Published Works | Kluwer Arbitration Blog | 29 July 2020

Competence-corrections: Fifth Circuit in the U.S. says arbitrators decide what "correction” means

Awards are final – mostly. Many institutional rules allow arbitrators to correct clerical errors in their awards, but prohibit revisions to the merits of their decisions. The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit signaled in a recent case that it will defer to arbitrators in interpreting institutional rules regarding the scope of their correction authority, even if their interpretation appears to be wrong.

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