Details
1-day course
CPD Credit: 7 hours; Competence/s: 3, 4 & 5
Course Delivery Options
Open Course: Available on scheduled dates. Contact cpdtraining@engineersireland.ie or call 01 665 1305, or check our CPD Calendar here.
Course Aim
The aim of the course is to supplement the instruction given on this topic in the four-day, Conciliator Training Programme and to enable practising conciliators to improve their skill at this aspect of conciliation. Attendance at and passing the assessment of this course will greatly assist applicants seeking to be admitted to the Engineers Ireland Panel of Conciliators.
Equally, the course will provide practising conciliators with an opportunity to refresh and develop their skills in writing recommendations when that becomes necessary.
Course Programme
The course will cover the required structure and content of a Recommendation and clearly explain how a Recommendation differs from an Adjudicator’s Decision and an Arbitrator’s Award. Tuition will be from experienced and expert conciliators and it will include panel discussions. Assessment will be based on the standard of a Recommendation for the resolution of dispute details of which will be set out in a scenario provided at the end of the day which all candidates will be required to submit.
Learning Objectives
While the primary purpose of conciliation is to achieve an agreed settlement, this is not always possible. Where agreement cannot be reached, the conciliator must issue a Recommendation for the resolution of the dispute. It is therefore essential that the conciliator has the required skill to issue a Recommendation which minimises the risk that either party will reject it. The objective of the course is to teach these skills to attendees so that they will be competent to issue a Recommendation, which will be accepted by the parties.
Who Should Attend
Those who aspire to be conciliators and are considering applying to be admitted to the Engineers Ireland Panel of Conciliators should attend this course. They should also attend the four-day EI Conciliator Training Programme. Practising conciliators should also attend this one day as it will be of benefit to them when it becomes necessary to write a Conciliator’s Recommendation. Even experienced conciliators are likely to find this course beneficial.
Trainer Profile
Brian Bond, BA, BAI, PhD, CEng., FIEI, FCIArb, Course Director
Formerly a Consulting Civil Engineer, with previous 14 years’ experience in contracting, Conciliator and Arbitrator with over 40 years’ experience of resolving disputes, creator and first Course Director of the TCD Post Graduate Diploma Course “Construction Law and Contract Administration” which has been running since 1996, formerly member of the Advisory Panel of Legal Affairs of the Institution of Civil Engineers, London and author of "Conciliation of Construction Industry Disputes" published by Routledge in October 2023.
Éamonn Conlon, SC
Solicitor, arbitrator, conciliator and accredited mediator with more than 40 years' experience of dispute resolution, most of it in construction. For more details on Éamonn Conlon, SC -
https://conlon.law/about/
Please contact the CPD Training Team for further information on scheduled course dates and In-Company options.