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Title 9. CIVIL PRACTICE · Chapter 9. ARBITRATION · Article 1. GENERAL PROVISIONS · Part 2. INTERNATIONAL COMMERCIAL ARBITRATION CODE

9-9-47. Effects of failure to state facts supporting claim, failure to put forward statement of defense, or failure to appear at hearing or to produce documentary evidence.

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Current through: Including Acts of the 2025 Regular Session of the General Assembly.

  1. Unless otherwise agreed by the parties, if, without showing sufficient cause:

  2. (1)

    The claimant fails to communicate his or her statement of claim in accordance with subsection (a) of Code Section 9-9-45, the arbitration tribunal shall terminate the proceedings;#

  3. (2)

    The respondent fails to communicate his or her statement of defense in accordance with subsection (a) of Code Section 9-9-45, the arbitration tribunal shall continue the proceedings without treating such failure in itself as an admission of the claimant’s allegations; and#

  4. (3)

    Any party fails to appear at a hearing or to produce documentary evidence, the arbitration tribunal may continue the proceedings and make the arbitration award on the evidence before it.#

The notes below are printed with the section but are not enacted law (O.C.G.A. § 1-1-1(c)). They are shown apart from the text.

History

Code 1981, § 9-9-47, enacted by Ga. L. 2012, p. 961, § 1/SB 383.

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Current through: Including Acts of the 2025 Regular Session of the General Assembly.

Text read from t9-ch1-10-(v6)-2023-pdf.pdf, Volume V6, 2023 edition, pages 674 to 675; merge action: carried; file SHA-256 ea8a520ad52f.