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A new 12-page COL Asia Profile publication (cover below) was
also produced for distribution at the conference - along with
ALP and PLT Plus handbooks and the handbook for the new
Bar Council Malaysia and College sign MOU International Legal English and Professional Skills (ILEPS)
programme.
ollege CEO Neville Carter and Bar Council Malaysia
C (BCM) president, Steven Thiru, signed a Memorandum of
Understanding (MOU), on 21 September 2018, to collaborate
on postgraduate legal education and
training for the 17,000-member
Malaysian legal profession.
The first areas of collaboration are:
 A complementary CPD
programme for Malaysian lawyers
and pupils.
 Revising the BCM’s mandatory
pre-admission Ethics and
Professional Standards course.
Bar Council Malaysia
 Developing LLM Applied Law
subjects in Malaysian legal practice.
President Thiru announced the MOU to 300-plus delegates
who assembled for the BCM’s major biennial conference - the
2016 International Malaysia Law Conference (IMLC), held in
Kuala Lumpur on 21-23 September 2016. ▄▌

2016 International Malaysia Law Conference
he Bar Council’s 2016 International Malaysia Conference
T (follow link to conference papers) was an opportunity for
the College to launch its collaboration MOU and to build brand
awareness within the Malaysian legal profession - as a major
sponsor and as a booth exhibitor.

Thanks to Nick Cao and Christine Simmonds’ Marketing team
for creating the back-page story and the other marketing
collateral created for the conference. ▄▌

Complimentary CPD programme launched
embers of the Malaysian Bar gained access to a
M complimentary online CPD programme - yes, it’s spelt
that way in Malaysia too - on 23 January 2017.
A Bar Council All Member Circular informed members of the
new CPD service - which is offered in terms of the MOU
between the College and the Bar Council.
The programme consists of a selection of online CPD, the
The College of Law booth at the 2016 IMLC “How to …” series, and all 30 individual modules of the
College’s International Legal English and Professional Skills
(ILEPS) programme. The ILEPS programme has been made
The sponsorship included a full back-page College advertorial available on a MOOC-like basis - with customers able to
in the conference’s daily print newspaper. Links to digital choose to pay to formally complete a module.
copies of the three issues are below. Read about the The programme is designed to help Bar Council members
conference and go to the back page of each issue to read comply with a new mandatory CPD regime that the BCM
about the College’s story in Malaysia: recently introduced. The scheme, passed by a bare 1-vote
majority of members at an AGM, applies only to recently
 Issue #1 admitted practitioners.
 Issue #2 Thanks to Jodie Perkins and Anna-Marie Stella’s Content
 Issue #3 Design & Development team for creating the programme in

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