No permission required to appeal arbitration award where parties' agreement silent | Practical Law
In Royal & Sunalliance Insurance PLC v BAE Systems (Operations) Ltd and others [2008] EWHC 743 (Comm) the court had to consider whether permission to appeal an award under section 69(2)(b) of the Arbitration Act 1996 (the Act) was required where the parties had agreed a provision in the underlying contract that an appeal could be made on a question of law, but that provision was silent as to whether permission from the court was still required.