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Forum: Immigration, Visas & Citizenship (Australia)
Jun 28th 2009, 10:10 am
Replies: 86
Views: 18,599
Posted By imotay

Re: requalifying as a solicitor in australia

Hi Auds

Nice to hear from you and to know that this harsh approach seems to be affecting Vic aswell as NSW. Appealing got us nowhere, so it looks like we have to take all these courses. Very...
Forum: Immigration, Visas & Citizenship (Australia)
May 19th 2009, 9:24 pm
Replies: 86
Views: 18,599
Posted By imotay

Re: requalifying as a solicitor in australia

Hi Gordon

Thanks for the info.

I emailed Monika about whether I only need to sit Property Law II, and her response was very vague. She just said that LPAB in the past have granted exemptions in...
Forum: Immigration, Visas & Citizenship (Australia)
May 17th 2009, 3:15 pm
Replies: 86
Views: 18,599
Posted By imotay

Re: requalifying as a solicitor in australia

Hi Gordon and Sarah

I have looked at UNE and have downloaded their application form. I have discovered one good thing - practice & procedure and evidence are covered by one course - so I have to...
Forum: Immigration, Visas & Citizenship (Australia)
May 12th 2009, 9:52 pm
Replies: 86
Views: 18,599
Posted By imotay

Re: requalifying as a solicitor in australia

Hi Sarah

I have just received my letter from the Board re: academic exemptions (took ages), I too am gutted. I have to take 6 subjects - Real Prop, Oz Constitutional, Admin Law, Evidence,...
Forum: Immigration, Visas & Citizenship (Australia)
Mar 19th 2009, 8:45 pm
Replies: 86
Views: 18,599
Posted By imotay

Re: requalifying as a solicitor in australia

hi Sarah

Right, we can take Accounts and Professional Responsibility (hopefully the only practical courses we need to take) through the College of Law as independent subjects. Still accredited by...
Forum: Immigration, Visas & Citizenship (Australia)
Mar 15th 2009, 5:13 pm
Replies: 86
Views: 18,599
Posted By imotay

Re: requalifying as a solicitor in australia

Hi Emma

Thanks for the info.

Do you have contact details of anyone you have spoken to at UNE about the courses?

I really wanted to be able to take the courses & exams in my own time, rather...
Forum: Immigration, Visas & Citizenship (Australia)
Mar 15th 2009, 5:00 pm
Replies: 86
Views: 18,599
Posted By imotay

Re: requalifying as a solicitor in australia

Hi Sarah - yup, forms have been sent.....the wait is on. I'll let you know when I hear back & what courses I have to take.

Have you thought about where you are going to take the courses? I had a...
Forum: Immigration, Visas & Citizenship (Australia)
Mar 4th 2009, 10:16 pm
Replies: 86
Views: 18,599
Posted By imotay

Re: requalifying as a solicitor in australia

Hi Sarah - I did something called Legal Institutions and Methods which seems very similar to the content they expect for civil procedure. I'm not sure what subject on the LPC covers this. Which...
Forum: Immigration, Visas & Citizenship (Australia)
Feb 28th 2009, 6:25 pm
Replies: 86
Views: 18,599
Posted By imotay

Re: requalifying as a solicitor in australia

Hi Emma

Thanks for the advice.

Hopefully, coming from the UK it wont be necessary to do a Practical Legal Training course. We will just have to sit Trust Accounts, Constitutional Law and Legal...
Forum: Immigration, Visas & Citizenship (Australia)
Feb 24th 2009, 9:25 pm
Replies: 86
Views: 18,599
Posted By imotay

Re: requalifying as a solicitor in australia

Hi Sarah

No I haven't. I plan on working till Christmas. I haven't supplied a work reference with my applications either, as I don't want to alert work to me leaving. Did you send a reference?
...
Forum: Immigration, Visas & Citizenship (Australia)
Feb 23rd 2009, 8:31 pm
Replies: 86
Views: 18,599
Posted By imotay

Re: requalifying as a solicitor in australia

Hi Sarah

I sent both forms at the same time. I don't think it really matters that you didn't send the academic one first.

yeah I did public law on my degree and have tried to pass it off as the...
Forum: Immigration, Visas & Citizenship (Australia)
Feb 22nd 2009, 8:25 pm
Replies: 86
Views: 18,599
Posted By imotay

Re: requalifying as a solicitor in australia

Hi Sarah

Yeah, I googled Torrens Land System & realised it is pretty much the same as registering land at the Land Registry here in the UK. So I just explained that I had dealt with registering...
Forum: Immigration, Visas & Citizenship (Australia)
Feb 14th 2009, 7:57 am
Replies: 86
Views: 18,599
Posted By imotay

Re: requalifying as a solicitor in australia

Hi all

It looks like James has beaten me to it on answering your queries. He is the font of all knowledge.

James - I've just learnt something new from you.......that I can't do accounts and...
Forum: Immigration, Visas & Citizenship (Australia)
Jan 20th 2009, 8:25 am
Replies: 86
Views: 18,599
Posted By imotay

Re: requalifying as a solicitor in australia

Wow........unemployment. I'm exceedingly jealous.......that must be mean that you are about to head off to the sun.

Thanks for all your advice, you have certainly made this whole process a lot...
Forum: Immigration, Visas & Citizenship (Australia)
Jan 14th 2009, 3:20 pm
Replies: 86
Views: 18,599
Posted By imotay

Re: requalifying as a solicitor in australia

Hi James

Sorry for not responding to you before. I moved house mid -nov and I have only just managed to sort out the internet (BT and AOL are trying to give me a nervous breakdown). We have...
Forum: Immigration, Visas & Citizenship (Australia)
Nov 9th 2008, 10:06 pm
Replies: 86
Views: 18,599
Posted By imotay

Re: requalifying as a solicitor in australia

Hi James

Thanks for your reply - I hadn't noticed that website link on the form. Civil litigation and corporate will be a bit hard to show, but I did do corporate finance in last year of uni...
Forum: Immigration, Visas & Citizenship (Australia)
Nov 8th 2008, 12:38 pm
Replies: 86
Views: 18,599
Posted By imotay

Re: requalifying as a solicitor in australia

Hi F5
Really helpful advice - thanks. I will do the same as you & James did as it seems to have worked for you both.
Did you have to take any academic or practical courses/exams?

Some of the...
Forum: Immigration, Visas & Citizenship (Australia)
Nov 8th 2008, 12:29 pm
Replies: 86
Views: 18,599
Posted By imotay

Re: requalifying as a solicitor in australia

Hi James

Thanks again for the advice. You're lucky about your boss knowing, I feel like I'm living a bit of lie, pretending to be in it for the long run & yet planning my imminent escape!
When...
Forum: Immigration, Visas & Citizenship (Australia)
Nov 5th 2008, 10:34 pm
Replies: 86
Views: 18,599
Posted By imotay

Re: requalifying as a solicitor in australia

Hi James
Thanks for the advice. I've printed off all the forms and I am going to look through all my uni/law school results - I think I actually have most of the break downs, but not all, which...
Forum: Immigration, Visas & Citizenship (Australia)
Nov 5th 2008, 10:20 pm
Replies: 86
Views: 18,599
Posted By imotay

Re: requalifying as a solicitor in australia

Hi F5

Thanks for your post. Did you you choose NSW because it seemed like the most straight forward process? From what Jimbo3030 says and from what I have researched it seems that NSW are the only...
Forum: Immigration, Visas & Citizenship (Australia)
Nov 3rd 2008, 10:14 pm
Replies: 86
Views: 18,599
Posted By imotay

Re: requalifying as a solicitor in australia

Hi Jimbo3030

Thanks for replying. Really helpful advice. Apart from the NSW website all the others are quite vague about what is required. I have really struggled to find any information out and...
Forum: Immigration, Visas & Citizenship (Australia)
Nov 2nd 2008, 3:56 pm
Replies: 86
Views: 18,599
Posted By imotay

requalifying as a solicitor in australia

Hi everyone

I am a UK qualified solicitor hoping to emigrate to Australia June 2009 (when I am 3 years qualified and so have the right amount of points for the skilled visa).

I know I need to...
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