الخبير الشاهد: ممارسة التقييم أمام المحاكم والتحكيم – Level 3 Surveyors & Valuers Acting as Expert Witnesses – EXW-301
Surveyors & Valuers Acting as Expert Witnesses – Level 3 (EXW-301) is an advanced, 100% online, on-demand CPD programme from COMFORT-CPD Academy on the expert-witness role in courts and arbitration: 6 modules and 12 lessons built on the RICS practice statement and guidance note Surveyors acting as expert witnesses (4th edition, amended 2023), from the overriding duty to the tribunal, appointment and conflicts, investigation and evidence, the expert report and statement of truth, meetings between experts and the Single Joint Expert, to oral evidence and the advocate / expert dual role — applied to Egyptian courts under Law 96/1952 and to domestic and international arbitration. Bilingual fillable lesson PDFs, Arabic lesson videos, case study, applied test and a 20-question final exam. Professional Competency Certificate with 6 CPD hours. 30-day access.
«الخبير الشاهد: ممارسة التقييم أمام المحاكم والتحكيم – المستوى الثالث» (EXW-301) برنامج CPD متقدم أون لاين بالكامل وعند الطلب من أكاديمية كومفورت للتطوير المهني المستمر في دور الخبير الشاهد أمام المحاكم وهيئات التحكيم: 6 وحدات و12 درسًا مبنية على بيان الممارسة والمذكرة الإرشادية لـ RICS «المسّاحون العاملون كخبراء شهود» (الطبعة الرابعة، المعدّلة 2023) — من الواجب الأعلى تجاه المحكمة، والتكليف وتعارض المصالح، والمعاينة والأدلة، وتقرير الخبير وإقرار الصدق، واجتماعات الخبراء والخبير المشترك الوحيد، إلى الشهادة الشفوية والدور المزدوج بين الوكيل والخبير — بالتطبيق على المحاكم المصرية وفق القانون 96 لسنة 1952 وعلى التحكيم المحلي والدولي. دروس PDF ثنائية اللغة قابلة للتعبئة، وفيديوهات عربية، ودراسة حالة، واختبار تطبيقي، وامتحان نهائي من 20 سؤالًا. شهادة كفاءة مهنية بواقع 6 ساعات CPD. إتاحة 30 يومًا.
Surveyors & Valuers Acting as Expert Witnesses
An advanced professional programme built on the RICS practice statement and guidance note Surveyors acting as expert witnesses, preparing valuers and surveyors to give independent expert evidence before Egyptian courts and domestic or international arbitral tribunals — from appointment and the overriding duty, through the expert report and statement of truth, to cross-examination and the advocate / expert dual role.
برنامج مهني متقدم مبني على بيان الممارسة والمذكرة الإرشادية لـ RICS «المسّاحون العاملون كخبراء شهود»، يُعدّ خبراء التقييم والمسّاحين لتقديم دليل خبير مستقل أمام المحاكم المصرية وهيئات التحكيم المحلية والدولية — من التكليف والواجب الأعلى، مرورًا بتقرير الخبير وإقرار الصدق، إلى الاستجواب المقابل والدور المزدوج بين الوكيل والخبير.
Your Duty Is to the Tribunal, Not to the Party Paying You
Valuers and surveyors are called into disputes every day — inheritance and partition cases, expropriation and compensation, rent and lease disputes, shareholder and M&A valuations, construction and insurance claims, and arbitrations seated in Cairo, Dubai, London or Paris. The moment your opinion is put before a judge or an arbitral tribunal, you stop being the client's adviser and become the tribunal's expert. The rules of that role are strict, and a report that ignores them is worth very little in the hearing room.
This programme teaches those rules. It is built lesson by lesson on the RICS practice statement and guidance note Surveyors acting as expert witnesses (4th edition, amended 2023) — the mandatory duties in PS 1–10 and the good practice in GN 1–21 — and applies them to Egyptian practice under Law 96/1952 on experts before the courts, the Evidence Law 25/1968 and the Arbitration Law 27/1994, and to international arbitration under the IBA Rules on the Taking of Evidence and the CIArb protocol for party-appointed experts.
يُستدعى خبراء التقييم والمسّاحون إلى المنازعات كل يوم — قضايا الميراث والقسمة، ونزع الملكية والتعويض، ومنازعات الإيجار والتأجير، وتقييمات المساهمين والاندماج والاستحواذ، ومطالبات المقاولات والتأمين، والتحكيمات المنعقدة في القاهرة أو دبي أو لندن أو باريس. وفي اللحظة التي يُعرض فيها رأيك على قاضٍ أو هيئة تحكيم، تتوقف عن كونك مستشار العميل وتصبح خبير المحكمة. قواعد هذا الدور صارمة، والتقرير الذي يتجاهلها لا يساوي كثيرًا في قاعة الجلسة.
هذا البرنامج يعلّمك تلك القواعد. فهو مبني درسًا درسًا على بيان الممارسة والمذكرة الإرشادية لـ RICS «المسّاحون العاملون كخبراء شهود» (الطبعة الرابعة، المعدّلة 2023) — الواجبات الإلزامية في PS 1–10 والممارسة الجيدة في GN 1–21 — ويطبّقها على الممارسة المصرية وفق القانون 96 لسنة 1952 بشأن تنظيم الخبرة أمام جهات القضاء وقانون الإثبات 25 لسنة 1968 وقانون التحكيم 27 لسنة 1994، وعلى التحكيم الدولي وفق قواعد IBA لأخذ الأدلة وبروتوكول CIArb لخبراء الأطراف.
مستقل، محايد، مكتمل… وقابل للدفاع.
Built for Professionals Whose Opinion Ends Up in Front of a Judge
This programme is for valuers, surveyors and technical professionals who are, or expect to be, appointed to give expert evidence — by a party, by a court or by an arbitral tribunal — and for the lawyers who instruct them.
FRA-Registered Valuers
Real-estate, business and machinery valuers whose reports are challenged, relied upon or ordered in Egyptian court proceedings.
Court-Appointed Experts
Experts on the Ministry of Justice roll and consultant experts engaged by parties under Law 96/1952 who want the international standard for their reports.
Arbitration Experts
Party-appointed and tribunal-appointed experts in domestic arbitration under Law 27/1994 and in international arbitration (CRCICA, DIAC, ICC, LCIA).
Surveyors & Engineers
Quantity surveyors, building surveyors and engineers giving evidence on defects, delay, quantum and measurement.
RICS Candidates & Members
APC candidates and members evidencing the Conflict Avoidance competency at Level 3 and preparing for expert-witness work.
Lawyers Who Instruct Experts
Litigators and arbitration counsel who instruct valuation experts and need to know what a compliant report and a credible witness look like.
6 Modules · 12 Lessons — From the Overriding Duty to the Witness Box
The curriculum follows the life of an expert-witness appointment in the order the RICS practice statement sets it out: the role and duty, appointment and fees, investigation and evidence, the report, the exchange between experts, and oral evidence. Every module names the PS and GN sections it teaches.
The Expert Witness Role & the Overriding Duty
RICS PS 1 · PS 2 · GN 1–4 · GN 212 lessons · 1 CPD hourWhat makes evidence expert evidence, how it differs from advice, evidence of fact and advocacy, and the duty that governs everything else: the expert's overriding duty to the tribunal, which overrides any contractual duty to the client. Independence, impartiality, completeness and the limits of expertise — with the Egyptian framework for court experts under Law 96/1952 and the expert's immunity.
- 1.1Expert evidence, advice, fact and advocacy — who is an expert witness · الدليل الخبير والمشورة وشهادة الواقع والدفاع — من هو الخبير الشاهد
- 1.2The overriding duty to the tribunal: independence, impartiality, completeness · الواجب الأعلى تجاه المحكمة: الاستقلال والحيدة والاكتمال
Appointment, Instructions, Conflicts & Fees
RICS PS 3 · PS 10 · GN 5 · GN 18–20 · App. A2 lessons · 1 CPD hourThe appointment stage done properly: the three conditions for accepting instructions, what must be put to the client in writing before acceptance, the terms of engagement, the written record of instructions, the conflict-of-interest check before and after appointment, the basis of charging fees and why conditional or success-based fees are prohibited for an expert witness.
- 2.1Accepting instructions and the terms of engagement · قبول التعليمات وشروط التكليف
- 2.2Conflicts of interest, fee basis and the ban on conditional fees · تعارض المصالح وأساس الأتعاب وحظر الأتعاب المشروطة
Investigation, Inspection & Evidence
RICS PS 4 · GN 5–92 lessons · 1 CPD hourBuilding the evidential base of a valuation opinion: when an inspection is required and what to say when it falls short, documents and disclosure, the line between evidence of fact and opinion evidence, assumptions and instructed assumptions, ranges of opinion, and written questions put to the expert and their answers.
- 3.1Inspections, investigations and documents · المعاينة والتحقيقات والمستندات
- 3.2Evidence of fact vs opinion evidence: assumptions and ranges of opinion · دليل الواقع مقابل دليل الرأي: الافتراضات ونطاقات الرأي
The Expert Witness Report
RICS PS 5 · PS 6 · GN 12–132 lessons · 1 CPD hourThe report that carries the evidence: the mandatory contents from qualifications and material instructions to methodology, literature relied upon, material facts and assumptions, separate opinions on disputed facts, qualifications of opinion and the summary of conclusions — then the statement of truth and the six declarations, and how to amend a report after disclosure without distorting your true opinion. Applied to the Egyptian court expert report (تقرير الخبير) and the arbitration expert report.
- 4.1Form and content of the expert witness report · شكل تقرير الخبير الشاهد ومحتواه
- 4.2Statement of truth, declarations and amending the report · إقرار الصدق والإقرارات وتعديل التقرير
Between Experts: Meetings, Joint Statements & the Single Joint Expert
RICS PS 7 · PS 8 · GN 8 · GN 14–162 lessons · 1 CPD hourAgreeing facts and narrowing differences with the counterpart expert, the joint statement of matters agreed and not agreed with reasons, following tribunal directions over client instructions, meetings with the client's team — and the Single Joint Expert appointed for both parties, compared with the court-appointed expert in Egypt and the tribunal-appointed expert under Arbitration Law 27/1994 and international rules.
- 5.1Agreeing facts, narrowing differences and the joint statement · الاتفاق على الوقائع وتضييق الخلاف والبيان المشترك
- 5.2The Single Joint Expert and tribunal-appointed experts · الخبير المشترك الوحيد والخبراء المعيَّنون من المحكمة أو هيئة التحكيم
Oral Evidence, Advocacy & the Dual Role
RICS PS 5.5 · PS 9 · PS 10 · GN 10–11 · GN 172 lessons · 1 CPD hourGiving evidence in the hearing room: preparation, declaring your expertise and duty when no written report has been lodged, cross-examination, concurrent evidence and advising advocates without becoming one. Then the sharpest line in the practice statement — expert witness versus surveyor-advocate — when a dual role is permitted, what must be disclosed to client and tribunal, and how conditional fees interact with it.
- 6.1Giving oral evidence: hearing, cross-examination and concurrent evidence · أداء الشهادة الشفوية: الجلسة والاستجواب المقابل والشهادة المتزامنة
- 6.2Expert witness vs advocate: the dual role and its disclosure · الخبير الشاهد مقابل الوكيل: الدور المزدوج والإفصاح عنه
A.1 · Applied Case Study
A contested property valuation before an Egyptian court: you act as the party-appointed expert and take the file from instructions to a compliant expert report.
A.2 · Report Compliance Test
Audit an expert report against the mandatory PS 5.4 contents, the statement of truth and the declarations, and identify what would fail before a tribunal.
A.3 · Final Exam
20 multiple-choice questions across the six modules, one attempt, 75% (15/20) to pass and qualify for the certificate.
What You Will Be Able to Do
From Valuer to Credible Expert Witness
Expert-witness work is the most demanding, and best remunerated, use of a valuer's judgement. It is also where reputations are made or lost in a single cross-examination. The programme gives you the discipline the tribunal expects.
Six Core Competencies
The expert's duty · appointment and conflicts · evidence and inspection · report writing · meetings between experts · oral evidence.
Court Expert
Serve as a party-appointed consultant expert or alongside the court-appointed expert in Egyptian civil, commercial and family courts.
Arbitration Expert
Take party-appointed or tribunal-appointed expert roles in domestic and international arbitration with a report format tribunals recognise.
Report Author
Write expert reports that survive scrutiny: complete, reasoned, qualified where necessary and verified by a statement of truth.
Single Joint Expert
Accept SJE appointments for both parties, manage instructions from two sides and report equally to all.
Professional Competency Evidence
A Professional Competency Certificate from COMFORT-CPD Academy carrying 6 CPD hours, with a unique verifiable certificate ID.
Study on Your Schedule, to the RICS Standard
📚 How You Study
طريقة الدراسة
- 100% online and on demand on the COMFORT-CPD Academy platform, with 30-day access from enrolment. — أون لاين بالكامل وعند الطلب على منصة الأكاديمية، مع إتاحة 30 يومًا من تاريخ التسجيل.
- 6 modules · 12 lessons · Level 3 Advanced · 6 CPD hours. — 6 وحدات · 12 درسًا · المستوى الثالث متقدم · 6 ساعات تطوير مهني.
- Each lesson: a bilingual (English / Arabic) illustrated fillable PDF with a visual guide and a 5-question self-scoring quiz, plus an Arabic narrated lesson video. — كل درس: ملف PDF مصوَّر ثنائي اللغة قابل للتعبئة مع دليل بصري واختبار ذاتي من 5 أسئلة، وفيديو درس عربي مسجَّل.
- Assessment: A.1 applied case study, A.2 report compliance test, A.3 final exam — 20 MCQs, one attempt, 75% to pass. — التقييم: أ.1 دراسة حالة تطبيقية، أ.2 اختبار توافق التقرير، أ.3 امتحان نهائي — 20 سؤالًا، محاولة واحدة، النجاح 75%.
- Course code EXW-301 · LMS ID COMFORT-CPD-EXW-301-2026 · provider COMFORT-CPD Academy (Comfort360, FRA-licensed). — كود البرنامج EXW-301 · الجهة المقدمة أكاديمية كومفورت للتطوير المهني المستمر (كومفورت 360، مرخّصة من الهيئة العامة للرقابة المالية).
📐 Standards & Legal Framework
المعايير والإطار القانوني
- RICS — practice statement and guidance note Surveyors acting as expert witnesses, 4th edition (2014, amended Feb 2023): PS 1–10 mandatory duties, GN 1–21 good practice. — بيان الممارسة والمذكرة الإرشادية «المسّاحون العاملون كخبراء شهود»، الطبعة الرابعة المعدّلة 2023.
- CPR Part 35 / PD 35 — the statement-of-truth wording adopted by RICS and used across common-law tribunals. — قواعد الإجراءات المدنية الإنجليزية الجزء 35: صيغة إقرار الصدق التي اعتمدتها RICS.
- Egypt — Law 96/1952 on experts before the courts, Evidence Law 25/1968 and Arbitration Law 27/1994 (tribunal-appointed experts). — مصر: القانون 96 لسنة 1952 بتنظيم الخبرة أمام جهات القضاء، وقانون الإثبات 25 لسنة 1968، وقانون التحكيم 27 لسنة 1994.
- International arbitration — IBA Rules on the Taking of Evidence (2020) and the CIArb Protocol for the Use of Party-Appointed Expert Witnesses. — التحكيم الدولي: قواعد IBA لأخذ الأدلة (2020) وبروتوكول CIArb لخبراء الأطراف.
- Certificate: Professional Competency Certificate — 6 CPD hours — issued on passing the final exam. This programme teaches the RICS standard; it is not an RICS-accredited qualification. — الشهادة: شهادة كفاءة مهنية بواقع 6 ساعات CPD تُصدر عند النجاح في الامتحان النهائي. يدرّس البرنامج معيار RICS وليس مؤهلًا معتمدًا من RICS.
A Certificate That Counts
Professional Competency Certificate — 6 CPD Hours
Complete the 12 lessons, the case study and the compliance test, then pass the 20-question final exam at 75% to receive the official COMFORT-CPD Academy Professional Competency Certificate for Surveyors & Valuers Acting as Expert Witnesses – Level 3 (EXW-301), carrying 6 CPD hours and a unique verifiable certificate ID — recorded toward your annual CPD record and your professional-body competency evidence.
أكمل الدروس الاثني عشر ودراسة الحالة واختبار التوافق، ثم انجح في الامتحان النهائي من 20 سؤالًا بنسبة 75% لتحصل على شهادة الكفاءة المهنية الرسمية من أكاديمية كومفورت للتطوير المهني المستمر في «الخبير الشاهد: ممارسة التقييم أمام المحاكم والتحكيم – المستوى الثالث» (EXW-301)، بواقع 6 ساعات CPD وبرقم تحقق فريد — تُدرج ضمن سجل التطوير المهني السنوي وأدلة الكفاءة لدى الهيئات المهنية.
Training Built by a Practice That Gives Expert Evidence
FRA-Licensed Valuation Firm
COMFORT-CPD Academy is the training arm of Comfort360 (Comfort Valuation Assets), a valuation practice licensed by Egypt's Financial Regulatory Authority that prepares expert statements for courts and arbitration.
Built on the RICS Standard
Every module is mapped to the PS and GN sections of the RICS practice statement, with the Egyptian and international arbitration layers added.
Bilingual, Court-Ready Terminology
English and Arabic side by side, so the terms you learn are the terms you will read in the RICS text, the Egyptian court file and the arbitration order.
Verifiable CPD Certificates
Digital certificates with a unique verifiable ID, counted toward your annual CPD record.
Frequently Asked Questions
Is this the same as the Conflict Avoidance & Dispute Resolution programme? · هل هذا هو برنامج تجنب النزاعات وتسوية المنازعات نفسه؟
Does it cover Egyptian courts or international arbitration? · هل يغطي المحاكم المصرية أم التحكيم الدولي؟
Is the certificate an RICS qualification? · هل الشهادة مؤهل من RICS؟
What language is the programme in? · ما لغة البرنامج؟
How is the programme assessed? · كيف يُقيَّم البرنامج؟
How long do I have access? · ما مدة الإتاحة؟
I need an expert statement for a case now, not a course — where do I go? · أحتاج إلى إفادة خبير لقضية الآن وليس دورة — إلى أين أتوجه؟
How do I enrol? · كيف أسجل في البرنامج؟
Give Evidence the Tribunal Can Rely On. Become a Credible Expert Witness.
Six modules, twelve lessons, the RICS practice statement applied to Egyptian courts and international arbitration, a case study, a compliance test, a 20-question final exam and a Professional Competency Certificate carrying 6 CPD hours. Join Surveyors & Valuers Acting as Expert Witnesses – Level 3 (EXW-301) today.
ست وحدات، واثنا عشر درسًا، وبيان ممارسة RICS مطبَّقًا على المحاكم المصرية والتحكيم الدولي، ودراسة حالة، واختبار توافق، وامتحان نهائي من 20 سؤالًا، وشهادة كفاءة مهنية بواقع 6 ساعات CPD. انضم اليوم إلى برنامج «الخبير الشاهد: ممارسة التقييم أمام المحاكم والتحكيم – المستوى الثالث» (EXW-301).