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IMPORTANT NOTE:
- For participants who are keen to utilise your Skills Future Credit, please inform Secretariat PRIOR to registration and making payment. Secretariat will inform you on the proper procedure to ensure that you can claim your credits successfully.
- For participants who would like to be exempted from Module 1, please proceed to select the correct category upon registration (Full Course with Module 1 Exemption) and complete payment. Secretariat will follow up with you on the supporting documents once your registration is received. If, we are ultimately unable to verify that you are eligible for an exemption, Secretariat will arrange for participant to top-up the difference
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The Singapore Institute of Arbitrators (SIArb) is pleased to announce the 2025 edition of its Fellowship Assessment Course (“FAC” or “Course”) is now open for registration. The FAC will focus on teaching candidates the practical aspects of acting as an arbitrator. To benefit from FAC, candidates should already have a sound grasp of the law of arbitration.
This Course consists of 6 modules with a total of 9 self-study lectures, 6 live practical workshops and an online Award Writing Examination:
• Module 1 will cover the basic concepts and principles on the sources of law, the law of contract, the law of tort, and the treatment of evidence. Candidates who have obtained a degree in law from a university or other tertiary institution recognised by the SIArb (or such other legal qualifications as the SIArb may in its absolute discretion accept) are exempted from Module 1 and Practical Workshop 1. All other candidates are required to attend Module 1 and attend Practical Workshop 1
• Module 2 relates to (i) the acceptance of an arbitral appointment, covering topics such as conducting conflict checks and making disclosures before or when accepting an appointment; (ii) dealing with jurisdictional challenges; and (iii) emergency arbitrations.
• Module 3 covers (i) case management in conducting an arbitration; (ii) techniques for controlling time and costs in an arbitration; and (iii) drafting procedural orders.
• Module 4 covers (i) dealing with interlocutory applications; (ii) drafting discovery orders; (iii) dealing with costs of interlocutory applications; (iv) dealing with extension of time applications and guerilla tactics; and (v) dealing with preliminary issues.
• Module 5 covers the conduct of the evidentiary hearing.
• Finally, Module 6 covers the practical aspects of actually writing the Final Award.
In the Practical Workshops, lecturers and tutors will address questions from candidates and show practical examples of an arbitrator’s work product such as procedural orders, Redfern Schedules, discovery orders and interim awards. In Practical Workshop 6, the lecturer of Module 6 will dissect a sample award to see how it should, or should not, be written.
In the Award Writing Examination, candidates will be required to write an enforceable final award.
Criteria for Admission to FAC
- Lawyers or non-lawyers who have at least 10 years of involvement in litigation, arbitration or dispute resolution; OR
- Lawyers or non-lawyers who are or have been active arbitrators, and can provide documentary evidence of such experience; OR
- Those who have successfully completed the International Entry Course conducted by SIArb or such other equivalent course as may be recognised by SIArb; OR
- Those whom SIArb, at its absolute discretion and in the particular circumstances of the case, considers to be suitable candidates for the FAC.