by Ganesh Sahathevan

R-L: Susan (Bastick) Carter Director, Law Extension Committee (LEC) at University of Sydney with Her Excellency the Honourable Margaret Beazley AO QC Governor of New South Wales and Siew McKeogh, Executive Officer of the LPAB. The LPAB oversees the LEC's Diploma in Law as it does the College Of Law. These associations have resulted in a wagon fort like protection of one another, to the point where statutory reporting obligations are being ignored, to the detriment of students and the legal profession in NSW.

As previously reported:

Siew Ting Tan McKeogh, former NSW LPAB Executive Officer who oversaw the questionable re-accreditation of Zhu Minshen's license to grant law degrees was also responsible for failing to disclose The Australian investigation and story about misconduct at the NSW LPAB

It has also been discovered that while the document central to The Australian's investigation was prepared under the direction of the then NSW LPAB Executive Officer Louise Pritchard, the author of the document was one Hayley Pollock. Pollock was then a Graduate Policy and Project Officer at the NSW Department Of Justice.

The discovery of Ms Pollock's authorship was discovered by an investigation of the PDF document 's metadata.

The document was issued in August 2018, which coincided with Ms Pollock's departure from the NSW Department Of Justice. Given The Australian's investigation Ms Pollock's departure ought to have been disclosed with explanation as an operational matter, by the NSW LPAB Executive Officer responsible for the 2018-2019 Annual Report. It was not.

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