RICS Wales Introduction to Adjudication

Overview

This face to face discussion is being led by RICS Wales Board Member, Simon Yates who is a Director at Rowfields, a firm that specialises in providing Commercial Management, Dispute Resolution and Project Services to the construction industry.

Simon is the current Vice Chair of the Wales Branch of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators (Chair 2020-2024), and will focus on the following during this introduction to adjudication

1. Payment regime and environment before 1998
2. The Latham Report – “Constructing the team”
3. The “Construction Act” 1996
4. Early adjudication cases
5. The LDEDC Act 2009
6. Adjudication today
7. Careers in Adjudication

Simon is both a panel adjudicator, and a capable adjudication party representative and has acted in many disputes, drafting submissions, citing relevant case law and preparing quantum and extension of time claims. He is also an RICS Registered Expert Witness, having been certified by the RICS as both a competent author of independent expert reports and comfortable under cross examination.

Academically, Simon holds a University Diploma in Surveying Practice, a Degree in Quantity Surveying, a Post Graduate Diploma in Adjudication and a Master of Laws Degree in Construction Law and Adjudication with Distinction. He is also on the Approved Faculty List of Tutors (Adjudication Pathway) for the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators.

He is a South-West Subcommittee Member and Treasurer for the Adjudication Society, and a member of the Society of Construction Law.”