Arbitration — Contract — Action on — Counterclaim based on prior contract — Arbitration clause — Application to stay counterclaim — Jurisdiction — Discretion — Arbitration Act 1915 (No. 2614), s. 5.

Arbitration — Contract — Arbitration clause — Reference to party's engineer — Breach of contract — Repudiation — Action — Stay of proceedings — Dispute involving examination of engineer — Arbitration Act 1928 (No. 3637), sec. 5.

Arbitration - Contract - Implied terms - Whether implied term that hearing be in private - Legal incident to particular class of contract - Custom of country - Broad equitable considerations - Whether implied term that information disclosed in arbitration is confidential - Difficulty in formulating general rule and exceptions - Declaration - Whether declaration appropriate - Declaration in vague or general terms - Declaration based on hypothetical facts - Stay of proceedings - Commercial Arbitration Act 1984 (No 10167), s14, s26, s47, s53.