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APPLICATION FORM

Please complete the application form and send it together with:

  • A photocopy of your NRIC/Passport:
  • Singapore Citizens/ Permanent Residents: A copy of NRIC
  • Foreigners: A copy of your passport personal particulars page
  • A crossed cheque with the relevant amount and made payable to “SMU”. Please indicate your name and contact number at the back of the cheque
  • Completed Annex A form

To: Graduate Programme Office (LLM-Audit)

School of Law

c/o Lee Kong Chian School of Business

50 Stamford Road, 4th Floor

Singapore 178899

Fax:6828 0805

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- colour photograph in JPEG format
- file size shall not exceed 4MB
- dimension of at least 354 (width) by 472 (height) in pixels
- clear image taken with at least a 2 megapixel camera

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Common Law & Legal Writing Workshop

Interested parties can apply to attend the Introduction to Common Law Workshop (of 4 sessions of 3 hours each) or Legal Writing Workshop (of 2 sessions of 2 hours each)offered by the SMU School of Law. The feesare S$800 and S$400 respectively.*

If you attend the Common Law Workshopas well as audit a course, the fee for the workshop will be S$500* instead.

If you attend both the Common Law and Legal Writing Workshops, the fee for both will be S$1,000* instead of S$1,200.

A visitor’s pass will be issued to those attending the workshops.

Courses in the LLM Programme

Auditing without assessment - Auditee

Interested parties can apply to audit selected LLM courses offered by the SMU School of Law at S$4,000* per module. Each course has 10 sessions of 3 hours each.

Auditees have to be highly proficient in English and must abide by the guidelines of the course instructor and participate actively in class. Auditees are exempted from course assessment.

An auditee who attends at least 80% of the classes will receive a Certificate of Attendance at the end of the course.

Auditing with assessment- Guest Participant

Alternatively, interested parties may wish to be assessed and graded for their audit module.

You will be assessed in the same manner as LLM participants in the course. A Certificate of Completion reflecting the grade obtained will be issued at the end of the course.

With effect from 2013, the completed course may be taken into account if you apply for enrollment in the LLM programme in the following academic year (i.e. if you audit the course in 2013, it will be taken into account in your enrollment application in 2014). Upon admission into the programme, youmay be exempted from the module(s) (up to a maximum of 2 modules) and the exemption(s) will be recorded in the transcript.

Library & Sport Facilities Access

Guest participants are granted access to the SMU Li Ka Shing Library with borrowing privileges. Only on-site access to the Library’s electronic databases (ebooks / journals / databases) and restricted copyrighted materials will be granted. Access to SMU sports facilities is not granted.

Student Visa Application

Overseas parties auditing the course are not entitled to apply for Student Visa. You will be required to apply for your own Visa/Pass. Please refer to the Immigration & Checkpoints Authority (ICA) website -

Class Hours

Classes are conducted in the morning (9am to 12nn) and in the afternoon (2pm – 5pm) on the dates indicated in Annex A.

Application Deadline

  1. Common Law Workshop, Legal Writing WorkshopMay 2013 course:

2 April 2013

  1. June 2013 courses: 2 May 2013
  2. July 2013 courses: 2 June 2013
  3. August 2013 course: 2 July 2013
  4. September 2013 course: 2 August 2013
  5. October 2013 courses: 2 September 2013
  6. January 2014 courses: 2 November 2013
  7. February 2014 courses: 2 January 2014
  8. March 2014 courses: 2 February 2014
  9. April 2014 courses: 2 March 2014

Auditing Fees

Organisations with 3 or more participants auditing in ONE term will receive a 10% discount on the course fees. Please email for details.

Cheques should be crossed and made payable to “SMU”. Please indicate name and contact number at the back of the cheque.

*The Goods and Services Tax (GST) is included in the application fees. Please note that the fees can only be refunded if the course is cancelled or if the application is withdrawn before the issuance of the student card. The fees would not be refunded because of non- or partial attendance of the course.

Annex A – Selected List of LLM Courses for AY 2013-2014 for Auditing

Please indicate auditing course choices with a “”

AY 2013-2014 - Pre-Term
Description / Cost (SGD) / Auditing
Common Law Workshop ONLY – 26th and 27th April 2013 / 800.00
Legal Writing Workshop ONLY – 18th May 2013 / 400.00
Common Law Workshop + Legal Writing Workshop / 1000.00
Common Law Workshop with Course (Please “ ”courses below) / 500.00
Term 1 (May – Jul 2013)
Month / Dates / Days / Course Code/Course Name / Auditing / Auditing with Assessment
May / 3,4,10,11 / Fri, Sat, Fri, Sat / Business, Strategy & Organisation
June / 7,8,14,15,22 / Fri, Sat, Fri, Sat, Sat / International Arbitration: Law & Practice
Introduction to Islamic law & Commercial Transactions
July / 5,6,12,13,20 / Fri, Sat, Fri, Sat, Sat / Corporate Crime
Islamic Legal Documentation
& Risk Management
Term 2 (Aug – Oct 2013)
August / 2,3,10,16,17 / Fri, Sat, Sat, Fri, Sat / Law and Technologies of the Twenty-First Century
September / 30(Aug),31(Aug),6,7,14 / Fri, Sat, Fri, Sat, Sat / Law of Agency
13,20,21,27,28 / Fri, Fri, Sat, Fri, Sat / Islamic Capital Market
October / 4,5,11,12,19 / Fri, Sat, Fri, Sat, Sat / Mergers & Acquisitions
24,25,26,28,29 / Thurs, Fri, Sat, Mon, Tues / International Commercial Mediation
Term 3 (Jan 2014)
January / NA
Term 4 ( Feb – Apr 2014)
February / 7,8,14,15,22 / Fri, Sat, Fri, Sat, Sat / Commercialisation of IP
7,8,14,15,22 / Fri, Sat, Fri, Sat, Sat / Islamic Dispute Resolution
March / 7,8,14,15,22 / Fri, Sat, Fri, Sat, Sat / Comparative Competition Law
Mar/Apr / 27-29 Mar, 31 Mar, 1 Apr / Thurs, Fri, Sat, Mon, Tues / Islamic Wealth Management
April / 4,5,11,12,19 / Fri, Sat, Fri, Sat, Sat / Contract Remedies
4,5,11,12,19 / Fri, Sat, Fri, Sat, Sat / Law & Economic Development: Asian Experiences

Annex B –Applicant’s Details

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