RRY v NKX [2025] EWHC 41 (Comm)

The firm’s arbitration team led by Seamus Smyth recently acted in the above reported case (anonymised to preserve the confidentiality of arbitration) about the challenges and difficulties involved in applications for permission to appeal against arbitration awards as a matter of law under S69 of the Arbitration Act 1996 and for permission to apply to set aside an arbitration award on the grounds of serious irregularity in the conduct of the arbitration under S68 of the Act, and the time limits concerned.  The judgment (not an easy read even for those involved in arbitration) highlights the need for advice about the conduct of arbitrations and more particularly the drafting of arbitration agreements – preferably before they are concluded.