MEMBERSHIP AND EXAMS - ASSESSMENT FOR THE FELLOWSHIP PROGRAMME

This programme should be undertaken after you have been successful in the Personal Assessment for the Fellowship Course and the Part III Examinations. It requires you to:

1. Be attached to a Pupil Master and complete:

• attend at least two preliminary meetings and draft the subsequent orders;
• attend at least two days of one or more arbitration hearings, at which the parties are legally or professionally represented and if possible draft an Award;
• documents only arbitration Awards;
• receive a satisfactory written report from your Pupil Master, which must be submitted with your application.

2. Attend the CIArb Demonstration Hearing, which consists of a one-day arbitration hearing at which both Parties are legally represented.

• You must make note of all the relevant evidence and after the hearing draft an Award for discussion and comment from your Pupil Master.
• This hearing is compulsory, unless you are able to write an Award after attending an arbitration hearing under 1. sub-para. 2 above.

3. Attend a Practical Arbitration Training Course

• This consists of one and a half days of discussion workshops based on a dispute which has been referred to arbitration. Both parties have representation and various situations are highlighted for discussion in small groups. Written exercises may also be included.

EXEMPTIONS

If you believe that your experience entitles you to:

• Exemption from any of the steps, you should seek advice from your Pupil Master who will, if he/she thinks fit, make recommendation on your behalf.
• Being attached to a Pupil Master, for example because you have already conducted three hearings and can produce your Awards, you should write to the Membership Secretary, detailing your arbitral experience and she will seek a decision from the Professional Committee. The decision is entirely at the Committee's discretion and reasons for rejection may not be provided.

Attend an Interview

During the interview you will be expected to demonstrate to the Panel that you have sufficient knowledge of the relevant law of contract, tort, evidence and arbitration to deal with an arbitration unsupervised. You will also have to show that you have the personal qualities to deal fairly with all aspects of a dispute and to efficiently deal with all matters, including providing an enforceable Award. When you have passed the Interview, you may apply to be elected a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators and once elected you will be permitted to use the title 'Chartered Arbitrator'.