The difference is that the third party, known as the arbiter, makes a legally binding decision on your case.

In the end, Jones decided who won or loss in what were legally binding decisions.

Doherty judged cases in the show, making legally binding decisions.

An independent arbitrator hears the case and delivers a legally binding decision in favour of one party.

Armed with legally binding decisions, large numbers of the dispossessed in the Balkans have been able to return home and resume their lives.

The board possessed quasi-judicial powers, being able to make legally binding decisions on the bodies under its supervision.

Early decision is technically a legally binding decision, meaning that students must withdraw applications to other schools if accepted.

BTI is a written and legally binding decision on a classification code that applies for up to six years from the date of issue.

Hong Kong asked the Chinese government on Wednesday to issue a legally binding decision on how long the next chief executive will serve here.

If you need a legally binding decision you can apply for Binding Tariff Information ruling (see Section 3).

Surrey Police later made a formal apology for this statement and admitted that no legally binding decision had been made on the work of David Hamilton.

At the WRC, legally binding decisions will be adopted which may also affect broadband mobile services, that is, the UMTS sector.

I am concerned to see signs that the proposed action programme may lead to powers not provided for under the EC Treaty, with legally binding decisions being taken at European level.

The most prominent processes are mediation, where the parties reach a negotiated settlement with help from a mediator, and arbitration, where a trained arbitrator holds a hearing that resembles a stripped-down trial and renders a legally binding decision.

The poem is presented to us as a legal writ, 'Pro bono amor', perhaps in reference to the eighteenth-century Kirk Session's application to official courts for legally binding decisions about fornication and the legitimacy of 'irregular' marriages.

Any issues which require a legally binding decision can be referred to the Equal Opportunities Division of the NSW Administrative Decisions Tribunal (which does have the authority to make a decision) or to a Court.

Sharia tribunals have operated in the United Kingdom since 2008 to mediate and make legally binding decisions regarding inheritance, marriage and divorce, a type of mediation system which is also in place for Jewish and Anglican communities.

Moreover, another body could be entrusted with the adjudication of complaints through legally-binding decisions, within the limits prescribed by the law.

The bodies concerned may hear complaints and applications relating to individual cases and seek a settlement, either by mutual agreement or, within the limits prescribed in law, by legally-binding decisions.

Schaeuble wants the role of the economic and monetary affairs commissioner, dubbed the "currency commissioner" in Germany, to be modeled along the lines of the EU's competition commissioner, the only commissioner who can make legally-binding decisions.

Thus the Council, whose preparatory work is carried out by Coreper, and the Commission alone have powers, each within their own areas of competence and in accordance with procedures laid down by the Treaties, to take legally-binding decisions.