If you personally were involved in an issue with a firm, if you were involved in a contest over how a transaction went down and the other side chose the adjudicator, paid the adjudicator, designed the process, designed the form, would you consider that to have the full appearance of independence?
On the recordDecember 12, 2011
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Questioning the appearance of independence in adjudicator selection.
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