by Ganesh Sahathevan
Top Education Group Ltd is advertising for potential students to enrol for its next intake into its Sydney City School Of Law in Aug 2024. However, Top's accreditation to issue LLB's expiries in June 2024.
Neither Top nor the NSW LPAB have said anything about re-accreditation. The NSW LPAB has maintained its silence despite Top's advertisement, which is based on its NSW LPAB accreditation:
Applications open for 2024 enquire today
Our program is meticulously crafted to empower students with not just legal knowledge, but also the intellectual, critical, and professional skills essential for thriving in the ever-evolving legal landscape and beyond. Upon successful completion, students can enrol in another institution for the Graduate Diploma in Legal Practice, and after successful completion may apply to the Legal Profession Admission Board for admission as legal practitioners.
The NSW LPAB has a record of covering-up for the managers of the institutions it is meant to regulate, regardless of student welfare. Its accreditation and re-accreditation in 2019 of Top's Sydney City School Of Law, despite the scandal surrounding Top, its late founder Zhu Minshen, and despite the fact that accreditation of law schools had been hitherto limited to Australia's top universities, all add to what China analyst Clive Hamilton has referred to as as the "fishy smell around Zhu Minshen's Top Education Institute".
Despite that record, the NSW ICAC , even under new chairman John Hatzistergos, seems reluctant to investigate the LPAB's Board, its executives,and other employees.
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Wednesday, November 29, 2023
NSW ICAC chief John Hatzistergos wants reforms to corruption laws, cites Chinese Friends of Labor, Sam Dastyari matters but will Hatzistergos ignore the matter of the NSW LPAB's dealings with CCP linked Zhu Minshen and his Top Group, like his predecessor and fellow judge of the NSW Sup Crt Peter Hall despite the evidence
by Ganesh Sahathevan
A former NSW Labor attorney-general says political parties are circumventing NSW’s strict rules on donations by funnelling prohibited cash through federal campaign accounts.
Independent Commission Against Corruption (ICAC) chief commissioner John Hatzistergos has called for uniform donation rules across the country to avoid parties skirting the rules, a practice that was highlighted during a 2019 inquiry into NSW Labor banking Aldi bags full of cash from a prohibited Chinese donor.
He noted that in evidence to ICAC’s investigation into the Chinese Friends of Labor fundraising dinners, former NSW Labor secretary Sam Dastyari said donations banned at a state level could be banked in federal accounts.
However, he said politicians could also be improperly influenced without any money changing hands.
“They (politicians) have to use their position in the public interest and we make that point clearly to them all the time,” he said. “It’s not their electoral interests, it’s not the interests of their friends or their donors or anyone else.” Mr Hatzistergos also reiterated ICAC’s call for political parties to be subject to certain “governance” standards in order to get funding for administrative purposes.(Time to close loophole on political donations
EXCLUSIVE JAMES O’DOHERTY STATE POLITICAL EDITOR,21 November 2023
Daily Telegraph)
Thursday, December 22, 2022
Amen Lee, ICAC witness, is now chairman of Top Education Group Ltd, licensed by the NSW LPAB to grant law degrees in NSW
by Ganesh Sahathevan
Amen Lee, ICAC witness, is now chairman of Top Education Group Ltd, which is licensed by the NSW LPAB to grant law degrees in NSW.
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Wednesday, October 30, 2019
Amen Lee is part of Top Education Group's Controlling Shareholder Group: Fresh questions for NSW LPAB,AG Speakman ,and NSW Libs over issuance of Top's LLB license and political donations ; Peter Hall's position at ICAC increasingly untenable
In his current inquiry into Chinese donations to the Labor Party ,ICAC Commissioner Peter
Hall QC(picture above) seems reluctant to go anywhere near the matter of Zhu Minshen and his Top Group,whose
donations to the NSW Liberal Party may have consequences for Hall's former colleagues at the NSW Bar and Bench who manage the Legal Profession Admission Board, the body that has provided Zhu the status of a law school vice chancellor.
While Liberal Party donor Zhu Minshen has been, this far, the focus of attention with regards Top Education Group and its license to issue LLB degrees, f Dr Amen Lee, former Executive Chairman of the Australia China Trade, Economic and Cultural Association's (ACETCA), appears to have had an equal even if less prominent role in the matter.
In August this year Amen Lee told ICAC:
"If I do attend these (fundraising) events they are paid for by Top Education or ACETCA. I have not and would not attend as an individual," Dr Lee said. Top Education is a company of which Dr Lee said he was a director and shareholder.
The above suggests that there is some overlap between Top Group and ACETCA.
All of the above raises many questions as to who else supported Top's introduction into state and federal political ,and legal circles.
