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<\/p>\nKUALA LUMPUR, July 19 – The Malaysian Bar Council launched its first education venture, a LLM in Malaysian Legal Practise (LLM), last year in collaboration with the College Of Law Australia.<\/p>\n
The LLM does not seem to have the approval of Malaysia\u2019s Legal Professional Qualifying Board (LPQB) but the website for the course, which is hosted in Australia, prominently displays the Bar Council crest.<\/p>\n
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The crest has not been used before to promote a course of study, and queries put to Bar Council President Fareed Gafoor about the use of the crest have been acknowledged but remain unanswered.<\/p>\n
NMT has however sighted an email from Fareed dated\u00a0Friday, May 24, 2019\u00a0with regards the LLM and the use of the crest where he states:<\/p>\n
Dear Rajen,<\/em><\/p>\n We can’t remain silent on this.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n Abdul Fareed Bin Abdul Gafoor<\/em><\/p>\n Sent from my iPad<\/em><\/p>\n It is understood that \u201cRajen\u201d refers to \u00a0Rajen Devaraj, Chief Executive Officer of the Bar Council Secretariat in Kuala Lumpur.<\/p>\n The Bar has remained silent for nearly 2 months since.<\/p>\n The College of Law used to be represented in Malaysia by its Director, Peter Tritt. Tritt have been queried extensively about the LLM and about the College\u2019s business in Malaysia but has refused to provide answers. Tritt has been based in Kuala Lumpur since 2017 but announced on Friday that he had \u201cretired\u201d from the College on 30 June 2019.<\/p>\n It is understood that Tritt has forwarded queries sent him to his head office in Sydney and hence it appears that Tritt is under orders from his Chief Executive, Neville Carter, to remain silent.<\/p>\n In advertising on the College\u2019s website Carter has claimed that he had established a Professional Legal Training course for Malaysian Law students seeking admission to practise in Malaysia. There seems to be no evidence of such a course, or of any national level training course for the existing Certificate of Legal Practise.<\/p>\n Carter has also claimed to have produced the \u201cinaugural\u201d Handbook in Legal Practise for Malaysia, in the late 80s. A search of the main law libraries in Malaysia directed by the Chief Registrar, Federal Court Malaysia, has not found any such handbook.<\/p>\n He has also claimed to have, during that time to have identified and addressed \u201cgaps\u201d in Malaysian legal practise, but not even those in practice during that period and since have ever heard of him. Nor are senior practitioners aware of \u00a0\u201cgaps\u201d that needed that to be addressed by external consultants.<\/p>\n As CEO of the College Carter \u00a0has ultimate responsibility for the College\u2019s Malaysian operation headed by Tritt and variously named the \u201cCollege Of Law Asia Pacific\u201d and the \u201cCollege Of Law Asia\u201d. A search by NMT has not revealed any entities registered under those names in Malaysia or in Australia, not even a foreign entities registered to conduct business in Malaysia.<\/p>\n Meanwhile the College, in collaboration with the Bar Council continues to sell its LLM and other courses in Malaysia, deriving a fee income from Malaysian courses.<\/p>\n -NMT<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" KUALA LUMPUR, July 19 – The Malaysian Bar Council launched its first education venture, a…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2359,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[5612,5611,1617],"class_list":["post-2354","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-scandal","tag-college-of-law","tag-fareed-gafoor","tag-malaysian-bar"],"featured_image_urls":{"full":["https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/Bar-collaw.png",740,332,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/Bar-collaw-150x150.png",150,150,true],"medium":["https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/Bar-collaw-300x135.png",300,135,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/Bar-collaw.png",640,287,false],"large":["https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/Bar-collaw.png",640,287,false],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/Bar-collaw.png",740,332,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/Bar-collaw.png",740,332,false],"newsium-slider-full":["https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/Bar-collaw.png",740,332,false],"newsium-featured":["https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/Bar-collaw.png",740,332,false],"newsium-medium":["https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/Bar-collaw.png",720,323,false]},"author_info":{"info":["Editor"]},"category_info":"Scandal<\/a>","tag_info":"Scandal","comment_count":"0","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2354","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2354"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2354\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2361,"href":"https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2354\/revisions\/2361"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2359"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2354"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2354"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2354"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Key person suddenly retired during extensive query<\/strong><\/h5>\n
Questionable advertising claims?<\/strong><\/h5>\n