Manukau City Council v Fletcher Mainline Ltd - [1982] 2 NZLR 142

Arbitration — Award — Form of award — What constitutes the award — Arbitrators issued 119 consecutively numbered pages stapled together in book form — The pages were in two parts: pp 1-11 began with the statement that "That is the award of [the arbitrators]" and ended with the arbitrators' signatures; pp 12-119 began with the heading "Reasons for Arbitrators' Award" and ended with the arbitrators' signatures — Whether the reasons for the award formed part of the award.