Former NSW LPAB Executive Officer Siew Ting Tan McKeogh failed to disclose the very public investigation into the NSW LPAB in 2019 ; that and other errors must be disclosed in amended annual reports and Tan McKeogh's conduct investigated; Shadow AG Susan Carter likely to have information that she must provide parliament

 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.

During her short stint as Executive Officer NSW LPAB Siew Ting Tan McKeogh (left,picture above) signed off the business or operations section of the NSW LPAB Annual Report 2019-2020. The Annual Report that she has  signed does not include any reference to the story below published in The Australian on 17 January 2019, which concerns the conduct of her predecessor Louise Pritchard and her resignation, and the judgement of the chairman at the time, the former Chief Justice NSW Tom Bathurst. The article raises many issues about the NSW LPAB's operations, and goes to its ability to continue in its role as gatekeeper to the legal profession in NSW. 

McKeogh is still an employee of the NSW LPAB, and the reasons for her resignation as Executive Officer have not been revealed. 

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Bizarre blog claims used to deny man right to practise law
                

EXCLUSIVE

• BEN BUTLER

  BUSINESS REPORTER

  
• 12:00AM JANUARY 17, 2019
• 2 COMMENTS

The body overseen by Chief Justice Tom Bathurst responsible for deciding who can practise law in NSW relied on a wildly defamatory Malaysian blog depicting ABC journalists, former British prime minister Tony Blair, financier George Soros and others as part of a global conspiracy when deciding to deny a would-be solicitor a certificate to practise.

Chief Justice Bathurst and Legal Practitioner Admission Board executive officer Louise Pritchard declined to answer The Australian’s questions about how the article came into the board’s hands and why its members felt the conspiracy-laden material could be relied upon as part of a decision to deny Sydney man Ganesh Sahathevan admission as a lawyer. Nor would either say which of the 10 members of the LPAB, three of whom are serving NSW Supreme Court judges, was on the deciding panel.

Ms Pritchard has left her role at the LPAB since The Australian began making inquiries in September. The article, published in December 2017 on website The Third Force, accuses Mr Sahathevan of engaging in a conspiracy to attack then Malaysian prime minister Najib Razak.

Posted 14th August 2019 by Ganesh Sahathevan