Richard Inniss

Richard is a general practice chartered surveyor, having been in practice for over 35 years with a wide experience including building surveying, property management, valuation of all types of property, dilapidations, and commercial and residential landlord and tenant.

Currently Richard's main areas of practice are Leasehold Reform and Dispute Resolution. In respect to the latter he receives both private appointments and from the President of the RICS covering all types of landlord and tenant problems, boundary disputes and valuations. Richard is also on the RICS panel for arbitration appointments. He satisfied the requirements to become a chartered arbitrator in May 2004 having passed the special fellowship course in 1998

Richard has previously served on the council of the ISVA (now merged with the RICS), the Residential and Survey Skills panel of the RICS, and on the Dispute Resolution Faculty Board of the RICS. He has also been an external examiner for Estate Management degree courses. In his spare time Richard acts as a rugby union referee coach/advisor. He is also keen on gardening, bird watching and walking.

Colin Featherstone

Colin is a chartered quantity surveyor with over 25 years experience within both the civil engineering and building industry, primarily in the UK, spanning mining infrastructure; leisure facilities; commercial and residential property; highways, structures and tunnels and the Jubilee Line Extension. He initially worked for main contractors and a consulting engineer, before setting up as a sole practitioner in 1996 and more recently as a director of C Featherstone Associates Ltd., which was formed in May 2001.

Colin is also the company secretary and holds directorships in two recently formed companies: Plan B Consulting UK Ltd., a specialist recruitment company operating within the defence and construction arenas and Intelligent Document Solutions Ltd., an Internet based virtual office system, which has applications in project management and dispute resolution case management.

Within the past 7 years Colin has turned his focus to dispute resolution and has interspersed his own appointments as quantum expert / Expert Assessor with work as a sub-consultant with a number of claims and dispute resolution practices, in both ICC and CIMAR arbitrations, conciliation and adjudication proceedings.

Colin is currently undergoing arbitration pupilage; adjudication accreditation with various panels and CUBS Expert Witness training.