Property arbitrators to state cases on issues of law arising from placing of power lines on private lands

High Court (in three cases) grants orders directing property arbitrators to state questions of law for determination by the High Court, where the Electricity Supply Board (ESB) had exercised its statutory right to place electric lines across private lands, and had made unconditional offers for compensation prior to arbitration, the questions including: (a) whether the arbitrator had jurisdiction to depart from an offer including costs that had been accepted by a property owner; (b) whether the arbitrator had jurisdiction to impose a time limit on acceptance of an offer, where no such term had been included in the offer; (c) whether the arbitrator had jurisdiction when it came to costs to fix a date by which the offer should have been accepted; (d) whether the arbitrator had jurisdiction to determine issues of fact and law in a claim which had been settled; and (e) whether the arbitrator had jurisdiction to determine issues of fact and law without hearing any evidence, or affording the ESB the opportunity to be heard.