ASSIGNMENT $1$

Title: Dispute Resolution in Alberta

Student Name: Student Id$.$ Number:

Value: $15\%$ of Final Grade

Due Date: Please check Course Schedule for the due date.

Instructions:

Congratulations!! Your boss has asked you to make the keynote presentation at the upcoming annual general meeting of your company!!

The title of your presentation is $$Dispute Resolution in Alberta: to litigate or not to litigate$$

She wants you to select two of the hypotheticals listed below and build your presentation around the options that would be available to resolve the dispute set out in the hypothetical.

She has asked that your presentation cover all the possible options that would be available including litigation and what steps each option would require. It is also required that your presentation describe the pros and cons of each of the options. She has also made it clear she wants you to make a recommendation as to which option you would recommend and why you are making that recommendation.

Your presentation should conclude with a plan of action.

Hypotheticals$*$

$1.$ A long$-$time customer of your business has expressed concerns with the quality of the merchandise your company delivered in completion of a recent purchase contract. The customer now refuses to pay the $$2\mathrm{.}7$million due under the contract. The sales representative for your company cannot understand what the issue is as the product your company delivered is identical to what this customer has ordered in the past. The Customer has been one of your company$$s best customers.

$2.$ Your company has recently begun significant renovations on its corporate offices. Unfortunately, the renovation company that was awarded the contract to complete the renovations has failed to meet the required deadlines for completion of the renovations. As a result of the delay your company has had to postpone $3$ significant projects for customers resulting in a loss of approximately $$498,000\mathrm{.}00.$

$3.$ Your company specializes in manufacturing an extremely specialized blow out protector for use on critical sour gas wells in Alberta. The engineering is extremely complicated and not well understood by anyone not involved in critical sour gas extraction. A current customer is convinced that the latest version of the product fails to meet the safety requirements in current Alberta Government and AER regulations. Your company$$s safety team disagrees. Unless this is resolved the customer is demanding a refund in the amount of $$3\mathrm{.}7$ million.

$*$You can assume all the hypotheticals occurred in Alberta and there are no mandatory arbitration requirements in any of the contracts.