by Ganesh Sahathevan
The Sydney City School Of Law scandal has literally plunged to new depths with the further collapse yesterday of its parent company Top Education Group's share price to under HK 5 Cents.
Share price has collapsed by 40% since April 2023.
That coincides with the term in office of the newly appointed NSW Shadow Attorney General Susan Carter. Prior to her appointment Ms Carter was, since 2017, Director, Law Extension Committee. She was therefore very much part of the NSW LPAB universe and would have an insider's knowledge of the NSW LPAB's workings. She has a special responsibility to call for an inquiry into the Sydney City School Of Law scandal, its probable collapse, and the NSW LPAB's part in it.
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Tuesday, April 11, 2023
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
by Ganesh Sahathevan
As previously reported by this writer:
The NSW Annual Reports (Statutory Bodies) Regulations requires that agencies include information about the extent and main features of consumer complaints in their Annual reporting. Page 19 of the NSW LPAB’s 2017-2018 Annual Report includes a section titled “Consumer response” on page 19. This section mentions seven items of feedback, three of which were complaints but none refer to the NSW LPAB's response to complaints made to it against the College Of Law Ltd and its conduct of the PLT course. The NSW LPAB has ongoing duties to oversee and accredit the College Of Law's PLT course. The College relies on the NSW LPAB for its AUD 50 Million per annum FEE HELP financed revenue.
That investigation and the story in The Australian have also been excluded from the NSW Department Of Justice and NSW LPAB annual reports. The story in The Australian includes reference to the NSW LPAB's response to issues concerning the College Of Law.
The complaints were raised by this writer in the 2017-2018 financial year. The issue spilled over into the 2018-2019 financial year, and became subject of an investigation by The Australian, which reported the issue on 17 January 2019.
That investigation and the story in The Australian have also been excluded from the NSW Department Of Justice and NSW LPAB annual reports. The story in The Australian includes reference to the NSW LPAB's response to issues concerning the College Of Law.
The LPAB Executive Officer who signed-off on operational matters for the year ending June 30 2019 was Siew Ting Tan McKeogh, who took over from Louise Pritchard , and who herself left the position under circumstances that have never been explained. Tan Mckeogh remains a solicitor at the NSW LPAB.
Sunday, November 13, 2022
Siew Ting Tan McKeogh, former NSW LPAB Executive Officer who oversaw the review of Zhu Minshen & Top Group's license to grant LB degree remains a solicitor at the NSW LPAB
by Ganesh Sahathevan
The latest extract from the NSW Law Society website.
It is highly intriguing that Ms Tan McKeogh remains e solicitor at the NSW LPAB, despite her role in the Zhu Minshen-Top Group affair.
Siew Ting Tan McKeogh
| Date of NSW Admission | 09/10/1998 |
| Practising Certificate Type | Principal of a law practice |
| Principal Place of Practice | Legal Profession Admission Board |
| Class | Government |
| Address | LEVEL 4, 37 BLIGH STREET SYDNEY NSW 2000 |
| Postal Address | GPO BOX 3980 SYDNEY NSW 2001 |
| Firm Phone | 02 9338 3500 |
| Firm Fax | 02 9338 3555 |
| Region | CITY OF SYDNEY |
| Languages other than English spoken in the firm |
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Wednesday, May 27, 2020
Siew Ting Tan McKeogh, NSW LPAB Executive Officer who oversaw the review of Zhu Minshen & Top Group's license to grant LB degrees was replaced soon after renewal of that license: NSW LPAB Chair Tom Bathurst maintains silence despite controversy surrounding Zhu and Top
by Ganesh Sahathevan
As Chief Justice Tom Bathurst has been intent on pursuing a social
and political agenda. In doing so he has walked into a matter
of national security.In doing so he seems to have neglected his actual duties.
Siew Ting Tan McKeogh, the NSW LPAB Executive Officer who oversaw the review of Zhu Minshen and Top Group's license to grant LB degrees, has been replaced after just eight or so months on the job.
She was replaced soon after the review was successfully completed, and signed off on 29 June 2019, just one day before the end of the financial year. That fortuitous timing allowed Zhu to report in his year end financial reports that his review "went smoothly" .
The timing also saved the NSW LPAB from having to report any delay , exception or qualification to that review. The NSW LPAB were able to do so despite the adverse media reports against Zhu and Top Group.
The Chairman of the NSW LPAB , Chief Justice Tom Bathurst, has maintained his silence despite the controversy surrounding Zhu.
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Friday, September 27, 2019
As Chief Justice Tom Bathurst has been intent on pursuing a social
and political agenda. In doing so he has walked into a matter
of national security.In doing so he seems to have neglected his actual duties.
Siew Ting Tan McKeogh, the NSW LPAB Executive Officer who oversaw the review of Zhu Minshen and Top Group's license to grant LB degrees, has been replaced after just eight or so months on the job.
She was replaced soon after the review was successfully completed, and signed off on 29 June 2019, just one day before the end of the financial year. That fortuitous timing allowed Zhu to report in his year end financial reports that his review "went smoothly" .
The timing also saved the NSW LPAB from having to report any delay , exception or qualification to that review. The NSW LPAB were able to do so despite the adverse media reports against Zhu and Top Group.
The Chairman of the NSW LPAB , Chief Justice Tom Bathurst, has maintained his silence despite the controversy surrounding Zhu.
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Friday, September 27, 2019
Zhu Minshen announces that NSW LPAB review "went smoothly": AG NSW Mark Speakman and officers unconcerned by Clive Hamilton's disclosures of threats, intimidation and defiance of AFP directives ,share price collapse
by Ganesh Sahathevan
The LPAB''s tick of approval does not seem to have reversed the downward trend in share price.Indeed it does look as if the LPAB has ignored all together the fact that Top's market capitalisation has collapsed since listing. Note that Top's shareprice has fallen 14.29% over the past month,compared to 1.13% for the overall market as measured by the Hang Seng Index
In the words of Zhu Minshen, chairman and CEO of his Top Education Group Ltd:
Bachelor of Law Re-accreditation
The scheduled re-accreditation process of our Bachelor of Laws (‘‘LLB’’) went smoothly. On 27 June 2019, TOP received formal notification from the Legal Profession Admission Board of New South Wales (‘‘LPAB’’) to accredit TOP’s LLB for a further five-year period commencing from the notification date.
(TOP EDUCATION GROUP LTD
ANNOUNCEMENT OF ANNUAL RESULTSFOR THE YEAR ENDED 30 JUNE 2019)
All this despite the revelations of open defiance of an AFP directive, threats and intimidation disclosed in Clive Hamilton's "Silent Invasion",which have been previously reported on this blog:
In his 2018 book "Silent Invasion" Professor Clive Hamilton reports that Top Education Group's Zhu Minshen organised students , including students from his Top Education Institute to protest against Tibetans at the 2008 rally , which counted towards the Top students’ assessment. Zhu’s Top Institution is “perhaps the only accredited degree program in Australia that counts agitating for a foreign power towards its qualifications.”
Hamilton provides details of Zhu's Communist Party China antecedents and his organisation of the 30,000 strong demonstration by Chinese students at the Canberra torch relay, many of them brandishing Chinese flags.
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In the words of Zhu Minshen, chairman and CEO of his Top Education Group Ltd:
Bachelor of Law Re-accreditation
The scheduled re-accreditation process of our Bachelor of Laws (‘‘LLB’’) went smoothly. On 27 June 2019, TOP received formal notification from the Legal Profession Admission Board of New South Wales (‘‘LPAB’’) to accredit TOP’s LLB for a further five-year period commencing from the notification date.
(TOP EDUCATION GROUP LTD
ANNOUNCEMENT OF ANNUAL RESULTSFOR THE YEAR ENDED 30 JUNE 2019)
All this despite the revelations of open defiance of an AFP directive, threats and intimidation disclosed in Clive Hamilton's "Silent Invasion",which have been previously reported on this blog:
In his 2018 book "Silent Invasion" Professor Clive Hamilton reports that Top Education Group's Zhu Minshen organised students , including students from his Top Education Institute to protest against Tibetans at the 2008 rally , which counted towards the Top students’ assessment. Zhu’s Top Institution is “perhaps the only accredited degree program in Australia that counts agitating for a foreign power towards its qualifications.”
Hamilton provides details of Zhu's Communist Party China antecedents and his organisation of the 30,000 strong demonstration by Chinese students at the Canberra torch relay, many of them brandishing Chinese flags.
This was clearly an open challenge to the authority , and in public defiance of, the AFP's directive to Chinese government security that they were not to be involved in the torch relay. As Hamilton puts is "ASIO shat themselves".
Despite this open defiance of the law that they are meant to defend and uphold the Attorney General NSW Mark Speakman and the other senior judicial officers at the LPAB determined that an exception should be made to allow Zhu to operate the "first and only" law school in Australia that is not part of a university.
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Law Council Australia 's exception for Zhu Minshen despite Law Council declaring China's justice system "a joke"
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