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by ausinsg » Wed, 20 Jul 2011 6:35 pm
The UOL LLB external program is no longer recognised for practice in Singapore. The rules changed around 1996. People who are admitted to the bar in Singapore are from before this time.
As was mentioned external LLB programs are not recognised for admission to the bar in Singapore. Neither are law degrees studied on a part-time basis.
JDs are only accepted from four specific american universities and SMU here in Singapore.
You normally need to be in the top 30% of your cohort for your accepted foreign law degree to be allowable for practice in Singapore. There are several appendices in the links from MinLaw which state which universities have acceptable LLB degrees.
There is also a nice little catch about needing to be admitted to the bar in the country which the degree is from/ recognised. So they have lots of protection for the local lawyers.
You can study the LLB external program here from UOL for your own interest. Or you can go to england/wales and do you law clerkship/pupilage and be admitted to the bar there. Or maybe see if there is a way to do pupilage in Malaysia, where the degree is recognised, then try to join the bar there.
This will let you be a foreign lawyer in Singapore. So you can work for a company advising on the law and agreements in the country which you have been admitted to the bar in. But you can not be a practicing lawyer in Singapore.
UOL also have a time frame within which you need to complete the whole LLB course to be able to apply for the bar. If you stretch it out for too long, it will not be accepted.
What some local students do, is to do the diploma in law from UOL at one of the private colleges here. That is the first year of the LLB, then use that to get accepted to a law school in england/wales. Then go over and do the whole degree over there, making sure not to get any credit. Then using the fact they did the degree at an acceptable overseas uni, then come back here and study the diploma at NUS, then join a local firm.
You just need to ask yourself why you are interested in studying it.