Muslim Arbitration Tribunal

A private arbitration tribunal in England and Wales operating under the Arbitration Act 1996, which lets parties choose a religious law, including Islamic law, to govern the arbitration of a civil or commercial dispute they have agreed in advance to submit to it. Each panel sits with a barrister or solicitor of England and Wales alongside a scholar of Islamic sacred law. The Tribunal has no jurisdiction over criminal proceedings or divorce, both of which are entirely outside the Arbitration Act, and an award it issues is enforceable in the ordinary courts only in the way any arbitration award is, if unchallenged.