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Mogish with implementing a recent review report prepared
by former College CEO, Chris Roper.
The LCA has prepared a draft report and recommendations
Potential partnering in online legal education that are currently under consideration. ▄▌
epresentatives of a major Indian online legal publishing
R company visited College HQ in Sydney this week, to 2017 LawAsia International Moot Competition
pursue a potential partnering arrangement with the College to
deliver online legal education to some of India’s 1,273,289 he College has been sponsoring the annual LawAsia
lawyers - with Uttar Pradesh, its most populous state, alone T International Moot Competition since 2013. The
having 288,297 lawyers. competition is held in conjunction with the annual conference
of LawAsia - the international organisation of the region’s
The visit follows two earlier meetings with the company - with
COL Asia Director Peter Tritt in Colombo, Sri Lanka (while national legal professions. Every second year it includes the
attending LawAsia’s 2016 Annual Conference in August biennial conference of Chief Justices of Asia and the Pacific
2016), and with CEO Neville Carter at the company’s Delhi and Chief Justices often end up judging the Moot final - as
HQ in November 2016. happened when the College hosted the
2015 competition in Sydney.
Consideration is currently being given to a possible Joint
Venture. ▄▌ The moot competition has a facebook
page and a Wikipedia entry - which has a
history of the event since it began in Gold
Coast, Queensland in 2005, when the
conference was hosted by the Queensland
PNG Law Society and Legal Training Institute Law Society. The 2016 Competition was
in Colombo, Sri Lanka last August.
Law Council of Australia (LCA) project, to assist the
A Papua New Guinea Law Society develop a CPD This year’s competition is being held in
programme for PNG legal practitioners, has been supported Tokyo in conjunction with LawAsia’s 30th Annual Conference
by the College. The LCA included COL Asia Director Peter (hosted by the Bar Federation of Japan) and the Asia-Pacific
Tritt in a 3-person team that visited PNG, in October 2016, to Chief Justices’ biennial conference. The conference dates are
review CPD arrangements and to report back to the PNG Law 18-21 September 2017.
Society with recommendations. College teams are eligible to enter the competition. Any
College of Law interested in participating in this year’s moot
The LCA team met with everyone who was anyone in the should contact the COL Asia Director for further information.
PNG legal profession - from the Chief Justice to recent law
graduates. Pauline Mogish, Director of the PNG Legal
Training Institute, was among those with whom the team met
to discuss the legal profession’s training needs.
The College has offered help in two forms:
 To assist the PNG Law Society with online CPD.
 To assist the PNG Legal Training Institute Director Pauline

ASIAN LAWYERS
ASEAN has just under 200,000 lawyers within
its 10 national jurisdictions..
In Asia there are more than 2 million lawyers,
with more than half that number in India alone.
Incomes within the region vary immensely. From
wealthy Singapore, where the average monthly
take home pay is 2.43% higher than in Australia,
to Malaysia where it is less than one-third of
what it is in Australia, to Vietnam where it is
under one-tenth of what it is in Australia.

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