Phase 7 · Your result

Appeals

What an appeal is for, the time limit, and what it is not for.

Who this is for:Candidates at any stage

An appeal is for an error in the review process, or for unforeseen events. It is not a way of asking for a second opinion on a professional judgement.

What ICE states

Institution of Civil Engineers

Candidates have the right to appeal where they feel there was an error in the review process, or in cases of unforeseen events.
Appeals must be received within two months of the date stated on your result letter. Appeals after this date will not be considered.
ICE recommends reading its appeals guidance and contacting your Membership Team.

Appeal window: 2months from the date on the result letterAppeals received after this date are not considered. Grounds are an error in the review process, or unforeseen events.

From Incorporated and Chartered Professional Review Guidance, Institution of Civil Engineers.

What an appeal is, and is not, for

Queensferry's reading of the stated grounds, offered to help you decide whether to spend two months on this. It is not ICE's own categorisation — read the appeals guidance.
	Within scope	Outside scope
Process	Something in the process did not happen as it should — for example, a stated adjustment was not provided.	The reviewers asked hard questions, or concentrated on an area you found difficult.
Events	An unforeseen event affected your review — for example, a failure that was not resolved as ICE's guidance provides for.	You were unwell but did not tell anyone at the time and completed the review anyway.
Judgement	You believe a decision was reached other than by the proper process.	You disagree with the reviewers' professional judgement of your competence.
Evidence	Evidence you submitted was not before the reviewers because of an administrative error.	Evidence you did not submit, but wish you had.

Queensferry's reading of the stated grounds, offered to help you decide whether to spend two months on this. It is not ICE's own categorisation — read the appeals guidance.

Before you appeal

Talk to your lead sponsor and to ICE staff first. That conversation often reveals which of two situations you are actually in — and they need different responses.

If the comments identify a real gap in your evidence, an appeal will not close it, and the two months are better spent on a re-sit application. If something genuinely went wrong with the process, act quickly: the window is two months from the date on the result letter, and it is not extended.

Either way, be fair about it. An appeal alleging that experienced reviewers simply failed to understand your work, when the comments say clearly that commercial evidence was absent, is unlikely to succeed and uses time you need for something else.

Before you spend two months on an appeal

I have read the current ICE appeals guidance, from ICE.
I have discussed the result with my lead sponsor and with ICE staff.
I can point to something in the process that did not happen as it should have, or an unforeseen event.
I am not appealing because I disagree with the reviewers' professional judgement.
I have contacted my Membership Team.
I am within two months of the date on my result letter.
I have considered whether the same two months would be better spent on a re-sit.

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