by Ganesh Sahathevan
The public questioning of a College Of Law PLT by Chief Justice NSW Andrew Bell demands that these issues concerning the College Of Law be investigated. They have clearly affected the quality of training.
Mr Adrian Deans
The College's PLT work experience component is overseen by Adrian Dean, a novelist who does not appear to have much exposure to legal practise.
This writer has had the experience of submitting a work experience journal to Deans, while enrolled as a PLT student at the College. The conclusion of this writer's work experience recorded in the journal was that the College taught little if anything that was applicable in actual legal practise.
The College's PLT work experience component is overseen by Adrian Dean, a novelist who does not appear to have much exposure to legal practise.
This writer has had the experience of submitting a work experience journal to Deans, while enrolled as a PLT student at the College. The conclusion of this writer's work experience recorded in the journal was that the College taught little if anything that was applicable in actual legal practise.
Deans objected to that submission, and requested it be changed. He was unable to defend the relevance of the College's PLT course, except to say that this writer had a "problem" with the course he oversaw. The College's academic head, Lewis Patrick attempted to justify his and Deans' position by stating that PLT students' work experience journals were judged on the quality of the reflection of the experience, and not the quality of the work experience itself.
The above occurred in 2018, when the College's conduct was overseen by the then Chief Justice OF NSW, Tom Bathurst. The above matters were brought the Bathurst's attention, and he did nothing.
TO BE READ WITH
by Ganesh Sahathevan
Mr Lewis Patrick
Lewis Patrick , Chief Academic Officer and Deputy CEO at College of Law (COL) , has also resigned as a director of COL's UK venture, the College Of Legal Practise Ltd (COLP) . He joins Nick Savage, COLP's high profile CEO, whose resignation was reported on this blog yesterday.
The reasons for now two high profile departures are unknown; the College and in particular its CEO Neville Carter operate under a code of secrecy and have refused to answer queries about their operations.
However, its foreign misadventures, especially in Malaysia, are now a matter of public record. Despite these public revelations the College has refused to clarify matters; CEO Carter has in fact gone so far as to portray the Malaysian experience as a plus in promoting the College's expansion into the UK.
A similar venture in Singapore also seems to have run into problems.
It is left to be seen how the UK market reacts to the College's uniquely Antipodean methods of instruction in legal training. For example, in his capacity as Academic Director Patrick once famously declared that in assessing the work experience component of the Practical Legal Training (PLT) course that the College Of Law conducts in Australia " the College is not assessing the quality of (the student's) work experience, but rather the quality of (the student's) reflections on that experience.
In fact, the College's Director in charge of the PLT's work experience component is one Adrian Deans, who in the past decade has become better known as a novelist.
Mr Lewis Patrick
Lewis Patrick , Chief Academic Officer and Deputy CEO at College of Law (COL) , has also resigned as a director of COL's UK venture, the College Of Legal Practise Ltd (COLP) . He joins Nick Savage, COLP's high profile CEO, whose resignation was reported on this blog yesterday.
The reasons for now two high profile departures are unknown; the College and in particular its CEO Neville Carter operate under a code of secrecy and have refused to answer queries about their operations.
However, its foreign misadventures, especially in Malaysia, are now a matter of public record. Despite these public revelations the College has refused to clarify matters; CEO Carter has in fact gone so far as to portray the Malaysian experience as a plus in promoting the College's expansion into the UK.
A similar venture in Singapore also seems to have run into problems.
It is left to be seen how the UK market reacts to the College's uniquely Antipodean methods of instruction in legal training. For example, in his capacity as Academic Director Patrick once famously declared that in assessing the work experience component of the Practical Legal Training (PLT) course that the College Of Law conducts in Australia " the College is not assessing the quality of (the student's) work experience, but rather the quality of (the student's) reflections on that experience.
In fact, the College's Director in charge of the PLT's work experience component is one Adrian Deans, who in the past decade has become better known as a novelist.
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