ad hoc

Something ad hoc is set up for a specific task or case and ends when that task is done. In law the phrase appears in ad hoc judges of the Supreme Court, appointed temporarily when there is no quorum of permanent judges; ad hoc arbitration, where the parties run the arbitration themselves without an arbitral institution; and ad hoc appointments in service law, which do not give a right to regularisation.

In service matters a person appointed ad hoc, outside the regular selection process, generally cannot claim seniority from that date. In everyday writing ad hoc can also mean improvised, which is not always a compliment.

Example

The parties chose ad hoc arbitration, so each appointed one arbitrator and the two chose the presiding arbitrator, without any institution's rules.

In Indian law

• Article 127, Constitution of India (appointment of ad hoc judges)

See also

arbitration · ad interim · sui generis

Read more in the study notes

• Central Vigilance Commission, parliamentary committees and commissions of inquiry (Administrative Law)
• Arbitration: meaning, kinds and salient features of the 1996 Act (Alternative Dispute Resolution Systems)
• Principal steps in arbitration and interim measures (Alternative Dispute Resolution Systems)
• The Deposit Insurance and Credit Guarantee Corporation Act, 1961 (Banking Law)
• Computation of limitation: exclusion of time, fraud, acknowledgment, part-payment and continuing wrongs (Civil Procedure Code and Limitation Act)
• The working of the Indian monetary system and the Chakravarty Committee Report (Economic Development in India)