DRS Training Courses

Adjudication Competencies Programme

Name: Adjudication Competencies Programme
Location: Adjudication Competencies Programme

Thu 08 May 2025 - Thu 12 Jun 2025 • 09:00 - 17:00 BST • 24 Hours Formal CPD

RICS Offices – see below for location

In-Person

From £425 + VAT

Overview

The Dispute Resolution Service (DRS) has developed this programme to enhance the skills and knowledge of those practising as adjudicators. These core competencies are recognised by RICS as pre-requisites for adjudicators.

Are you an RICS Panellist?
If you are an RICS Panellist, please enrol here.

Who is this course for?

This programme is open to you if you are an adjudication practitioner or studying the field of adjudication. These competencies will ensure that as a practicing adjudicator, you are continuously improving your knowledge, skills and practical abilities. It also counts towards your CPD.

What core competencies will I develop?

Each competency will present current practice and current thinking. Its purpose is to raise standards and hone existing skills to raise levels of practice and competence.

The Appointment of the Adjudicator

The Adjudication Process

Adjudication Practice and Procedure

The Decision

What does the course cover?

The Appointment of the Adjudicator

At Adjudicator appointment stage and thereafter identifying & dealing with conflicts of interest when acting as a tribunal.

Dealing with jurisdictional challenges when acting as a tribunal at all stages of the adjudication process.

The Adjudication Process

Maintaining and controlling the process of an adjudication from appointment through to post decision. Addressing the management of an adjudication.

Adjudication Practice and Procedure

Contractual interpretation – such as interpretation of terms of written contracts involving ascertaining the meaning of the words, taking into consideration the context and what they would mean to a reasonable person with the relevant background and knowledge, that was available to the parties at the time the contract was formed.

Current trends will be adapted for each workshop to cover modern trends that are developing in adjudication.

The Decision

Managing evidence leading to understanding what it entails to produce a written Decision. What is expected of a party to support its pleaded case by way of evidence and then from these submissions cover how an adjudicator identifies the issues in dispute and how they then assimilates the evidence presented by the parties in support of the contested issues.

How an adjudicator goes about formulating a decision and the process followed to draft a well reasoned and enforceable decision.

Course format

The Panel Competency Programme takes shape in interactive face to face workshops. Each competency workshop will be taught over one full day (09:00 – 17:00).

Workshop	Date	Location
Workshop 1	Wed 14 May 2025	RICS Office Birmingham
Workshop 2	Thu 8 May 2025	RICS Office Birmingham
Workshop 3	Thu 12 June 2025	RICS Office London

The programme of workshops will focus on practical issues, which adjudicators face daily. They will be “practitioner” level and concerned with real-life problems.

Adjudicators will be encouraged to discuss issues with other participants and, where appropriate, challenge other adjudicators’ approaches to how they would deal with practical problems.

Do the workshops need to be completed in order?

Workshops 1-3 can be completed in any order but workshop 4 must be completed last and within 12 months prior to your reassessment date. The workshops will be followed with an assessment which will be incorporated into the reassessment programme.

Assessment

At the end of Workshop 4 you will be required to complete a written assignment. You will obtain a certificate for successfully completing the full RICS Adjudication Competency Programme.

Download the course guide

Adjudication Competencies Brochure (PDF 0.18MB)

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