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Legal proceedings, do not in their ordinary sense at first suggest the commencement of an arbitration. To refer to a person as having commenced legal proceedings does not obviously suggest that an arbitration has been commenced, even although its purpose is to obtain an award as to the relevant legal rights of the parties. Legal proceedings in the ordinary sense of the phrase more obviously refers to proceedings in a court of law, ICL Shipping Ltd. v. Chin Thai Steel Enterprise Co. Ltd. (QBD), (2004) 1 WLR 2254.

Means any civil or criminal proceeding or enquiry in which evidence is, or may be given; includes an arbitration, Stroud's Judicial Dictionary, Vol. 2, p. 1439.

Means steps or measures adopted in the prosecution or defence of an action, A Dictionary of Law, Willium C. Anderson, 1889, p. 816.