HT-2024-000328 - [2025] EWHC 2926 (TCC)

Fecha: 14-Oct-2025

MRS JUSTICE O'FARRELL

MRS JUSTICE O'FARRELL :

This matter concerns a challenge to the Partial Arbitral Award of Mr Mark Thomas dated 27 August 2024. At the start of these proceedings there were two applications before the court:

Firstly, the Defendants’ application dated 19 December 2024, challenging jurisdiction and seeking: (a) setting aside of the purported service of the arbitration claim form and accompanying grounds of appeal on the defendants; (b) declaring that the Court has no jurisdiction; (c) setting aside the order dated 14 October 2024 granting permission to extend time for issue to 4 October 2024; and (d) costs.

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Secondly, the Claimant’s application dated 23 December 2024 for: (a) an order extending time for the issue of proceedings from 24 September 2024 to 20 November 2024; and/or (b) an extension of time for service of the claim form to 26 November 2024; and (c) provision for costs.

Some of the issues have fallen away given the more recent evidence filed by the Claimant. As I indicated to the parties at the start of this hearing, as far as the court is concerned, the substantive issue before the Court is whether or not there should be an extension of time for the issue of the claim form beyond the 28-day statutory period.