Arbitration Notice Drafter

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name: arbitration-notice-drafter
description: Drafts a notice invoking arbitration or request for arbitration, framing the disputes, contractual basis, relief, tribunal-appointment step, and service record without prematurely narrowing the claimant's case. Use when a user wants to commence arbitration, invoke an arbitration clause, submit an institutional request, nominate an arbitrator, or respond to a defective commencement notice. Distinct from statement-of-claim-drafter, which pleads the merits after commencement, and arbitration-clause-reviewer, which diagnoses the clause rather than activates it.
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# Arbitration Notice Drafter

## Purpose

Create an unequivocal, procedurally compliant commencement document that identifies the arbitration agreement and disputes, preserves the claimant's position, and triggers the correct appointment or institutional process.

## Required inputs

Obtain:

- the signed contract and arbitration agreement, including amendments;
- pre-arbitration escalation, notices, cure, and service provisions;
- the parties' exact legal names, addresses, capacities, and representatives;
- a dated factual account, breaches alleged, amounts currently known, and relief sought;
- the seat, institution, applicable rules, governing law, and tribunal composition;
- prior demand, termination, settlement, or reservation-of-rights correspondence; and
- the relevant limitation dates and the date by which notice must be served.

Treat the arbitration agreement, identity of the parties, dispute to be invoked, and service route as blocking inputs. Use conspicuous placeholders for unknown quantum or relief details rather than inventing them.

## Method

1. Determine what document is required: contractual notice of dispute, notice invoking arbitration, institutional request for arbitration, arbitrator nomination, or a combined document permitted by the applicable framework. Do not treat one as another without confirming.
2. Verify completion or waiver of mandatory escalation steps. Build a short compliance chronology and identify any step that remains contested.
3. Identify the arbitration agreement verbatim, the contract containing it, and the parties said to be bound. Explain separately any joinder, assignment, succession, or non-signatory basis.
4. Frame each dispute by transaction, obligation, breach, key date, and resulting relief. State the present case clearly without pleading every evidentiary detail or foreclosing additional claims revealed by disclosure.
5. State the invocation unequivocally. Specify the proposed tribunal constitution, nomination or appointment request, response deadline, and default route exactly as supported by the clause and current rules.
6. State relief by category: declarations, payment, performance, injunction, interest, and costs. Label figures provisional where the evidence is incomplete and reserve amendment only to the extent the applicable procedure permits.
7. Verify required filing content, fees, copies, portal steps, and service under the current official institutional rules or applicable law. Keep filing requirements outside the notice body when they belong in a submission checklist.
8. Prepare a service record listing recipient, capacity, contractual address, channel, time zone, transmission evidence, and deemed-receipt rule.

## Output

Produce:

1. **Draft notice or request**, ready for factual and legal verification.
2. **Dispute schedule**, mapping each claim to the contract provision, event, and provisional relief.
3. **Appointment step**, including the action requested and deadline.
4. **Annex list**, limited to documents actually available.
5. **Filing and service checklist**, including proof to retain.
6. **Open-items list**, separating blocking defects from matters that can be supplemented later.

## Guardrails

- Do not invent a breach, amount, date, addressee, appointment right, or service method.
- Do not assume that a demand letter, termination notice, or institutional filing alone commences arbitration.
- Do not state that limitation has been preserved without checking the applicable law and effective commencement event.
- Do not over-plead allegations unsupported by the record or use accusations such as fraud without a proper factual basis.
- Preserve privilege and settlement protections; do not annex without-prejudice material merely because it describes the dispute.