Social Control Tradition and the Adoption of Compulsory Arbitration Law in Australia and Nigeria.

The article presents the information regarding the political economies of Australia and Nigeria. Australia and Nigeria have a similar compulsory arbitration law despite the fact that the two countries do not belong to the same group of nations which would make them eligible for commonalities shared by groups of nations in virtue of a shared history, culture, legal tradition and language. In fact, both the countries are poles apart. The structural change between two countries should have led to different laws in the two countries. In 1904, the Commonwealth of Australia instituted the most comprehensive compulsory arbitration legal system. Nigeria also introduced a compulsory industrial arbitration scheme fundamentally similar to that of Australia in 1968. Section 2 of Australia's original Commonwealth Conciliation and Arbitration Act 1904 expressed its seven chief objects. While the law entitled Trade Disputes (Emergency Provisions) Decree 1968 did not contain any section enumerating its objects.