Oklahoma § 12-1861 - Consolidation of separate proceedings

§ 12-1861. Consolidation of separate proceedings

A. Except as otherwise provided in subsection C of this

section, upon application and motion of a party to an agreement to

arbitrate or to an arbitration proceeding, the court may order

consolidation of separate arbitration proceedings as to all or some

of the claims if:

1. There are separate agreements to arbitrate or separate

arbitration proceedings between the same persons or one of them is a

party to a separate agreement to arbitrate or a separate arbitration

proceeding with a third person;

2. The claims subject to the agreements to arbitrate arise in

substantial part from the same transaction or series of related

transactions;

3. The existence of a common issue of law or fact creates the

possibility of conflicting decisions in the separate arbitration

proceedings; and

4. Prejudice resulting from a failure to consolidate is not

outweighed by the risk of undue delay or prejudice to the rights of

or hardship to parties opposing consolidation.

B. The court may order consolidation of separate arbitration

proceedings as to some claims and allow other claims to be resolved

in separate arbitration proceedings.

C. The court may not order consolidation of the claims of a

party to an agreement to arbitrate if the agreement prohibits

consolidation.

Added by Laws 2005, c. 364, § 11.