Ganesh Sahathevan

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...

by Ganesh Sahathevan Senator Arthur Sinodinos Source: AAP Arthur Sinodinos will soon be Australia's ambassador to the United States. The appointment assumes that Washington will share the Sydney establishment's perspective of Sinodinos' Australian Water Holdings matter.That perspective is described by Richard Ackland in the 2016 Guardian article below. In 2017 ICAC determined that Sinodinos did not need to disclose he stood to benefit from Australian Water Holdings (AWH)  a water company gaining a public private partnership. Washington is far from Sydney,and Americans, especially in the intelligence and diplomatic services do not have that same level of sophistication that one finds in Sydney.They are not likely to consider the AWH matter an historic irrelevancy. END Opinion Independent Commission Against Corruption Sinodinos and Icac: corruption may have been going on under his nose, but ignorance is bliss Richard Ackland When Icac finally reports this year, the unimpre...

by Ganesh Sahathevan 1752:HK Hong Kong Top Education Group Ltd COMPANY INFO 0.28 HKD 1D 1M 6M YTD 1Y 5Y MINIMIZE CHART BloombergMarkets 200.0M 400.0M Jul Sep Nov Jan Mar Ma Hong Kong listed Top Education Group Ltd which operates the Sydney City Law School and a number of other colleges in NSW has seen its share price and market capitalization fall by about 20% in the past week. The fall adds to the weakness inherent in the share price which has fallen from a high 96 HK Cents just after its IPO and listing in May last year, to roughly 30- 40 HK Cents since Octrouober last year. This week the share price has gone sub-30. Top Group advertises itself as the "first and only" private company to have been granted a licence by the Legal Profession Admission Board NSW to gtant LLB degrees. The LPAB is chaired by the Chief Justice NSW Tom Bathurst and overseen by the Attorney General NSW Mark Speakman SC, who is also the elected Member for Cronualla. It has been previously reported on ...