Appeals against awards: time limits and extension of time

In Daewoo Shipbuilding & Marine Engineering Co Ltd v Songa Offshore Equinox Ltd and Another [2018] EWHC 538 (Comm) Bryan J readdressed the vexed question of exactly when the 28 days permitted by section 70(3) of the Arbitration Act 1996 to appeal against an award began to run where there had been an application to the arbitrators to correct their award under section 57 of the 1996 Act.

Bryan J has accepted the correctness of the most recent authority to the effect that time runs from the date of the award but will be extended to the date of the corrected award where the outcome of the application for correction is material to the decision as to whether there should be an appeal.