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Yang Arif George Varughese remained silent in the face of the College Of Law Sydney's outlandish claims about its decades old reforms to legal practise in Malaysia: Varughese's silence coincided with the College Of Law's promotion of a Malaysian LLM degree that does not have Malaysian Government approval , promoted together with the Bar Council under Varughese's leadership

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 by Ganesh Sahathevan  YA Tuan George Varughese Pesuruhjaya Kehakiman Mahkamah Tinggi Pulau Pinang Dilantik sebagai Pesuruhjaya Kehakiman pada 28 November 2019 As reported previously ,  The College Of Law-Bar Council JV was entered into when YA George Varghese was  chairman of the Bar Council. He refused to answer queries about the JV and about the outlandish  claims made by the College about its contributions to  legal education in Malaysia, going back to the 1980s.  The College's claims have been refuted by UiTM, and the  Federal   Court  Registry. These claims, and claims of having reformed legal practise in Malaysia, have caused offence to senior Malaysian lawyers this writer has spoken to who were already in practise in the 80s. None had heard of the College Of Law despite the ground breaking reforms it claims it had made to Malaysian legal practice at that time.  Even more offensive  the C ollege, again with the Bar Council and Varughese's acquiescence,  also claims that