After its GDLP was rubbished by the CJ NSW Andrew Bell, The College Of Law dresses up its GDLP as a PLT Certificate Of Completion- College has a history of withholding a PLT certificate of completion to protect corporate and personal interests

 by Ganesh Sahathevan

The College of Law Australia seems to have conjured a scheme to salvage its wholly and completely discredited Graduate Certificate Of Legal Practice, by portraying it as a Certificate Of PLT Completion that it will submit to the NSW LPAB.

This is odd, for completion of the PLT is determined by the PLT student being issued a Certificate Of Completion which the student submits to the NSW LPAB.

Indeed it is disturbing that the NSW LPAB would permit this scheme, given the College's history of withholding a Certificate Of Completion on at least one instance, as a condition that the student, this writer, withdraws questions and comments as a journalist about the College' and its CEO Neville Carter's business and history in Malaysia. The NSW LPAB own records provide evidence of that misconduct,and abuse of power.

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June 24, 2020

by Ganesh Sahathevan

                                                     
                                                               
The Hon Chief Justice Susan Kiefel AC has relied on the findings of a one person inquiry to publicly condemn a former justice of the High Court.



Certificates issued pursuant to  Regulation 19 (Reg 19) of The Legal Profession Uniform Admission Rules certify to admitting bodies such as the NSW Legal Profession Admission Board that law graduates who seek  admission to practise law have not been subject to disciplinary action while pursuing their legal studies,  including the compulsory  Professional Legal Training course.The NSW Law Society was made aware and queried about these issues but chose to remain silent. 

Reg 19 is applied broadly to include anything that the issuer might find offensive, or threatening to its business. Consequently the power to issue the certificate can be used to force the withdrawal of any adverse reports against the issuer.The College Of Law and the NSW LPAB's attempts to hinder and discredit an investigation by this writer into the College's business practises in Australia and Malaysia is a case in point.  

It is doubtful that Reg 19 was meant to be used for anything other than academic misconduct. It is clear that it is being abused, and one cannot tell if that abuse has included concealment of complaints of sexual harassment. It is left to Chief Justice Kiefel to follow through with her investigations to determine if this has been the case.

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LEGAL PROFESSION UNIFORM ADMISSION RULES 2015 - REG 19

Student conduct reports

19 Student conduct reports 

(1) An application for a compliance certificate must include a report by:

(a) any tertiary academic institution at which the applicant obtained the academic qualification upon which the applicant relies as satisfying the requirements of rule 5 (1), and 

(b) any practical legal training provider attended by the applicant, 

about the conduct of the applicant. 

(2) A report under subrule (1) must reveal:

(a) whether or not the applicant was the subject of any disciplinary action, howsoever described, taken by the institution or the provider, and 

(b) the outcome of any such disciplinary action, and 

must be prepared within 6 months before the application is made. 

(3) If the Board so requests in writing, the applicant must take all reasonable steps to cause the institution or practical legal training provider referred to in subrule (1) to provide for inspection or copying by the Board any documents that are relevant to the Board's consideration of any disciplinary action referred to in subrule (2).

Drastic changes to Australia's legal training and admission rules a revelation to lawyers and potential clients in ASEAN who have been led to believe that Australian judges and lawyers offer a premium service ,and are worth their higher fees,5 star hotel stay, first class travel......

 by Ganesh Sahathevan 

                            

Australia hopes to exercie soft power via LAWASIA, but has never admitted to problems of corruption within the legal system in Australia itself

In October 2025 the Chief Justice Of NSW, Andrew Bell demolished Australia's decades old Practial Legal Training, a prerequisite for admission to practise ,declaring it not fit for purpose, and not worth the money. Bell's decision in the matter is long overdue, but it was the NSW Legal Profession Admission Board which he now heads, that defended and permitted the scandal of the PLT.

The NSW LAPB did so despite decades old complaints about the PLT, that are  a matter of public record. Those complaints and more were given recent publicity after Bell commenced his campaign against the PLT and its main provider, the College Of Law, in February 2025. 

The former CEO of The College Of Law, Neville Carter, has claimed that he has trained over 100,000 lawyers, some of whom are likely to have become judges, and thus the problem of the not fit for purpose PLT is widespread and goes to the core of Australian legal professional standards and skills.

However, despite the severity of the problem little has been done  to inform the public here and the rest of this region where Australian lawyers and judges habitually seek work, touting themselves as having the training and knowledge to provide a premium service. The Law Council Australia and LAWASIA, who are normally ever ready to admonish ASEAN lawyers and judges who they feel are not up to mark, have been especially silent. Of course, if they were to do so it would be difficult for Australian lawyers and judges seeking work in ASEAN  to justify their demands for higher fees, first class travel and 5 star hotel stay. The English language skills argument has failed,given the number of UK lawyers who have established themselves in Singapore.

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Thursday, July 23, 2020

Concerns over HK as a forum for arbitration, but arbitration lawyers would rather go to Paris, London ,Singapore and avoid Australia: Australian lawyers losing valuable work, but will still not admit that they have a Malaysian type Eusoffe Chin problem

by Ganesh Sahathevan






Japan Times has reported (quoting Bloomberg): 

International companies are increasingly avoiding Hong Kong as a jurisdiction for settling disputes through arbitration, one of the clearest signs yet that China’s tightening grip on the financial hub has eroded trust in its legal system.

Businesses are instead choosing rival hubs like Singapore, Paris and London, according to interviews with arbitration lawyers, a shift that has accelerated since the Chinese government bypassed Hong Kong’s legislature to impose a sweeping national security law.

While it is true that Hong and Singapore have been the preferred forums for arbitration due to proximity to the parties, the fact that parties and arbitration lawyers would prefer far away Paris and London to Australia given the current concerns about Hong Kong raises the question: why are arbitration lawyers and parties avoiding Australia, despite this being a well established, English speaking common law jurisdiction?

The matter of Australian judges ignoring precedent and instead using their courts and public standing to promote personal agendas, no matter how noble, is quite likely a factor.

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Sunday, February 16, 2020

Australia's legal profession faces its Eusoffe Chin moment, but will Australians show the same courage as Malaysians did in seeking judicial reform? For details of the problem in Australia see documents on NSW Dept Of Justice website

by Ganesh Sahathevan

Eusoff Chin,2nd from left ,standing next

to disgraced Malaysian lawyer VK Lingam

In 2018 Australian defamation judge Judith Gibson told ABC Radio:

Judge Gibson described defamation proceedings as a "trial by ambush" that may actually prevent the truth from coming out.

"That's not a system of law that is going to attract admiration and respect from other countries or large companies wanting to do business in Australia."
Judge Gibson is calling on her profession to be more courageous and agitate for legal reform.
"If we don't affect changes, we are going to have a significant loss of faith in the courts as the significant provider of justice, and that is a matter of great concern."

Judge Gibson's warning would not be unfamiliar to lawyers in Malaysia who can recall former Chief Justice Eusoff Chin's gross distortion of Malaysia's defamation laws, which then led to a number of other questionable decisions, and consequently loss of faith in Malaysia's courts. 

The situation was somewhat reversed when Eusoffe was ejected after a concerted effort by Malaysia's lawyers and journalists, who were assisted in no small part by a story from Australia's ABC Radio Asia Pacific, reported by Di Martin.  

A landmark decision of the NSW Supreme Court against Malaysia's Vincent Tan also played a part.

The situation in Australia's courts today, especially in the State Of NSW, is as bad if not approaching that of Malaysia under the reign of Eusoffe Chin.An analysis of how bad may be found in an submission by this writer that can be found on the Department Of Justice NSW website at the links below:

Review of model defamation provisions - NSW Justice

www.justice.nsw.gov.au › defamationreview

Ganesh Sahathevan [PDF, 125kb] · Gary Duffy [PDF, 645kb] · Google [PDF, 142kb] · John O'Shannassy [PDF 30kb] · Law Council of Australia ...



The Australian Bar and the Law Society Australia have been frequent and forceful critics of judicial corruption in Malaysia'. It is left to be seen whether they are going to be as forceful as courageous as their Malaysian counterparts in removing their Eusoffe Chins.

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Drastic changes to Australia's legal training and admission rules  a revelation to  lawyers and potential clients in ASEAN who  have been led to believe that Australian judges and lawyers are worth the higher fees , first class travel,and five star  hotel stay they demand

Albanese and fellow hunters for savings can train crosshairs on Tom Bathiurst's AUD 75 Million pa gift to the College Of Law , a "nice to have" proven to be a waste of money by his successor Andrew Bell

 by Ganesh Sahathevan

 Bathurst and his LPAB went to extraodinary lenghts to defend the College Of Law and its PLT

                          Albanese will want the money Bathurst gifted the College Of Law

The SMH and The Age headline declares:

‘No nice-to-haves’: Albanese demands ministers find billions in savings for May budget

In that regard readers of this blog will be aware that as a  result of the NSW LPAB's misconduct in defending the College Of Law PLT , taxpayers and PLT students have lost between AUD 300 -500 Million  in misallocated FEE HELP loans to the College Of Law PLT.

The misconduct was overseen by the then Chief Justice Of NSW, Tom Bathurst, who as chairman of the NSW LPAB defended the College Of Law, its management , and its PLT against this writer's complaints about the PLT, and investigation as a journalist into what was clearly a fraud on taxpayers and PLT students. 

However, Bathurst's successor as Chief Justice and NSW LPAB Chairman , Andrew Bell, has single-handedly demolished the PLT, and possibly the College Of Law, leaving in no doubt that the PLT and in particular The College Of Law PLT is not worth taxpayer  money , and  at best "a nice to have " for The College Of Law. It is low lying fruit for Anthony Albanese and his ministers in search of savings. 

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Sunday, September 7, 2025

NSW CJ and chairman NSW LPAB's College Of Law and PLT complaints are an invitation to NACC chairman Paul Brereton to establish a public inquiry into PLT FEE HELP abuse,

 by Ganesh Sahathevaan 

                                                              

                                                                             

                                                                         

 The College of Law Australia's huge surpluses that the  Chief Justice NSW Andrew Bell finds objectionable have been made possible by the NSW LPAB's ongoing approval of The College of Law Australia's PLT despite evidence of poor course quality and teaching.

While that evidence has been in the public domain since at least 2006, it was only recently in April 2025 that the Chief Justice of NSW, who is also chairman of the NSW LPAB which is supposed to regulate the College of Law and PLT to ensure standards, admitted that the College Of Law PLT was  largely not fit for purpose, and far too expensive.

False reporting in the NSW LPAB's Annual Reports which conceal complaints against the College allows The College of Law Australia ongoing access to Commonwealth FEE HELP funding of AUD 40-50 Million pa,which is funded by Australian taxpayers.

It does seem as if Andrew Bell in inviting
NACC chairman Paul Brereton to establish a public inquiry into Commonwealth FEE HELP  abuse. 

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False reporting in the NSW LPAB 2018 Annual Report allows College Of Law Ltd continued access to Commonwealth FEE HELP  funding of AUD 40-50 Million pa - Ongoing loss incurred by Australian taxpayers one more reason for NACC chairman Paul Brereton to establish a public inquiry into the NSW LPAB  

 by Ganesh Sahathevan 

                                                                     

As previously reported on this writer's Realpolitikasia blog:

NACC public hearings of misconduct at the NSW LPAB and TEQSA with regards the anomalies in their business with the Communist Party China linked Zhu Minshen and his Top Education Group necessary given NACC chief Paul Brereton's NSW Supreme Court antecedents

Adding to the above is the fact that  false reporting in the NSW LPAB's 2018 Annual Report  allows College Of Law Ltd continued access to Commonwealth FEE HELP  funding of AUD 40-50 Million per annum (see stories below).

The loss is ongoing, and suffered by Australian taxpayers. It is one more reason for NACC chairman Paul Brereton to establish a public inquiry in the NSW LPAB. 

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NSW LPAB Executive Officer Louise Pritchard had personal knowledge of operational matters excluded from the NSW LPAB Annual Report 2018, which she attested was compliant with NSW Public Sector rules 

by Ganesh Sahathevan

                     Pritchard's signature on page 22 of the NSW LPAB Annual Report, 2017-2018

Between January and June 2018 Louise Pritchard, then Executive Officer of the NSW Legal Profession Admission Board, was informed by this writer via a number of emails about problems at the College of Law.  Some of these issues were subsequently made public in Malaysia., after the College Of Law  closed its regional office located in Malaysia suddenly and without explanation. 

The complaints against the College were not disclosed in the NSW LPAB Annual Report 2017-2018, despite the NSW LPAB being required to provide information in its annual reports about complaints against institutions like the College Of Law which it oversees and accredits,  ,and despite Pritchard having personal knowledge of the complaints.  

Pritchard was responsible for attesting that the NSW LPAB Annual Reports complied with disclosure and other requirements that concerned the NSW LPAB's operations. Pritchard left the NSW LPAB sometime in 2019, for a position at the Office Of General Counsel, Sydney University.

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Resignation of LPAB Executive Officer Louise Pritchard is an audit red flag that requires the Chairman LPAB, the Chief Justice NSW Tom Bathurst, to provide an explanation: Misallocation of $40-50 Million p.a. in FEE HELP adds to overdue need for better governance 

Like Anwar Ibrahim's Malaysia, the Palestinian Action Group in Australia may be part of the Iran led post October 7 campaign against Israel -Like Malaysia, PAG may have known of the HAMAS October 7 massacre before the event

 by Ganesh Sahathevan

. As reported in The Australian, 14 February 2026 

Serial pro-Palestine protesters who orchestrated this week’s violent Sydney rally gloated about Israel’s “humiliation” just hours after the deadly Hamas attack began on October 7, 2023, and started organising demonstrations while terrorists were still slaughtering civilians in their homes. The Palestine Action Group posted a Facebook message at 10.54pm that night for an “Emergency Rally” to take place on Monday, October 9 at Sydney Town Hall. It was 2.54pm in Israel. The Hamas attack, which began that morning with a massive rocket and ground incursion, was in full fury as terrorists took hostages and raped and killed - indiscriminately. Just over half an hour before the Facebook post went live, the first groups of Israeli soldiers had reached the site of the Nova music festival massacre, where 350 innocent revellers had been murdered and another 44 taken hostage by Hamas militants. As the post was published online, Kibbutz Be’eri – which had one of the highest death tolls in the October 7 attack, with 105 residents killed – had just fallen under the control of attackers from Gaza. The Israeli government declared it was at war with Hamas that afternoon. For the Palestine Action Group, it was clear who were the aggressors and who were the victims

Given the above, and given reports of Malaysia and Iran collaborating on a post October 7 campaign  against Israel,  there is now information in public domain that  the Palestinian Action Group is part of the same campaign.

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Friday, May 2, 2025

New information suggests Anwar Ibrahim and Malaysia may have had advance knowledge of HAMAS October 7 massacre and kidnapping -information suggests Malaysia had been working closely with Iran

 by Ganesh Sahathevan 

New information suggests Anwar Ibrahim and Malaysia  may have  had advance knowledge of HAMAS October 7 massacre and kidnapping. The information suggests Malaysia had been working closely with Iran  in the planning of the October 7 massacre. 

The screenshot  above of a  recent public presentation was extracted from this recording (see 2:20:00 onward)

The above is consistent with Anwar Ibrahim's unwavering support for HAMAS. 

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Monday, October 23, 2023

"I said that we, as a policy, have a relationship with Hamas from before and this will continue"-Anwar ibrahim's admission renews concerns about Malaysia's support for jihadis and Anwar and his IIIT's funding of Palestinian Islamic Jihad

 by Ganesh Sahathevan 

Malaysia's Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim has informed the Malaysian Parliament: 

"I said that we, as a policy, have a relationship with Hamas from before and this will continue......".

Anwar's admission comes after renewed reporting of a Hamas terror cell being trained in Malaysia.  It also draws attention to the links between HAMAS and the Muslim Brotherhood, given Anwar's Muslim Brotherhood antecedents. 

The HAMAS -Muslim Brotherhood link is summarised by Dr Loretta Napoleoni, author of Terror Inc, (2005) which remains to this day a primer of financing of terrorism: 

Since the group took inspiration from the Muslim Brotherhood and the Islamic Jihad in Egypt and Jordan, it developed strong links with these and other Islamic fundamentalist armed groups, such as the Lebanese Hezbollah.

Anwar's International Institute Of Islamic Thoought 's funding of Palestnian Isalmic Jihad has been documented and subject of ICE and FBI investigations since at least 2005. 

His defiant declaration to the Malaysian Parliament is a reminder of that past,and of the Malaysian Government's support for jihadi organisations throughout the region,and in the Middle East. 

Australian Ideals-A reminder from Sir Isaac Isaac why 26 January 1788 is celebrated as the day the history of Australia actually begins ;a reminder to migrants of what drew them to Australia

 by Ganesh Sahathevan 

Here is what draws migrants to Australia, to this day, explained in clear terms by Sir Isaac Alfred Isaacs (1855-1948), governor-general, judge and politician,

AUSTRALIAN IDEALS.

Malaya Tribune, 24 March 1923, Page 2