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Appointment of Tan Siew Ting McKeogh as Executive Officer LPAB adds to governance ,reporting issues at the LPAB, Department of Justice

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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. by Ganesh Sahathevan The Legal Profession Admission Board (LPAB) has decided to appoint a new Executive Officer from outside the usual civil service pool. The appointment of Tan Siew Ting McKeogh (aka Siew McKeogh) as Executive Officer, LPAB, coincides with the story in  The Australian, 17 January 2019, about the departure of the long serving Louise Pritchard . Ms Tan -Mckeogh's previous experience appears to have been in  a seri