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James featured in an item about the course on the local TV Vietnam collaboration partners
station’s evening news. It can be viewed on YouTube - with
the item starting at 9.04 minutes into the news. It’s in further series of meetings is being held in Vietnam,
Vietnamese of course. A during the week commencing 13 March 2017, to pursue
potential collaboration partnering arrangements with two
significant organisations:
Vietnam Bar Federation (VBF)
Ho Chi Minh City University of Law
HCMC University of Law is one of only two law universities in
Vietnam - the other being Hanoi University of Law.
Collaboration proposals include
a joint LLM degree and the
ILEPS programme.
The Vietnam Bar
Federation is the
national professional body of the Vietnamese
legal profession - which has around 8,800
Watch James Jung appear on the local TV station’s news.
lawyers. The collaboration proposal is similar to
what the College has with the Bar Council Malaysia.
Four training courses delivered in Auckland for CEO Neville Carter and Jane Tran will join the COL Asia
Director to meet with representatives of the two
Vietnam clients in collaboration with AUT University organisations, to follow up on earlier meetings held in
December 2016. ▄▌
he Quang Ninh training contract came after a successful
T series of training courses delivered to various Vietnam
Communist Party/Government officials in Auckland by the
COL Asia team:
Party Committee of Ho Chi Minh City (HCMC) - A 5-day
course on Zealand Employment Law for a group of 30 ASEAN+6 Cross-Border Practice LLM
lawyers, judges and officials from Ho Chi Minh City subject stream available in September 2017
(November 2015).
SEAN - the 10-nation Association of South East Asian
HCMC Department of Home Affairs - Two, back-to-back, A Nations - and its Free Trade Agreements with six
10-day courses on Dispute Resolution in the context of surrounding economies [Australia-New Zealand (jointly),
International Trade and Investment for two groups of 25 China, India Japan and Korea] provide the jurisdictional focus
officials from a range of HCMC Government agencies for a new Applied Law LLM subject stream focussed on cross
(August 2016) -border legal practice within the region.
Party Committee of HCMC - a 5-day course on various INITIAL ASEAN+6 CROSS-BORDER LLM SUBJECTS
aspects of New Zealand law for 23 LLM-qualified
participants on an 8-week AUT training course in New International Commercial Law Practice
Zealand (October-November 2016). International Mergers & Acquisitions Practice
These courses were delivered as part of a collaboration International Banking & Finance Practice
arrangement with Auckland’s AUT University, ▄▌
International Intellectual Property Law Practice
March 2017 training course in Ho Chi Minh City for a These initial four ASEAN+6 Cross-Border Practice subjects
Peoples Committee development company were prioritised by the Parthenon EY market research.
Eventually, a full range of international cross-border practice
n the recommendation of the Quang Ninh Party areas will be available within the ASEAN+6 subject stream.
O Committee, the College was asked to deliver the same 5 Semester 3 2017 subjects
-day dispute resolution training course to the staff of Tan
Thuan Industrial Promotion Company Limited (IPC) - an International Commercial Law Practice
investment company owned by the Ho Chi Minh City Peoples International Mergers & Acquisitions Practice.
Committee. Semester 1, 2018 subjects
The course will be delivered by Peter Tritt and James Jung International Banking & Finance Practice
on 20-24 March 2017 and Jane Tran will be introduced. International Intellectual Property Law Practice
Once delivered, this course will add to the College’s existing Co-badged LLM
tallies of training courses (5) and trainees (133) for It is envisaged that this subject stream will ultimately become
Vietnamese clients delivered in both New Zealand and part of an International Legal Practice LLM that is co-badged
Vietnam. These provide both useful contacts and a good with an international legal professional organisation - the Inter
track-record for pursuing future business development in -Pacific Bar Council (IPBA). A COL collaboration proposal is
Vietnam. ▄▌ currently under consideration by the IPBA’s executive body.
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