Adjudication Decision Writing Short Course
Program start date | Application deadline |
2025-06-01 | - |
Program Overview
This six-week non-credit course provides an overview of construction adjudication procedures and decision-making. Led by industry experts, it covers evidence analysis, decision structuring, and communication with parties. Assessment involves an open-book exam, and the course is suitable for professionals in arbitration, mediation, and adjudication, as well as students and graduates in construction law.
Program Outline
Outline:
This is an optional non-credit-bearing six-week course consisting of four weeks of online tuition followed by the decision writing assessment.
What You Will Study:
By the conclusion of this course, you should be able to:
- Appreciate the relevance, context and importance of procedural requirements in adjudication
- Draft letters and communicate with the parties to deal with procedural issues and take appropriate decisions as necessary
- Analyse the evidence and facts in issue and apply these concepts and the rules
- Master the law of evidence as it applies in adjudication
- Develop analysis and reasoning in a decision
- Structure an enforceable decision covering all substantive and procedural issues in clear, precise and determinative language
Assessment:
Assessment will be made by way of open book assessment at a venue arranged in accordance with the University’s procedures. Advance papers will be released around a week before the deadline during which time students will be able to part-prepare their award. The notes of Evidence will released in the exam venue for submission of the complete awards at that time. Students are assessed by a written exam, which takes an average time of 5 hours to complete.
Teaching:
The course will be taught by industry experts - practicing construction adjudicators, chartered architects and arbitrators. Our virtual learning environment, CampusMoodle, allows you to communicate easily with tutors and fellow students, providing all the help and support needed for studying in any location across the world.
Weekly Activities:
You will get a sequence of Topics, each with detailed notes and, at the end, a weekly Activity. Students will be invited to submit their answer for these Activities to obtain feedback from tutors.
Independent Study:
The topic notes and additional reading will provide the necessary information. Students, however, will be encouraged to read widely around the topics and discuss the relevant issues between themselves and with the tutors on the forum.
Careers:
This course is for arbitrators, mediators and adjudicators, or anyone with a professional interest in construction adjudication and Alternative Dispute Resolution (ADR). The course will develop your knowledge of construction adjudication and enhance your career opportunities in this sector as a neutral (adjudicator), legal counsel or a claims management professional.
Other:
This course is primarily for Construction Law and Arbitration/Adjudication LLM/MSc students or recent graduates. However, if you have obtained the relevant knowledge or experience elsewhere, please get in touch with us to discuss whether the course is suitable for you.
For Academic Year 2022/2023 All Students: £720 for entire course