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Canvas and Anisah Ghani (Marketing) for setting up the legal practice.
website link page that allows BCM members to register as Undertaking the College programme would also assist
College customers. students prepare for the CLP exams - which only about 50%
Thanks also to Liz Hurley and of students successfully pass each year.
MALAYSIAN CPD RULES the Practitioner Education team The five subjects are being developed in a new LLM subject
Malaysia has a 24-month CPD for processing all the course template developed for the Content Design &
cycle - with 16 Points (Hours) registrations in Salesforce. To Development Directorate with the assistance of Jacqueline
required. The current cycle started date, 49 Malaysian practitioners Ramsay and Kris Greaves.
on 1 July 2016 and concludes on are registered as College Further Malaysian LLM subjects, based on the priorities
30 June 2018. CPD is mandatory customers - the first ever COL established in the Parthenon EY research findings, will be
only for lawyers admitted since 1 Asia customers, with whom the developed and offered in 2018. ▄▌
July 2011, and to pupils in cham- College will be able to build
bers who commenced pupillage future relationships.
from 1 July 2016. It is worth noting that offering Malaysian Bar 2017 AGM launch event for LLM
complimentary CPD in
he 71st Annual General Meeting (AGM) of The Malaysian
Malaysia is a market entry strategy, with the objective of it T Bar is to serve as the launch event for the new Malaysian
serving as a feeder into our LLM programmes. With a half-day subject stream within our LLM in Applied Law programme.
face-to-face CPD seminar selling in Malaysia for as little as $7,
entering the Malaysian CPD market is not an objective. ▄▌ The AGM attracts up to 1000 or more member lawyers to the
Malaysian capital each year, making it the perfect launch pad

for a new LLM programme that is being developed in
New Malaysian subject stream in Applied Law LLM collaboration with the Bar Council.

alaysian subject matter experts have been recruited The event is to be held at the Renaissance Plaza hotel on
M (with assistance from the Bar Council) to assist with Saturday, 18 March 2017. It is followed by an Annual Dinner.
developing the initial five subjects in the new LLM subject The College will be an event sponsor and exhibitor and will
stream based on Malaysian legal practice. use the event to distribute the new 2017 LLM Handbook - with
three new subject streams on offer in Trimester 3, 2017:
INITIAL MALAYSIAN LAW LLM SUBJECTS  Malaysian Legal practice (5 subjects)
 Civil Litigation Practice  ASEAN+6 Cross-Border Legal Practice (2 subjects)

 Commercial & Corporate Practice  New Zealand Legal Practice (3 subjects)
 Criminal Law Practice An updated COL Asia profile will also be distributed.
 Personal Injury & Torts Practice Thanks again to Nick Cao and Christine Simmonds’ Marketing
team. ▄▌
 Property Law Practice

The first five subjects are scheduled to be delivered in Kuala Lumpur base for COL Asia Directorate
Trimester 3, 2017 - which starts on 4 September 2017.
he COL Asia Directorate has been based in Kuala
These five subjects reflect much of the content covered by the
Certificate of Legal Practice (CLP) examination - a pre- T Lumpur, the Malaysian Federal Capital, since September
2016, with the relocation there of COL Asia Director Peter
admission exam run by Malaysia’s Legal Profession
Qualifying Board (LPBQ). Tritt. Kuala Lumpur provides a central hub to develop
business in Malaysia and in neighbouring ASEAN nations
The LPBQ requires law graduates from an approved list of such as Vietnam. ▄▌
foreign universities (Australia, New Zealand, Singapore, and
United Kingdom) to pass the CLP exams to gain admission to
the Malaysian Bar. However, law graduates from Malaysian
public universities are exempt from this requirement.
Initially, the College intended to develop a CLP Exam
Preparation Course, as a means of entering the Malaysian First College training course delivered in Vietnam
market. It would have been similar to the COLNZ New ctober 2016 saw the College deliver its first ever training
Zealand Law and Practice Examination (NZLPE) preparation O course in Vietnam - in Ha Long, capital of Vietnam’s
course, which prepares foreign lawyers for the NZLPE exams Quang Ninh province. It’s a relatively wealthy province
run by the New Zealand Council of Legal Education. (Vietnam’s wealthiest) on the border with China, which is
However, the Bar Council advised against this approach, as It famed for mining and tourism. The client was the Communist
wishes to eventually replace the CLP with a Common Bar Party Committee of Quang Ninh Province.
Course (CBC) that all Malaysian lawyers would complete. The The 5-day training course was on dispute resolution in the
CBC would be similar to an Australian-style PLT programme. context of international investment agreements. It was
The absence of a common PLT-style programme for all new- delivered by COL Asia’s two staff members - Director, Peter
entry Malaysian lawyers provided the College with a better Tritt and Programme Director, James Jung.
opportunity, To instead, offer a Master’s-level programme that The course venue was the provincial government’s purpose-
would bridge the gap between an academic law degree and built training centre and there were 30 course participants.

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