e), rowed in §4 as a conduct undertaking. It REPLACED the
            third-person sentence that made the same point as an observation;
            do not restore that sentence beside it. */
        }
        <Undertaking>{CONDUCT_UNDERTAKINGS.arbitrationProcedure}</Undertaking>
      </div>
    </div>
  </section>

  {/* ---- 5. Awards ------------------------------------------------------ */}
  <section class="section section-alt reveal">
    <div class="wrap">
      <div class="section-head">
        <SectionHeading eyebrow="Awards" level={2}>
          <span slot="heading">In writing, with reasons.</span>
        </SectionHeading>
      </div>
      <div class="prose">
        <p>
          An award should be in writing and give reasons — what was in dispute,
          what the record showed, and why the conclusion follows. An award that
          announces a result without the reasoning is not much use to the party
          that lost, and it is no use at all to the relationship that has to
          survive it.
        </p>
        {
          /* THE DATE IS A COMMITMENT ABOUT PROCESS, NOT A PUBLISHED TURNAROUND.
            §4 Forbidden bars a time-to-award statistic outright; no figure
            appears here and none may be added. */
        }
        {
          /* Q54(f), answered by Pouya 2026-08-29 and rowed in §4 as a conduct
            undertaking. Same replacement as in the Rules section above: this
            paragraph opened "The date an award is due belongs in the first
            procedural order", the observation form of the same commitment. The
            sentence that follows it is unchanged and is the one doing the §4
            Forbidden work. */
        }
        <Undertaking>{CONDUCT_UNDERTAKINGS.arbitrationAwardDate}</Undertaking>
        <p>
          No number is published here: a turnaround time advertised in advance
          of a record is a guess dressed as a commitment.
        </p>
      </div>
    </div>
  </section>

  {/* ---- 6. Fees --------------------------------------------------------- */}
  <section class="section reveal">
    <div class="wrap">
      <div class="section-head">
        <SectionHeading eyebrow="Fees" level={2}>
          <span slot="heading">Published in full.</span>
        </SectionHeading>
      </div>
      <div class="prose">
        <p>
          Hourly, hearing day, and flat fees for documents-only and expedited
          matters at two levels of complexity. The cancellation schedule is on
          the same page.
        </p>
      </div>
      <div class="cta">
        <Button href="/fees/" variant="ghost">The rate card &rarr;</Button>
      </div>
    </div>
  </section>

  <ContactBand />
</BaseLayout>

<style>
  .hero {
    padding-block-start: var(--space-9);
  }
  .hero-h {
    margin-block: var(--space-4) var(--space-5);
    font-size: var(--text-5xl);
    max-inline-size: 20ch;
  }
  .hero-lede {
    max-inline-size: 58ch;
    font-size: var(--text-lg);
    line-height: var(--leading-body);
    color: var(--text-secondary);
  }
  .hero-creds {
    margin-block-start: var(--space-8);
  }

  .cta {
    margin-block-start: var(--space-6);
  }
</style>