YA George Varughese's College Of Law Sydney not certified even in Australia: The former Bar Council president did not advice members that the College's Malaysian LLM degree that did not have Malaysian Govt approval


Readers will recall that Sydney's College Of Law has begun offering a range of LLMs, or Masters Of Law courses in Malaysia, Singapore and the rest of ASEAN on the strength of its standing in Australia, and its contribution to legal practise in Malaysia going back to the 80s. As New Malaysia Times has reported, the College's past and recent business in Malaysia is shrouded in mystery. Silence on the part of the College's advisers in Malaysia, Dinesh Bashkaran of Shearn & Wong Tat Chung of Wong Beng Toh, who are senior members of the Malaysian Bar , has only deepened the mystery.


Now it has been discovered that the College Of Law Sydney, and thus the LLM courses it offers,are not certified by even the Council Of Australian Law Deans and its Australian Law Schools Standards Committee.

The Australian Law Schools Standards Committee (ALSSC) is established under Standard 12 of the Australian Law School Standards. The ALSSC’s functions are to:
consider and determine applications from law schools for certification as compliant with the Standards; and
keep the Standards under review and to propose to CALD amendments from time to time.

The ALSSC is comprised of eight committee members from both within and outside the law school sector.

A list of the Australian Law Schools that are certified as at 9 March 2020 is available here.

https://cald.asn.au/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/Certified-Law-Schools-as-at-9-Mar-2020.pdf

Readers can see for themselves from the PDF link above that the College Of Law Sydney is not among those listed as being certified by the CALD.



Readers will recall that as president of the Malaysian Bar Council  Yang Arif George Varughese faild to advice his members that the College's Malaysian LLM did not have Malaysian Government approval. Now it appears that neither did he advise members that the College is not among those listed as being certified by the CALD.


TO BE READ WITH 

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



November 06, 2020

 by Ganesh Sahathevan 


YA Tuan George Varughese
Pesuruhjaya Kehakiman Mahkamah Tinggi Pulau Pinang


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 College, again with the Bar Council and Varughese's acquiescence,  also claims that it produced in 1985-86 the first group of "elite" law graduates from MARA who were admitted to practice in Malaysia. This does come as a bit of surprise to this writer and others like him who know and have known of Malaysian lawyers who graduated from MARA and were admitted to practise in the 1970s. In the latter category  is former  Chief Justice , YAA Tan Sri Richard Malanjum, who graduated in 1973.


TO BE READ WITH 





Judicial CommissionerYA Tuan George Varughese assisted College Of Law Sydney promote Malaysian law masters program that did not have the approval of the Malaysian Qualification Agency ; provided no explanation after College suddenly closed its office in Malaysia, and its Malaysian Masters website vanished





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