England and Wales · Arbitration and court procedure
What period and facts govern tribunal award correction in England and Wales?
Within 28 days of the appropriate event, or a longer period actually agreed. Application receipt and own-initiative award date are different anchors; the parties must first have a default section 57 regime.
- Period
- Within 28 days of the appropriate event, or a longer period actually agreed
- Trigger
- Receipt of the party application, or the award date for an own-initiative correction
- Rule
- Arbitration Act 1996 section 57
This tribunal award correction 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
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Arbitration Act 1996 section 57. Within 28 days of the appropriate event, or a longer period actually agreed. Application receipt and own-initiative award date are different anchors; the parties must first have a default section 57 regime. 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 tribunal award correction in England and Wales?
Within 28 days of the appropriate event, or a longer period actually agreed. Application receipt and own-initiative award date are different anchors; the parties must first have a default section 57 regime.
Responsible actor. The arbitral tribunal making a correction.
Receipt of the party application, or the award date for an own-initiative correction
Application receipt and own-initiative award date are different anchors; the parties must first have a default section 57 regime.
The arbitral tribunal making a correction. Within 28 days of the appropriate event, or a longer period actually agreed. Application receipt and own-initiative award date are different anchors; the parties must first have a default section 57 regime.
Arbitration Act 1996 section 57How does this provision count time?
- Within 28 days of the appropriate event, or a longer period actually agreed
- Make the correction to the award.
- Application receipt and own-initiative award date are different anchors; the parties must first have a default section 57 regime.
Section 78(1) and (2) preserves an agreed counting method for the applicable arbitral default. Section 78(3) begins an after-or-from period immediately after the identified date. The short-period exclusions in subsection (5) do not apply merely because a longer period ends on a weekend.
For tribunal award correction, identify the place where the arbitral act must be completed and the operative agreement. Section 78 does not itself state a universal next-working-day extension for these longer arbitral periods. Court-office closure under CPR 2.8(5) must not be imported as an automatic arbitral extension.
Arbitration Act 1996 section 57Which facts prevent one automatic date?
Arbitration Act 1996 section 57. Within 28 days of the appropriate event, or a longer period actually agreed. Application receipt and own-initiative award date are different anchors; the parties must first have a default section 57 regime. 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.
The arbitral tribunal making a correction has records establishing receipt of the party application, or the award date for an own-initiative correction. Within 28 days of the appropriate event, or a longer period actually agreed. Make the correction to the award. Application receipt and own-initiative award date are different anchors; the parties must first have a default section 57 regime. Establish all source facts before choosing a final date.
The proposed compliance period for tribunal award correction meets a weekend, holiday or court-office closure. Section 78(1) and (2) preserves an agreed counting method for the applicable arbitral default. Section 78(3) begins an after-or-from period immediately after the identified date. The short-period exclusions in subsection (5) do not apply merely because a longer period ends on a weekend. For tribunal award correction, identify the place where the arbitral act must be completed and the operative agreement. Section 78 does not itself state a universal next-working-day extension for these longer arbitral periods. Court-office closure under CPR 2.8(5) must not be imported as an automatic arbitral extension. Apply the actual counting regime to the particular act. Do not infer a uniform next-working-day extension.
Application receipt and own-initiative award date are different anchors; the parties must first have a default section 57 regime. Within 28 days of the appropriate event, or a longer period actually agreed. The actual branch facts are not established by the raw catalog period. Make the correction to the award. 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
- The arbitral tribunal making a correction. Make the correction to the award.
- Controlling event and applicable agreement or order
- Receipt of the party application, or the award date for an own-initiative correction. Application receipt and own-initiative award date are different anchors; the parties must first have a default section 57 regime.
- Source-specific counting and completion place
- Section 78(1) and (2) preserves an agreed counting method for the applicable arbitral default. Section 78(3) begins an after-or-from period immediately after the identified date. The short-period exclusions in subsection (5) do not apply merely because a longer period ends on a weekend. For tribunal award correction, identify the place where the arbitral act must be completed and the operative agreement. Section 78 does not itself state a universal next-working-day extension for these longer arbitral periods. Court-office closure under CPR 2.8(5) must not be imported as an automatic arbitral extension.
- The arbitral tribunal making a correction. Within 28 days of the appropriate event, or a longer period actually agreed. Application receipt and own-initiative award date are different anchors; the parties must first have a default section 57 regime.
- Tribunal award correction concerns the arbitral tribunal making a correction and make the correction to the award. Application receipt and own-initiative award date are different anchors; the parties must first have a default section 57 regime. Award correction application 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 tribunal award correction in England and Wales?
What period applies to tribunal award correction?
Within 28 days of the appropriate event, or a longer period actually agreed. Application receipt and own-initiative award date are different anchors; the parties must first have a default section 57 regime.
Arbitration Act 1996 section 57Which actual event controls tribunal award correction?
Receipt of the party application, or the award date for an own-initiative correction. The arbitral tribunal making a correction must establish that event from the actual request, award, service or court records.
Arbitration Act 1996 section 57What act completes tribunal award correction?
Make the correction to the award. Application receipt and own-initiative award date are different anchors; the parties must first have a default section 57 regime.
Arbitration Act 1996 section 57Does an applicant’s sending date start the tribunal period?
Section 57(5) uses the date the tribunal received the application. A sending date alone does not establish that receipt.
Arbitration Act 1996 section 57What event applies when the tribunal acts on its own initiative?
The separate own-initiative limb runs from the date of the award. Do not substitute the date a party later asks about the correction.
Arbitration Act 1996 section 57How does a correction relate to the original award?
Section 57(7) makes a correction part of the award. A material correction may also affect current section 70 applicable-date analysis.
Arbitration Act 1996 section 57Official sources and review
Provisions used (6)
| Provision | Purpose |
|---|---|
| Arbitration Act 1996 section 57 | Check the identified procedure, event, counting rule or qualification |
| Arbitration Act 1996 section 70 | Check the identified procedure, event, counting rule or qualification |
| Arbitration Act 1996 section 78 | Check the identified procedure, event, counting rule or qualification |
| Arbitration Act 1996 section 79 | 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 |