Yat Soon was the judge who decided disputes between warring tongs.
It aims to decide disputes in a few days, rather than the extended periods a court of law would take.
Of course, the making of policy by regulators is incidental to and inherent in their duty to decide specific cases or disputes.
Village assemblies exercised large powers in deciding local disputes.
Tribunals are specialist judicial bodies which decide disputes in a particular area of law.
When I must decide disputes, one side will always be unhappy with me.
They would decide disputes according to tribal customary law.
One reflected on the nature of government: nothing equips the state to decide theological disputes or guide citizens to salvation.
This was a tribunal to decide commercial and industrial disputes.
It was subsequently cited as precedent by a number of other federal courts deciding disputes between an eruv association and a local government.