@kiwipaul said:
My understanding of how a SM is appointed is that if you recieve a ruling that a SM is to be appointed the person (or EC or OC) that won the ruling has to provide the details of the SM. I would assume they are given a suitable time frame to find one.
KP, this is specifically about a case where neither side of a dispute has sought the appointment of an SM but the adjudicator has decided that is the best way to go. In that kind of case, no SM would have been pre-selected because no such order was being sought. (See my last response below).