[§658A-25]  Judgment on award; attorney's fees and litigation expenses.  (a)  Upon granting an order confirming, vacating without directing a rehearing, modifying, or correcting an award, the court shall enter a judgment in conformity therewith.  The judgment may be recorded, docketed, and enforced as any other judgment in a civil action.

     (b)  A court may allow reasonable costs of the motion and subsequent judicial proceedings.

     (c)  On application of a prevailing party to a contested judicial proceeding under section 658A-22, 658A-23, or 658A-24, the court may add reasonable attorney's fees and other reasonable expenses of litigation incurred in a judicial proceeding after the award is made to a judgment confirming, vacating without directing a rehearing, modifying, or correcting an award. [L 2001, c 265, pt of §1]

Case Notes

  Subsection (a), which enumerates the appeals that may be taken from a court order concerning an arbitration proceeding, does not represent an exclusive list of appealable orders; thus, although not listed in subsection (a), order compelling arbitration was sufficiently final under the collateral order doctrine to be appealable under §641-1.  129 H. 378, 301 P.3d 588 (2013).

  Under subsection (c), union-appellant, representative of real party in interest city worker, was not entitled to an award of attorney's fees incurred during a proceeding filed against worker's employer to enforce an uncontested judgment confirming an arbitration award.  119 H. 201 (App.), 194 P.3d 1163 (2008).