Slicing-up the pie for the post-admission legal education market ... Lots of loot at stake as College of Law tries to push the NSW Law Society off a cliff ... Constitutional amendment ... Getting out from under the skirts
IT'S dreadful to have to report an unhappy stand-off between the Law Society of NSW and its love child the College of Law.
The COL wants to break its ties with the society and has pressed for a change to its constitution so as to remove the Law Soc's power of veto over major decisions.
The COL wants to break its ties with the society and has pressed for a change to its constitution so as to remove the Law Soc's power of veto over major decisions.
Last month Joe Catanzariti, the chairman of the College of Law, wrote to the Law Society asking that the relationship between the two bodies be terminated. The COL claims that the Law Society's role on its board of governors is conflicted because it also engages in continuing legal education, one of the COL's core businesses.
Quoting the then CEO of the NSW Law Society Michael Tidball , Justinian reported:
"It is understood that the College of Law is currently losing market share in the PLT market, and it may well be that there are potential commercial openings for the law Society of NSW in pursuing the growth of new streams of business activity. Done in a strategic way, this development could strengthen our membership retention in the years ahead."
Readers looking for any mention of any of the above in the NSW Legal Profession Admission Board's 2014-2015 Annual Report will find no reference to any of the above, despite the fact that the NSW LPAB is responsible for determining if the College Of Law can continue offering the PLT. The non-disclosure adds to the deficiencies in the NSW LAPB's Annual Reports, with regards the College Of Law in the 2015-2016 Annual Report, and then again in the 2018-2019 Annual Report, which excluded complaints against the College made by this writer, based on evidence from Malaysia. The College has since come under scrutiny in Malaysia.
As a result of the NSW LPAB's protective mantle the College of Law continues to offer the PLT throughout the country, despite well known, long standing deficiencies in the substance, structure and delivery of its PLT. The NSW LPAB's failure to disclose any of the above in its annual reports and instead report only that it continues to support the College as a provider of the PLT misleads potential lawyers, and the general public to whom the College offers its courses. On the strength of its NSW LPAB accreditation the College has attempted to diversity into South East Asia and the United Kingdom.
Ultimately it falls on the Chairman of the NSW LPAB, the Chief Justice Of NSW Tom Bathurst to correct the errors, but he has refused to do so.
It then falls to the NSW Auditor General Margaret Crawford to draw attention to these issues, but she too has remained silent, despite being made aware of these issues. Meanwhile taxpayers are left bearing the cost.
It then falls to the NSW Auditor General Margaret Crawford to draw attention to these issues, but she too has remained silent, despite being made aware of these issues. Meanwhile taxpayers are left bearing the cost.
TO BE READ WITH
LPAB foray into international politics, 1MDB and a HK IPO demand that the Chairman (the CJ NSW) signs off the accounts
August 04, 2019
What the 1999 Annual Report of the German listed Beate Uhse AG has to do with the Legal Profession Board NSW's lack of proper disclosure requiresexplanation; now read on.
In August 2018 the NSW Legal Profession Admission Board (LPAB), which is part of the Department Of Justice, and under the purview of the Attorney General NSW Mark Speakman, issued a document which held this story that can be found on the Net to be true:
Ganesh Sahathevan, RPK, Clare Brown, Ginny Stein And The Blood Money Trail
The article was in fact an attack on the current Prime Minister of Malaysia, Mahathir Mohamad,accusing him of bribing the ABC's 4 Corners program to broadcast a false story about the then prime minister Najib Razak.
In doing so the LPAB implied that the 1MDB theft, described by former US Attorney General Jeff Sissons as the biggest case of kleptocracy in history, was in fact a conspiracy engineered by Mahathir,and this writer.
The circumstances that led to the above have not been included in the LPAB's 2017-2018 Annual Report, or in any other public statement from the LPAB. The LPAB and its chairman the Chief Justice Of NSW Tom Bathurst have maintained their silence despite the incident above being reported nationally by he Australian on 17 January 2019 in the story copied/pasted below.
This silence is reminiscent of the lack of information in the LPAB's annual reports about its dealings with the political donor Minshen Zhu, and its part in Zhu's HK IPO of his company, Top Education Group Ltd:
TOP Education Institute's Bachelor of Laws : Political donations,HK Stock Exchange IPO seem to have left regulators confounded, speechless
The background to the LPAB's involvement with Zhu is interesting also given the role played by LPAB member Dr Gordon Elkington :
NSW Liberal donor Minshen Zhu's Top Group, the LPAB,the AG,and Sharon Austen Ltd
Sharon Austem Ltd was a dot com era IPO promoted by among others Legal Profession Admission Board member Dr Gordon Elkingtoon.The company collapsed a year or so after its ASX debut in 2000 but information about its IPO is still available in the public domain.The German listed Beate Uhse AG 's 1999 Annual Report (cover above ) is one example.Kate Askew's Dot.bomb is another. In contrast, Dr Elkington's work at the LPAB which led to the 2018 IPO in Hong Kong of Top Education Group Ltd remains shrouded in mystery ,with the LPAB making only the most limited of disclosures.
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