by Ganesh Sahathevan
It has been previously reported here that Australia's College Of Law has incorporated a subsidiary in Singapore, which describes its activities as "head and regional head offices, centralised and administrative offices."
The Singapore Government provides financial incentives for regional head offices, but it is unclear if the Singapore Government intended its incentives to be available in the case where there are a multiplicity of regional HQs.
The College has declared on its THE COLLEGE OF LAW ASIA-PACIFIC website (since removed)
The College of Law Asia-Pacific and its Director, Peter Tritt, is based in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. The College of Law Asia-Pacific was established in 2016 to expand the College's operations into Asia, with a special focus on the new ASEAN Economic Community
Malaysia also offers regional HQ incentives.
While it is true that the Kuala Lumpur office has been vacated, a matter which the College and its Malaysian advisers refuse to comment on,the College continues to claim on a new website:
College of Law Asia is a wholly-owned subsidiary of the College of Law Limited, an Australian not-for-profit higher education provider. The College of Law is specialist Graduate School with award-granting powers conferred by the Australian Government and is the largest specialist legal education provider in the Australasian region
As reported, details of the College of Law Asia's incorporation also remain a mystery.
TO BE READ WITH
Monday, July 13, 2020
Australia's College Of Law takes advantage of Singapore's regional HQ incentives: A first for an Australian not for profit ;meanwhile details about the incorporation of its College Of Law Asia remains elusive
The chart below(click to enlarge) was sighted on the College Of Law webpage at this link.https://www.collaw.edu.au/-/media/col/au_files/downloads-and-forms/about/corporate-governance/college-of-law-corporate-and-academic-committee-structure-as-june-2019.pdf
The webpage was found when looking for an interesting new entity,
COL SIN PRIVATE LIMITED.
Tuesday, July 7, 2020
In search of the College Of Law Asia : College Of Law's Asian expansion still raising questions which Australia's legal establishment refuses to answer
Australia's College Of Law, which is part of the NSW legal establishment conducts a number of postgraduate "applied law" courses. Among them is a Mergers & Acquisitions offering. Prospective students are enticed by statements such as this, contained in a course brochure (click to enlarge):
Key person suddenly retired during extensive query
Questionable advertising claims?
Sunday, June 21, 2020
Singapore Law Society maintains silence on MOU with Australia's College Of Law,and has removed a website about which it was queried.: SLS seems to be following the lead of Bar Council Malaysia in re College Of Law
College Of Law CEO Neville Carter & SLS President Gregory
Vijayndran SC
As previously reported, the Singapore Law Society's confidence in its practical legal training partner, the College Of Law Australia, is not shared by participants in the Australia's market for legal education.
The SLS's Dephine Tan has since been further questioned about an upcoming "master-class" that is to be offered by the College of Law and SLS, and presented by Raphael Tay of Malaysia, who is described as Program Director, LLM ASEAN+6 at The College of Law Asia
Readers will note that they are reading a cached copy of the SLS website on which the "master-class" was advertised. The actual website https://www.lawsociety.org.sg/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/Brochure_eMasterclass-MnA-Webinar-PORTAL-1.pdf
seems to have been removed since questions were put last Thursday to Ms Tan and the SLS.
It does look as the SLS is following in the footsteps of the Bar Council Malaysia, in not wanting to answer questions, and in removing websites related to work with the College Of Law.
The experience of the Bar Council Malaysia were also put to the SLS,and have also been met with stony silence.
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