by Ganesh Sahathevan
NSW Law Society's College of Law's ASEAN+6 LLM, and all other degrees issued by the College are not certified by the Australian Law Schools Standards Committee (ALSSC).
The ALSSC certifies law schools and the list of law schools, and law degrees, that are certified by the ALSCC can be sighted at this link: https://cald.asn.au/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/Certified-Law-Schools-as-at-9-Mar-2020.pdf
The College of Law is not among the certified.
The ALSSC describes its functions on its website in the following terms:
The Australian Law Schools Standards Committee (ALSSC) is established under Standard 12 of the Australian Law School Standards. The ALSSC’s functions are to:
- consider and determine applications from law schools for certification as compliant with the Standards; and
- keep the Standards under review and to propose to CALD amendments from time to time.
The ALSSC is comprised of eight committee members from both within and outside the law school sector.
NSW Law Society's College of Law has over the past 5 years or so begun promoting itself as a provider of postgraduate legal qualifications, both in Australia and overseas especially in Malaysia and Singapore. It offers for example the ASEAN +6 LLM and a LLM in Malaysian Legal Practise (see story below). Its Professional Legal Training (PLT) has been re-branded a graduate diploma.
Potential students are given the impression that the College is one of Australia's leading tertiary law schools by claims such as this:
The Commonwealth higher education regulator, Tertiary Education Quality and Standards Agency (TEQSA), has recently awarded the College Self Accrediting Authority (SAA), reflecting an achievement of academic standards, governance and quality similar to that expected of a university.
The Commonwealth higher education regulator, Tertiary Education Quality and Standards Agency (TEQSA), has recently awarded the College Self Accrediting Authority (SAA), reflecting an achievement of academic standards, governance and quality similar to that expected of a university.
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Thursday, August 20, 2020
NSW Law Soc's Neville Carter & College of Law persist with claim that it will teach Asiatics ASEAN Law-College Of Law's claims to have reformed legal practise in Malaysia rejected by Malaysia's legal fraternity
The ASEAN anthem is probably the closest thing
one can find to a harmonised code biding ASEAN
members.
The NSW Law Society's College Of Law and its CEO Neville Carter continue to claim expertise in "ASEAN Law" despite the best and most senior legal minds in ASEAN still grappling with the formulation of a harmonised legal system (see story below).
The College and its CEO Neville Carter's claim to have reformed legal practise in Malaysia has been met with amusement by some of Malaysia's most senior judicial officers, and rejected.Malaysia's Bar Council has refused to back the College and Carter in their claims.
The College and the NSW Law Society's actions seem to betray a perception of South East Asian nations in Australia as it was in the 40s and 50s, when White Australia policies were based on the premise of South East Asians not as people of diverse races and cultures, but as "Asiatics".
The College Of Law and the NSW Law Society have maintained their silence.Neville Carter has ordered staff to not respond to any queries from this writer.
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Sunday, August 9, 2020
Australia's judicial officers not members of the ASEAN Law Association, but the NSW Law Soc's College Of Law to provide leadership in "ASEAN Law"?
The ASEAN Law Association was established in 1979. It is a non-governmental organisation that brings together the ASEAN legal fraternity of judges, government and practising lawyers and teachers of law. Its objectives include:
- in the study of and research in the laws of the ASEAN countries with a view to harmonizing those laws as required by the social and economic development of theASEAN region;
Its members comprise judges, including chief justices, from all the ASEAN countries. Its current president The Chief Justice Of Singapore, Mr Justice Sundaresh Menon.
Sunday, August 2, 2020
Australia's College Of Law will formulate and teach "ASEAN Law", surpassing NUS and other leading ASEAN law schools, and setting the stage for Australian arbitrators to corner the market in ASEAN Law disputes
This offering appears to have been suspended
Top tier international law firm JonesDay summaries the s
A key obstacle to investment in the ASEAN region is the patchwork of laws governing business insolvency and reorganization, with different approaches and philosophies, creating uncertainty and inefficiency for growing cross-border investment.
Meanwhile Australia's College Of Law will formulate and teach "ASEAN Law", surpassing NUS and other leading law schools in the ASEAN region:
MASTER OF LAWS (APPLIED LAW) IN ASEAN+6 LEGAL PRACTICE
Gregory Vijayendran SC described the collaboration with The College of Law as historic, as this is the first time the Law Society has collaborated with a legal education provider. The collaboration will drive thought leadership in legal education policy and aims to develop a wide range of courses, with a series of subjects involving ASEAN law to start with.
Meanwhile, questions about the College's work in Malaysia, a leading common law jurisdiction within ASEAN, remain unanswered.
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