In this article, the author discusses the Court of Appeal's decision of 8 July 2005 in Chinney Construction Co Ltd v Po Kwong Marble Factory Ltd , which concerned an arbitrator's final award dealing with the taxation of costs. The Court considered the circumstances in which it may order the reopening of such an award to permit the arbitrator to consider a Calderbank offer that was inadvertently not put to him before the award was made. This decision is currently unreported but will appear shortly in Hong Kong Cases .
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