SMU School of Law's Auditing Programme AY2012/2013 Term 3A (Apr to May 2013)

CLE is pleased to invite members of the legal fraternity in Singapore and other interested parties to apply to audit selected courses offered by the SMU School of Law.

Persons auditing the course are welcome to attend and observe seminars taught by our instructors. They are exempted from course requirements (such as project assignments, final exams etc) and are expected to abide by the guidelines of the respective course instructors on class participation. Persons auditing the course should be highly proficient in English.

A certificate of attendance will be awarded at the end of the course, provided the person auditing the course has attended at least 75% of the relevant classes.

For practising lawyers who wish to claim for the Public CPD Points (under the SILE’s CPD Scheme), kindly note that participants may obtain the Public CPD points only if there is a minimum attendance rate of 75%. The final Public CPD points will be awarded on a pro-rated basis based on the actual attendance rate.

Example 1: No Public CPD points will be awarded based on 60% attendance rate

 Example 2: 27 Public CPD points will be awarded based on 75% attendance rate

 Example 3: 36 Public CPD points will be awarded based on 100% attendance rate

Persons auditing the course will, for purposes of the course, be granted physical access to the SMU Li Ka Shing Library to refer to the books within the library and may borrow books from the Course Reserves section for 2 hours for use only within the library.

However persons auditing the course will not have borrowing privileges at the SMU Li Ka Shing Library. They also will not have access to the Library’s electronic databases (ebooks / ejournals / edatabases) and restricted copyrighted materials. In addition, there is no access to SMU sports facilities.

Persons auditing the course, and who are from overseas, are not entitled to apply for Student Visa. They will be required to apply for their own Visa / Pass by referring to the Immigration & Checkpoints Authority (ICA) website - http://www.ica.gov.sg/.

Courses in the Academic Year 2012/2013 Term 3A will commence on the week of 29 April 2013 and classes are expected to be completed by end-May 2013. The number of places available for each course is limited. Registration will be subject to availability of places and the consent of the instructor in question, which is given on a case-by-case basis. A written confirmation will be sent to successful applicants approximately 2 weeks before the start of the course.

Attached are the list of courses available for audit (Appendix A) and the details of the finalised class schedules (Appendix B).

The fee for auditing each course is listed as follows. The fee is non-refundable and this applies even if the persons auditing the course did not attend any or all of the classes.

To apply, please submit a completed application form together with a recent passport-sized coloured photo, a photocopy of your NRIC / FIN card and a crossed cheque made payable to “Singapore Management University”, to the following address:

Application to audit courses in the Academic Year 2012/2013 Term 3A will close on Wednesday, 17 April 2013. 

The SMU School of Law reserves the right of cancellation. Full refund will be given to an applicant if the application is unsuccessful or his or her course is cancelled. We regret that no refund will be given in any other circumstances.

For further enquiries, please contact Ms Sascha Ng at email: saschang@smu.edu.sg or DID: 6828 1913.

About the SILE’s Continuing Professional Development Scheme

This programme is an Accredited CPD Activity under the SILE’s CPD Scheme. Participants who are not absent for more than 15 minutes after the commencement of the activity shall be awarded the full CPD Points approved by SILE. To ensure the award of CPD Points, participants are reminded to sign-in on arrival and sign-out at the conclusion of the event at the Registration Counter. Please refer to www.sileCPDcentre.org.sg for more information on the Attendance Policy and the CPD Scheme.