by Ganesh Sahathevan
Philippines Foreign Secretary Teddy Locsin Jr is not known to be less than frank. He has made it clear that he hold Westerners responsible for the problems in Myanmar.
“Aung San Suu Kyi had to balance the continuing tolerance of the Army to her democratic moves against the racial hatred against the Rohingya. And what does the Western and those fairies—may I call them fairies—in Oxford do? They tear her down, they remove her reputation. She had only the adoration of the world to stand up with against the army. They stripped her of all of that.”
He continues to tweet his anger.
As part of ASEAN the Philippines, together with other member countries have struggled for decades with issues that divide them. Th dream of an ASEAN common market and harmonisation of laws remains just that.
Meanwhile,Australia's legal establishment continues to insist that it has the solution. Its "College Of Law Asia" still claims to have formulated a system of ASEAN Law, despite ASEAN's best and brightest still grappling with the issues:
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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
by Ganesh Sahathevan
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Top tier international law firm JonesDay summaries the state of play with regards "ASEAN Law" :
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:
Meanwhile, questions about the College's work in Malaysia, a leading common law jurisdiction within ASEAN, remain unanswered.
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Top tier international law firm JonesDay summaries the state of play with regards "ASEAN Law" :
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:
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The College of Law and The Law Society of Singapore have committed to develop and deliver legal education and training programmes to meet the needs of the legal profession in Singapore. This shared commitment was marked by a memorandum of understanding (MOU) signed by Gregory Vijayendran SC, President of Law Society, and Neville Carter, Group Chief Executive Officer of The College of Law, on 19 March 2018 in Singapore.
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.
Naturally, given such ground breaking work lawyers in the ASEAN region will be silly to not choose Australia and in particular Sydney as their preferred forum for arbitration.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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Bar Council education ‘JV’ must be clarified
KUALA LUMPUR, July 19 – The Malaysian Bar Council launched its first education venture, a LLM in Malaysian Legal Practise (LLM), last year in collaboration with the College Of Law Australia.
The LLM does not seem to have the approval of Malaysia’s Legal Professional Qualifying Board (LPQB) but the website for the course, which is hosted in Australia, prominently displays the Bar Council crest.
The crest has not been used before to promote a course of study, and queries put to Bar Council President Fareed Gafoor about the use of the crest have been acknowledged but remain unanswered.
NMT has however sighted an email from Fareed dated Friday, May 24, 2019 with regards the LLM and the use of the crest where he states:
Dear Rajen,
We can’t remain silent on this.
Abdul Fareed Bin Abdul Gafoor
Sent from my iPad
It is understood that “Rajen” refers to Rajen Devaraj, Chief Executive Officer of the Bar Council Secretariat in Kuala Lumpur.
The Bar has remained silent for nearly 2 months since.
Key person suddenly retired during extensive query
The College of Law used to be represented in Malaysia by its Director, Peter Tritt. Tritt have been queried extensively about the LLM and about the College’s business in Malaysia but has refused to provide answers. Tritt has been based in Kuala Lumpur since 2017 but announced on Friday that he had “retired” from the College on 30 June 2019.
It is understood that Tritt has forwarded queries sent him to his head office in Sydney and hence it appears that Tritt is under orders from his Chief Executive, Neville Carter, to remain silent.
Questionable advertising claims?
In advertising on the College’s website Carter has claimed that he had established a Professional Legal Training course for Malaysian Law students seeking admission to practise in Malaysia. There seems to be no evidence of such a course, or of any national level training course for the existing Certificate of Legal Practise.
Carter has also claimed to have produced the “inaugural” Handbook in Legal Practise for Malaysia, in the late 80s. A search of the main law libraries in Malaysia directed by the Chief Registrar, Federal Court Malaysia, has not found any such handbook.
He has also claimed to have, during that time to have identified and addressed “gaps” in Malaysian legal practise, but not even those in practice during that period and since have ever heard of him. Nor are senior practitioners aware of “gaps” that needed that to be addressed by external consultants.
As CEO of the College Carter has ultimate responsibility for the College’s Malaysian operation headed by Tritt and variously named the “College Of Law Asia Pacific” and the “College Of Law Asia”. A search by NMT has not revealed any entities registered under those names in Malaysia or in Australia, not even a foreign entities registered to conduct business in Malaysia.
Meanwhile the College, in collaboration with the Bar Council continues to sell its LLM and other courses in Malaysia, deriving a fee income from Malaysian courses.
-NMT
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