Maxie Chopard
Maxie works closely with her clients to manage and resolve complex, multi-jurisdictional disputes. She has acted for clients in the life sciences and pharmaceutical, technology, media and telecommunications, and energy and construction sectors both in High Court litigation and under the rules of major arbitral institutions.
She regularly undertakes pro bono work, providing legal advice through the Islington Law Centre on consumer law, housing and employment matters.
Practice Area
Panel
- Contributing Author
Qualified Year
- 2022
Membership
- Junior London Solicitors Litigation Association
- Young International Arbitration Group
Qualifications
- LLB (1st class honours) (2018)
- Legal Practice Course (Distinction) (2019)
Education
- University College London (2018)
- BPP (2019)
2 Contributions by Maxie Chopard
PRACTICE NOTES
Arbitration Act 1996 s 57: correction, clarification and additional awards; procedure, deadlines and court extensions; LCIA parallels, section 68 challenges and 2025 Act time recalculation
Correction of an arbitral award under AA 1996
Once an award is delivered, parties and their solicitors should review it meticulously to identify any mistakes arising from an accidental slip or omission, or any ambiguity that ought to be clarified or removed. Naturally, they will also be looking for substantive errors that might ground a challenge or an appeal, but they must also ensure the tribunal is given the chance to address any error capable of correction under the ‘slip rule’ in section 57 of the Arbitration Act 1996 (AA 1996). That rule operates as an exception to the position that the tribunal is functus officio once it has given its award—meaning it no longer has power or authority over the arbitration (eg H v W)...
Arbitration
PRACTICE NOTES
Provisional awards under the Arbitration Act 1996: interim relief, party consent, enforcement, institutional rules, key authorities and the 2025 Act’s s39A summary power (England, Wales and Northern Ireland)
This Practice Note considers the availability of provisional awards under the Arbitration Act 1996 (AA 1996), pending the Arbitration Act 2025.
The Arbitration Act 2025 secured Royal Assent on 25 February 2025. For details of its commencement, see Practice Note: When will the Arbitration Act 2025 come into force?
A provisional award supplies, on an interim footing, a remedy that the arbitral tribunal could equally grant by a final award (AA 1996, s 39(1)). The tribunal does not possess an inherent power to issue a provisional award; such authority must be conferred by agreement of the parties (AA 1996, s 39(4)).
Provisional awards may include orders for:
the payment of money
the disposition of property between the parties
an interim payment on account of the costs of the arbitration
See also EGF v HVF, noting that the parties were free to confer on arbitrators the power to order, on a provisional basis, any relief they could grant in a final award, including a provisional order requiring payment of money between the parties...
Arbitration
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