Serious irregularity: the slip rule

In X v Y [2018] EWHC 741 (Comm) there was an appeal against an arbitration award on various grounds of serious irregularity under section 68(2) of the Arbitration Act 1996. Bryan J disposed of the application by his finding that the claimant had failed, as required by section 70(2) of the 1996 Act, to seek relief from the tribunal itself in accordance with the slip rule in section 57 of the 1996 Act.

The most important issue was whether the slip rule had been ousted by the rules of the London Court of International Arbitration as adopted in the present case.