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College a bridge between Common Law and Civil Law
jurisdictions - with Vietnam as the prototype
alks with Vietnam law firms led to the conclusion that COL
T Asia’s initial focus in Vietnam should be on courses that
focus on teaching legal professional skills and knowledge
within the framework of understanding Common Law principles
and legal practice in the context of Vietnamese Civil Law. This
is to be the focus of the initial Vietnamese law LLM subject—
Lawyer’s Skills (Vietnam) that is scheduled to be developed in
2018. ▄▌

APEC comes to Vietnam in November 2017

Terri Mottershead speaking at the COL Asia sponsored PEC - the Asia Pacific Economic Council - has its 2017
A annual meeting in Da Nang Vietnam during the week
Kong), and Mr Michael Tidball (CEO of LawAsia), who is also commencing 6 November 2017 and a number of associated
CEO of the Law Society of New South Wales. The conference events have been organised around it.
is a biennial specialist event designed for those involved in the Among these is Promoting Investment
governance, management and operation of law society in APEC Economies - an event in Ho
professional indemnity insurance schemes. ▄▌ Chi Minh City (Saigon) on 4 November
2017 that is being hosted by the Inter-
Pacific Bar Association (IPBA) and the
Vietnam Business Lawyers Club (VBLC).
The VBLC, an organisation of nearly 90
members (17 Corporate, 50 Individual
Collaboration with Vietnam Bar Federation and 17 Associate members), is affiliated
to the Vietnam Bar Federation. It is
week-long series of meetings were held in Viet Nam in dedicated to “assembling and developing
A March 2017, to meet with law firms and potential a collaborative group composed of
collaboration partners in professional lawyers who are expert at
Vietnam, including the Vietnam legal, international traditions and foreign
Bar Federation (VBF) - the languages in order to meet the increasing demand of
Hanoi-based national body of international legal consultant.” The VLBC facebook page also
the Vietnamese legal profession has event information.
which has around 8,800 The College is a bronze sponsor of the event.
lawyers.
APEC week also features the Vietnam Business Summit 2017
College CEO Neville Carter, in Dan Nang on 7 November 2017, hosted by the Vietnam
Anne Tran and COL Asia Chamber of Commerce and Industry (VCCI). The event will
Director Peter Tritt had a first opened by the Prime Minister of Vietnam Nguyen Xuan Phuc,
meeting with the VBF’s and attended by the leaders of Vietnamese ministries and local
representatives at its new government. The Summit is also open to the representatives of
recently opened Hanoi headquarters on 13 March 2017. ▄▌ prominent international organizations, academics and
business leaders from Asia Pacific and global enterprises.
The main event will of course be the APEC Leaders Summit
featuring the likes of presidents Donald Trump, Xi Jinping and
Vladimir Putin and not forgetting lesser known APEC leaders
such as the prime ministers of Australia and New Zealand, ▄▌

LLM (Applied Law) in New Zealand Legal Practice
starts with February 2018 intake
he College’s new LLM (Applied Law) majoring in New
T Zealand Legal Practice is begin with seven subjects in
being offered in the February 2018 intake.
This new jurisdictional stream in the College’s LLM (Applied
Law) programme builds upon the existing COLNZ New
College CEO Neville Carter and Anne Trane outside the
Zealand Law and Practice Examination (NZLPE) preparation
new Hanoi headquarters of the Vietnam Bar Federation course for foreign lawyers. The new LLM programme will allow

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