This seminar will discuss appeals under section 69 of the Arbitration Act 1996, the English Arbitration Act 2025 and the Arbitration Reform Project of the Law Commission. Shipping cases and reinsurance cases will be used to demonstrate the use of the appeals mechanism in arbitration and the case law jurisprudence on this issue, so as to elaborate on how the right to appeal in law is used differently in different categories of disputes and whereby the parties’ expectations are different. Where appeals may be allowed on questions of law, in reality we are witnessing an abuse as often questions of fact are cloaked as questions of law. There will also be a discussion of the changes introduced by the new Arbitration Act 2025, and of the only new change regarding appeals in arbitration, i.e., the new section 67 of the Arbitration Act 2025 and conclusions will be drawn. The position in other common law and civil law jurisdictions and in UNCITRAL Model Law jurisdictions as to the appeals mechanism in arbitration will be also presented to juxtapose the different approach and finally general overall conclusions will be drawn.