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Originally Posted by afc wimbledon
There are no sharia courts in the UK for Christ sake! if two parties choose to use a sharia option in any legal affair it has no more legal status than going to a counsellor for a negotiated settlement, either party can choose to ignore it and go to regular court.
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A 5 second google search could tell you that this is totally wrong. They're arbitrations, governed in the same way as any arbitration under the Arbitration Act, and are binding as any other arbitration is. That being said, it's still voluntary for the parties to submit to arbitration. But the ruling is absolutely binding, you can't "choose to ignore it", and in general, arbitral decisions are quite hard to appeal, so getting it in front of a regular if you don't like the outcome is an uphill battle.