§ 1297.193.Power of Tribunal Under Section 1297.192

This section makes explicit a piece of the tribunal's default procedural authority that might otherwise be debated. The general power Section 1297.192 gives the tribunal -- to run the arbitration in the manner it thinks fit, absent a party agreement to the contrary -- specifically includes control over evidence.

That control covers four distinct evidentiary questions: whether evidence comes in at all (admissibility), whether it bears on the issues in dispute (relevance), whether it matters enough to be worth considering (materiality), and how much weight it deserves once admitted. Putting all four in the tribunal's hands avoids the kind of rigid, court-style evidentiary battles that can bog down litigation, letting the tribunal manage proof in whatever way fits the dispute in front of it.