by Ganesh Sahathevan
Mark Speakman
The Zhenhua database has concerned many, especially those whose names have been reported to be on the list. However, the main concern ought to be with the methods used by Zhenua and other Chinese government linked organisation to collect and analyse open source data.
Put in another way, the machinery that exists can be tasked at anytime and within seconds to collect data on anyone.
As demonstrated in the paragraphs that follow, simple Internet searches of Communist Party China linked businessman and educationist Zhu Minshen and his Top Group can uncover information on a wide range of influential persons.; in this case the Attorney General Of NSW Mark Speakman, and his officers, especially those at the NSW Legal Profession Admission Board. Speakman and the others named below are not known by this writer to be on the Zhenhua database.
The NSW Legal Profession Admission Board (LPAB) is a statutory body chaired by the Chief Justice of New South Wales Tom Bathurst. It is part of the NSW Department Of Justice and the Minister responsible is the Attorney General NSW , currently Mark Speakman SC
The LPAB's duties include granting licenses for the award of Bachelor of Laws (LLB) degrees. Until recently only public universities were issued these licenses. In 2015 the LPAB issued a license to grant LLBs to TOP Education Group Ltd, which proudly proclaims the fact that it is the "first and only" private company to have been granted such a license.
The LPAB states in its 2015 Annual Report:
In addition, the LPAB received an application for accreditation of a new law degree to be offered by a non-university provider, TOP Education Institute (LLB).
The LPAB considered the advice of its Accreditation Sub-Committee and Legal Qualifications Committee, and also consulted with other admitting authorities through the Law Admissions Consultative Committee (LACC), before deciding to accredit the new degree with effect from 1 January 2015.
http://www.lpab.justice.nsw.gov.au/Documents/Annual%20Report%202014-15.
Dr Gordon Elkington, a member of the NSW LPAB Board, was assigned to TEQSA to assist with the TOP application for the relevant licenses from TEQSA.
In 2018 Zhu listed his Top Group on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange.
Zhu's business failures are listed on page 160 and 167 of the IPO Prospectus. They are failures in small businesses which in turn raise questions about his capacity to fund a much larger venture like TOP. Regardless, the prospectus shows how Zhu relied on his LPAB accreditation to promote his IPO.
In the 4 months or so prior to the LPAB granting TOP the license to issue law degrees, TOP made donations worth AUD 44 275 to the Liberal Party NSW Branch.
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Sunday, August 9, 2020
Zhu Minshen Top Group law school froze enrolments in 2019 after NSW LPAB reaccreditation: NSW LPAB & its Chairman , the Chief Justice NSW Tom Bathurst, have provided no explanation
by Ganesh Sahathevan
Ambassador Cheng Jingye Pays an Official Visit to the State of New
South Wales (2016/08/16)
The following statement appears at the bottom of Zhu Minhen's Top Education law school website:
* Law school is currently not accepting any new enrolments for its Bachelor of Laws course
South Wales (2016/08/16)
The following statement appears at the bottom of Zhu Minhen's Top Education law school website:
* Law school is currently not accepting any new enrolments for its Bachelor of Laws course
The Acting Dean of the law school, Katherine Lindsay , has confirmed in writing :
No new law students have been admitted in 2020.
The decision to freeze enrolments appears to have been made after the NSW Legal Profession Admission Board reaccredited Top's license to issue law degrees on 27 June 2019.
The NSW LPAB and its Chairman, the Chief Justice NSW Tom Bathurst, have provided no public explanation and have maintained their usual silence.
Top is listed on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange but the HKEX has not been informed of this freezing of law school enrolments, despite Top relying on its "one and only" and "very unique" law school to sell its IPO.
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Friday, September 27, 2019
Zhu Minshen announces that NSW LPAB review "went smoothly": AG NSW Mark Speakman and officers unconcerned by Clive Hamilton's disclosures of threats, intimidation and defiance of AFP directives ,share price collapse
by Ganesh Sahathevan
The LPAB''s tick of approval does not seem to have reversed the downward trend in share price.Indeed it does look as if the LPAB has ignored all together the fact that Top's market capitalisation has collapsed since listing. Note that Top's shareprice has fallen 14.29% over the past month,compared to 1.13% for the overall market as measured by the Hang Seng Index
In the words of Zhu Minshen, chairman and CEO of his Top Education Group Ltd:
Bachelor of Law Re-accreditation
The scheduled re-accreditation process of our Bachelor of Laws (‘‘LLB’’) went smoothly. On 27 June 2019, TOP received formal notification from the Legal Profession Admission Board of New South Wales (‘‘LPAB’’) to accredit TOP’s LLB for a further five-year period commencing from the notification date.
(TOP EDUCATION GROUP LTD
ANNOUNCEMENT OF ANNUAL RESULTS FOR THE YEAR ENDED 30 JUNE 2019)
All this despite the revelations of open defiance of an AFP directive, threats and intimidation disclosed in Clive Hamilton's "Silent Invasion",which have been previously reported on this blog:
In his 2018 book "Silent Invasion" Professor Clive Hamilton reports that Top Education Group's Zhu Minshen organised students , including students from his Top Education Institute to protest against Tibetans at the 2008 rally , which counted towards the Top students’ assessment. Zhu’s Top Institution is “perhaps the only accredited degree program in Australia that counts agitating for a foreign power towards its qualifications.”
Hamilton provides details of Zhu's Communist Party China antecedents and his organisation of the 30,000 strong demonstration by Chinese students at the Canberra torch relay, many of them brandishing Chinese flags.
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In the words of Zhu Minshen, chairman and CEO of his Top Education Group Ltd:
Bachelor of Law Re-accreditation
The scheduled re-accreditation process of our Bachelor of Laws (‘‘LLB’’) went smoothly. On 27 June 2019, TOP received formal notification from the Legal Profession Admission Board of New South Wales (‘‘LPAB’’) to accredit TOP’s LLB for a further five-year period commencing from the notification date.
(TOP EDUCATION GROUP LTD
ANNOUNCEMENT OF ANNUAL RESULTS FOR THE YEAR ENDED 30 JUNE 2019)
All this despite the revelations of open defiance of an AFP directive, threats and intimidation disclosed in Clive Hamilton's "Silent Invasion",which have been previously reported on this blog:
In his 2018 book "Silent Invasion" Professor Clive Hamilton reports that Top Education Group's Zhu Minshen organised students , including students from his Top Education Institute to protest against Tibetans at the 2008 rally , which counted towards the Top students’ assessment. Zhu’s Top Institution is “perhaps the only accredited degree program in Australia that counts agitating for a foreign power towards its qualifications.”
Hamilton provides details of Zhu's Communist Party China antecedents and his organisation of the 30,000 strong demonstration by Chinese students at the Canberra torch relay, many of them brandishing Chinese flags.
This was clearly an open challenge to the authority , and in public defiance of, the AFP's directive to Chinese government security that they were not to be involved in the torch relay. As Hamilton puts is "ASIO shat themselves".
Despite this open defiance of the law that they are meant to defend and uphold the Attorney General NSW Mark Speakman and the other senior judicial officers at the LPAB determined that an exception should be made to allow Zhu to operate the "first and only" law school in Australia that is not part of a university.
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