England and Wales · Arbitration and court procedure
What period and facts govern arbitration award challenge clock in England and Wales?
Within 28 days of the applicable date, subject to an actual court variation. Resolve the 2025 transition and exhaust available arbitral review and section 57 recourse before selecting the controlling date.
- Period
- Within 28 days of the applicable date, subject to an actual court variation
- Trigger
- The source-established applicable date under current section 70(3A)
- Rule
- Arbitration Act 1996 section 70
This arbitration award challenge clock guide uses retained current official Arbitration Act 1996 text and current Justice UK CPR and PD 62 pages. The 2025 Act section 12 and SI 2025/905 commenced the amended section 70 scheme on August 1, 2025. Section 17(4) of the 2025 Act preserves its specified precommencement exclusions; the actual arbitral and court commencement facts remain necessary.
Source guide · No automated date
Check the applicable procedure
Arbitration Act 1996 section 70. Within 28 days of the applicable date, subject to an actual court variation. Resolve the 2025 transition and exhaust available arbitral review and section 57 recourse before selecting the controlling date. Establish the actual actor, event, agreed regime, court order and completion facts before relying on a final endpoint. This source guide provides no computed or paid date.
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What period and facts govern arbitration award challenge clock in England and Wales?
Within 28 days of the applicable date, subject to an actual court variation. Resolve the 2025 transition and exhaust available arbitral review and section 57 recourse before selecting the controlling date.
Responsible actor. A party bringing a section 67 or 68 application or section 69 appeal.
The source-established applicable date under current section 70(3A)
Resolve the 2025 transition and exhaust available arbitral review and section 57 recourse before selecting the controlling date.
A party bringing a section 67 or 68 application or section 69 appeal. Within 28 days of the applicable date, subject to an actual court variation. Resolve the 2025 transition and exhaust available arbitral review and section 57 recourse before selecting the controlling date.
Arbitration Act 1996 section 70How does this provision count time?
- Within 28 days of the applicable date, subject to an actual court variation
- Issue the appropriate originating process in accordance with the court rules.
- Resolve the 2025 transition and exhaust available arbitral review and section 57 recourse before selecting the controlling date.
For arbitration award challenge clock, section 80(4) and (5) separates court issue from service and applies court counting rules to statutory court time limits. CPR 2.8 computes day periods as clear days and omits specified nonworking days only for periods of five days or less.
For arbitration award challenge clock, CPR 2.8(5) addresses an act at a court office whose final day is a closure day. It does not automatically move service on another party, erase required intervening clear days, or lift the enforcement restriction. Resolve the 2025 transition and exhaust available arbitral review and section 57 recourse before selecting the controlling date.
Arbitration Act 1996 section 70Which facts prevent one automatic date?
Arbitration Act 1996 section 70. Within 28 days of the applicable date, subject to an actual court variation. Resolve the 2025 transition and exhaust available arbitral review and section 57 recourse before selecting the controlling date. Establish the actual actor, event, agreed regime, court order and completion facts before relying on a final endpoint. This source guide provides no computed or paid date.
A party bringing a section 67 or 68 application or section 69 appeal has records establishing the source-established applicable date under current section 70(3A). Within 28 days of the applicable date, subject to an actual court variation. Issue the appropriate originating process in accordance with the court rules. Resolve the 2025 transition and exhaust available arbitral review and section 57 recourse before selecting the controlling date. Establish all source facts before choosing a final date.
The proposed compliance period for arbitration award challenge clock meets a weekend, holiday or court-office closure. For arbitration award challenge clock, section 80(4) and (5) separates court issue from service and applies court counting rules to statutory court time limits. CPR 2.8 computes day periods as clear days and omits specified nonworking days only for periods of five days or less. For arbitration award challenge clock, CPR 2.8(5) addresses an act at a court office whose final day is a closure day. It does not automatically move service on another party, erase required intervening clear days, or lift the enforcement restriction. Resolve the 2025 transition and exhaust available arbitral review and section 57 recourse before selecting the controlling date. Apply the actual counting regime to the particular act. Do not infer a uniform next-working-day extension.
Resolve the 2025 transition and exhaust available arbitral review and section 57 recourse before selecting the controlling date. Within 28 days of the applicable date, subject to an actual court variation. The actual branch facts are not established by the raw catalog period. Issue the appropriate originating process in accordance with the court rules. Establish the material facts or follow the actual order; this guide supplies no automatic date.
Which conditions and exceptions apply?
- Actual actor and completed procedural act
- A party bringing a section 67 or 68 application or section 69 appeal. Issue the appropriate originating process in accordance with the court rules.
- Controlling event and applicable agreement or order
- The source-established applicable date under current section 70(3A). Resolve the 2025 transition and exhaust available arbitral review and section 57 recourse before selecting the controlling date.
- Source-specific counting and completion place
- For arbitration award challenge clock, section 80(4) and (5) separates court issue from service and applies court counting rules to statutory court time limits. CPR 2.8 computes day periods as clear days and omits specified nonworking days only for periods of five days or less. For arbitration award challenge clock, CPR 2.8(5) addresses an act at a court office whose final day is a closure day. It does not automatically move service on another party, erase required intervening clear days, or lift the enforcement restriction. Resolve the 2025 transition and exhaust available arbitral review and section 57 recourse before selecting the controlling date.
- A party bringing a section 67 or 68 application or section 69 appeal. Within 28 days of the applicable date, subject to an actual court variation. Resolve the 2025 transition and exhaust available arbitral review and section 57 recourse before selecting the controlling date.
- Arbitration award challenge clock concerns a party bringing a section 67 or 68 application or section 69 appeal and issue the appropriate originating process in accordance with the court rules. Resolve the 2025 transition and exhaust available arbitral review and section 57 recourse before selecting the controlling date. Arbitral review notification date addresses a separate procedural question and cannot establish this actor’s completed step.
What must the responsible actor complete?
Questions about this procedure
What period and facts govern arbitration award challenge clock in England and Wales?
What period applies to arbitration award challenge clock?
Within 28 days of the applicable date, subject to an actual court variation. Resolve the 2025 transition and exhaust available arbitral review and section 57 recourse before selecting the controlling date.
Arbitration Act 1996 section 70Which actual event controls arbitration award challenge clock?
The source-established applicable date under current section 70(3A). A party bringing a section 67 or 68 application or section 69 appeal must establish that event from the actual request, award, service or court records.
Arbitration Act 1996 section 70What act completes arbitration award challenge clock?
Issue the appropriate originating process in accordance with the court rules. Resolve the 2025 transition and exhaust available arbitral review and section 57 recourse before selecting the controlling date.
Arbitration Act 1996 section 70Which event supplies the applicable date?
Current subsection (3A) distinguishes notification of arbitral review, material correction or additional award, notification of refused material recourse, and the residual award date.
Arbitration Act 1996 section 70Does issuing the court process differ from serving it?
Yes. Section 80(4) identifies issue as the statutory court step. CPR 62.4 separately governs service of the arbitration claim form.
Arbitration Act 1996 section 80Can the current wording be used for every older arbitration?
No. The 2025 Act section 17(4) excludes precommencement arbitrations, their connected court proceedings and other precommencement court proceedings.
Arbitration Act 2025 section 17Official sources and review
Provisions used (7)
| Provision | Purpose |
|---|---|
| Arbitration Act 1996 section 70 | Check the identified procedure, event, counting rule or qualification |
| Arbitration Act 1996 section 80 | Check the identified procedure, event, counting rule or qualification |
| Arbitration Act 2025 section 12 | Check the identified procedure, event, counting rule or qualification |
| Arbitration Act 2025 section 17 | Check the identified procedure, event, counting rule or qualification |
| SI 2025/905 regulation 2 | Check the identified procedure, event, counting rule or qualification |
| CPR 62.9 | Check the identified procedure, event, counting rule or qualification |
| CPR 2.8 | Check the identified procedure, event, counting rule or qualification |