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KUALA LUMPUR : MTUC was given the honour to attend the inauguration of the MATE Arbitration Court building in Kuala Lumpur today.
The Malaysian Arbitral Tribunal Establishment (MATE) provides alternative dispute resolution services to individuals and business and to administer arbitration, mediation, and adjudication schemes an behalf of trade associations, professional bodies and individual companies.
The other objectives of MATE include :
a) To provides the service of mediation for travel and tour operator disputes relating to personal injury and misappropriation of travel conducting and planning.
b) To provides the adjudication for disputes over telecommunications and internet provision within Malaysia.
c) To provides for the conciliation and arbitration of consumer goods, products and services.
d) To provides the conciliation and arbitration of leasing and consumer credit and any other schemes conducted by the financial institution relating to money lending, mortgaging, insurance claim, trusteeship and negotiable instruments whether contractual or not.
e) To provides scheme for the adjudication of shipping merchants, maritime management, voyaging and harbouring of cargoes dispute, insurance and adjusting manner.
f) To provides for the settlement of dispute in building industry and in the construction of road, rails, bridges and sewerages in accordance with the provision of the Act and these Rules.
The MTUC is one of the eight associated organisations of MATE.
At today’s launch, MTUC was represented by Bro ZulThye, Project Coordinator of MTUC MRC.
Other attendees were corporate leaders, lawyers and senior government officials.
The MATE court building was launched in a simple ceremony officiated by YB Tuan Mohamed HanipaMaidin, Deputy Minister in the Prime Minister’s Department.
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