Forthcoming
Meetings
PLEASE NOTE CHANGE FROM
PREVIOUSLY ADVERTISED VENUE
All members are welcome to attend the following
technical meetings, which start at 6 for 6.30pm unless otherwise stated. They
are organised for you by your local branch. Attendance is free to all grades of
members and the atmosphere is informal. We especially welcome our newer
members, who can meet and share experiences with other members of all grades.
Existing and aspiring Chartered Arbitrators and
members of Panels are reminded that they are required to gain at least 60 CPD
points in each three-year period. Our technical meetings each count as 1.5 CPD
points. So whether you are looking to add to your CPD, are interested in the
topics, or just want to do some networking, why not come along?
Tea and coffee will be available before each talk
and dinner will be available at a cost of £15.00 per person, payable on
the night, for those wishing to stay afterwards. For further information on any
of the events below, please contact the South East Branch Chairman, Helena
Brown (helena.brown@mcms.co.uk).
PLEASE NOTE THAT ALL TECHNICAL MEETINGS ARE
ACCREDITED BY THE LAW SOCIETY AS 1.5 CPD HOURS
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Tuesday 9th September 2008
Bridge House
Hotel, Reigate Hill, Reigate, Surrey RH2 9RP
EXPERT or DISPUTE RESOLVER
Nicholas Cheffings, Partner, Lovells LLP
This concerns you and anyone interested in dispute
resolution.
The RICS is producing new Practice Statements on
Expert Witnesses and Surveyors Acting as Advocates. These are likely to set the
standard for all those acting as expert witnesses in property and construction
disputes. This is an extensive subject but Nicholas Cheffings will endeavour to
summarise the duties of an expert witness and the changes that are being made
in the Practice Statement. Arbitrators and Adjudicators in particular will
expect those making representations to comply and give their true opinion or
declare from the start that they are acting as advocates, but even advocates
have a duty to the tribunal. This will be a practical and essential guide .
Nicholas Cheffings is a partner in the
international law firm Lovells LLP. He heads the firm's Real Estate Disputes
team and is ranked as a leader in his field. Nicholas is a Solicitor-Advocate
and a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators. He is a PACT-qualified
Arbitrator and regularly acts as an arbitrator and as a legal assessor to
surveyor arbitrators and independent experts. Nicholas is also an ARD-Net and
CEDR-accredited mediator and has sat as a mediator on many occasions. He is the
author of a number of articles and papers in the leading property and legal
publications on a range of property topics and is a regular speaker at
conferences. Nicholas was a member of the RICS working group reviewing the
practice statement and guidance note Surveyors Acting as Expert Witnesses and
has been a consultant to the RICS Standing Review Committee (SRC).
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Wednesday 1st October 2008
Bridge House
Hotel, Reigate Hill, Reigate, Surrey RH2 9RP
"POSSIBILITIES FOR COMBINING
ARBITRATION AND MEDIATION : THE PERILS AND OPPORTUNITIES"
Teresa Cheng SC
We are delighted to welcome Teresa Cheng SC,
current CIArb President, to South East Branch in October. A highly experienced
arbitrator and Senior Counsel in Hong Kong, Teresa is a prominent international
speaker and author, and has delivered many papers on arbitration and
alternative dispute resolution worldwide. She has been involved with CIArb for
several years, having been a member of the Board of Trustees in 2005/06 and a
past Chairman of its East Asia Branch. She is a Council Member of the
International Council for Commercial Arbitration (ICCA), the China
International Economic and Trade Arbitration Committee (CIETAC) and the Asia
Pacific Users' Council of the London Court of International Arbitration (LCIA).
She is a Chartered Engineer, and has been called to the Bar in England &
Wales, Hong Kong and New South Wales. She has been admitted as a solicitor in
Singapore. She acts as advocate, mediator and arbitrator in many international
construction, commercial and investment disputes in various jurisdictions.
Teresa is also a Vice Chairperson of Hong Kong
International Arbitration Centre and is currently a member of two Working
Groups on Mediation in Hong Kong, one set up by the Chief Justice and the other
by the Secretary for Justice. In July 2003, she was appointed as Justice of the
Peace in Hong Kong and is currently the Chairman of the Transport Advisory
Committee, Chairman of the Town Planning Appeal Board and a member of the
Construction Industry Council.
Amongst all of this, Teresa has also successfully
combined mediation and arbitration. How has she made it work, and could you?
Teresa is a fascinating speaker, and this talk will be enlightening. Don't miss
it!
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Tuesday 11th November 2008 Ramada Jarvis Hotel,
8 Tonbridge Road, Pembury, Tunbridge Wells, Kent TN2 4QL Joint Meeting with the
Institution of Civil Engineers "DON'T SHOOT THE ENGINEER! - (a wide-ranging
review of the many other ways of resolving disputes) Neville Tait MA CEng FICE
FCIArb
A quick search of the internet will reveal a
plethora of different ways of resolving disputes in addition to Litigation and
Arbitration. What are they? How do they operate? Are they suitable for
resolving construction and engineering disputes? Neville will review the
alternatives on offer, including some used in the United States that you are
unlikely to have come across. At the end of the talk, you may conclude that it
is not necessary to shoot the engineer, only to ADR him!
Neville Tait has over 35 years experience in the
construction industry and is a graduate of Cambridge University in science and
engineering, a Fellow of the Institution of Civil Engineers and a Fellow of the
Chartered Institute of Arbitrators. He set up his own practice, J N Tait
Associates, at the end of 1994 specialising in arbitration, mediation and the
management of construction disputes. He is a practising Arbitrator, having
being appointed on over 330 occasions since 1988 in construction and consumer
disputes. He is included in the Panels of Arbitrators of the Institution of
Civil Engineers, the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators and the Royal
Institution of British Architects. He is also trained in various ADR techniques
and is included in the Institution of Civil Engineers' List of Conciliators,
Independent Mediation Ltd's panel of Mediators and is a founder member of the
Construction Contracts Mediators Group (CCMG).
We are very pleased to once again hold a joint
meeting with the ICE, and members of both organisations will surely derive
great benefit from Neville's unparalleled ADR experience.
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