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England and Wales: section 68 Arbitration Act 1996—correction refusal reasons admissible on substantial injustice; functus officio clarified in Seacrest v BCP

Published on: 14 January 2026

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Seacrest Group Ltd (in provisional liquidation in Bermuda) v BCPR PTE Ltd and another [2025] EWHC 3266 (Comm) What are the practical implications of this case?

Once an arbitral Tribunal has delivered its award, it becomes functus officio: subject only to very limited exceptions, it lacks any ongoing power to make further determinations about the dispute. The parties’ submissions in this matter considered how that principle applies where a party seeks a correction to an award.

Consistent with AA 1996, s 57 and many other arbitration rules, article 38 of the UNCITRAL Rules sets a short timeframe within which a party may request, or the tribunal may on its own initiative make, a correction to an award. The scope is tightly defined: any correction must concern an error in computation, a clerical or typographical slip, or an error or omission of a similar kind. The UNCITRAL Rules also state expressly that any correction forms part of the award...

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