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New Committee Members
There are a number of new members who have joined Committee
who I am very pleased to welcome and these include Derek Masters,
a Civil Engineer who takes up the reins as the new Treasurer.
Martin Green, who is the course leader for the MSc in Construction
Law and Dispute Resolution at Leeds Metropolitan University,
who many members will be familiar with. In addition, Bertie
Vigrass OBE, a former Chief Executive of the Institute of Arbitrators
(as it was then) who, amongst other things, assisted in the
process of obtaining the Royal Charter for the CIArb; Rod Appleyard,
a Building and Specialist Fenestration Surveyor with Verification
Associates who also appears on television on such programmes
as ‘Watchdog’ and ‘Rogue Trader’; Anthony
Glaister, a Solicitor who is well known throughout the North
East as a Mediator and as the Chairman of the Association of
Northern Mediators and Anthony Edwards, a Barrister at Chancery
House Chambers in Leeds, have all joined the Branch Committee.
We therefore have a Committee which is a blend of new blood
and experience, drawn from a diverse range of professional backgrounds
with connections to other like minded institutions. This Institute
welcomes such an array of talent, particularly as the CIArb's
mission is to be the global home for alternative dispute resolution
(ADR), including mediation and adjudication as it is with arbitration.
In my opinion ADR is a ‘service industry’ which
faces exciting and challenging times. Although the competing
forces that are arbitration, adjudication and mediation challenge
for the spotlight, in my view the competition from those forms
of ADR provides the impetus to improve the procedures and thus
the attractiveness of each mechanism to ADR users.
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