Half Price Membership of the Adjudication Society

The Adjudication Society are offering half price membership to new members.

This initiative is to encourage women and those underrepresented in adjudication to have their voice heard, get access to mentors, support and training.

On 7 November 2022, the Centre of Construction Law & Dispute Resolution at King’s College London (working in collaboration with The Adjudication Society) produced its report?‘2022 Construction Adjudication in the United Kingdom: Tracing trends and guiding reform’. One of the key finding of this was report was that only 7.88% of Adjudicators in the UK are women. The Adjudication Society is committed to improving this statistic as a first step to increasing diversity in construction adjudication more generally.

The Adjudication Society has set a target of increasing the number of female adjudicators to 30% and has identified two immediate initiatives to achieve this.

1. The Equal Representation in Adjudication Pledge, AND
2. Women in Adjudication

To learn more about the Equal Representation in Adjudication Pledge (the “Pledge”) and to take the Pledge?click here.

To learn more about Women in Adjudication and what you can do to get involved?click here.

Equal Representation in Adjudication Pledge

As a group of contractors, subcontractors, developers, legal representatives, quantity surveyors, engineers, architects, claims consultants, adjudicators, academics and others involved in the adjudication of construction disputes, we are committed to improving the profile and representation of women as adjudicators.?In particular, we consider that women should be appointed as adjudicators on an equal opportunity basis. To achieve this, we will take the steps reasonably available to us – and we will encourage other participants in adjudication to do likewise – to ensure that, wherever possible:

• committees, governing bodies and conference panels in the field of adjudication include a fair representation of women;
• lists of potential adjudicators provided to or considered by parties, legal representatives (including in-house counsel) or otherwise include a fair representation of female candidates;
• Adjudicator Nominating Bodies (ANBs) include a fair representation of female candidates on their rosters and lists of potential adjudicator appointees, where maintained by them;
• where they have the power to do so, legal representatives, adjudicators, representatives of corporates and ANBs will, when appointing adjudicators, advance equality of opportunity between male adjudicators and female adjudicators;
• gender characteristic statistics for appointments are collated and made publicly available by the ANBs and any other institutions collating data on adjudication; and
• senior and experienced adjudication practitioners support, mentor/sponsor and encourage women to pursue adjudication appointments and otherwise enhance their profiles and practice.

SIGN THE PLEDGE HERE

If you are not currently a member of the Adjudication Society and wish to join The Adjudication Society and the Women in Adjudication Group please?click here.