The Dickson Poon School of Law

Yeoh Tiong Lay LLM Scholarship Application 2017

The Yeoh Tiong Lay LLM Scholarship Programme is aimed at enabling the brightest and best students to obtain a
world class legal education regardless of their background. The level of competition for the Scholarships is high and
Yeoh Tiong Lay Scholars are expected to play an active role in the School community during their studies and in the
global community after graduation. The Scholarships are made possible by the generous support of the family of
Dato’ Mark Yeoh.

How to complete the application form:

1. Please download and save a copy of the application form, adding your name to the filename and following
this example: “2017 Yeoh Tiong Lay LLM Scholarship (YOUR NAME)”.
2. Section 1: please provide the details requested in the text boxes. In particular please ensure that you have
included your student applicant number.
3. Section 2: please paste/type your answer into the text box, ensuring you do not exceed 1500 words.
4. Section 3: please paste/type your answer into the text box, ensuring you do not exceed 200 words.
5. Send your completed application form to the Law PGT Admissions Team via the Admissions Portal by no
later than the application deadline below. Please type “2017 Yeoh Tiong Lay LLM Scholarship (YOUR
NAME)” in the subject line of the message.
6. The deadline is midnight GMT on Thursday 13 April 2017. Applications received after this date will not
be considered. All applications received by this date will be considered for the scholarships. The Selection
Panel will award Scholarships by early June 2017.
7. We will write to you and inform you by early June 2017 regarding the outcome of your application.
8. To find out more about applying for the LLM Programme, please contact the Law PGT Admissions Office.

1. Your details

Surname

Forename

Email

Student Applicant Number*

*This information is essential

and can be found on your
King’s Apply account and on
your offer letter

2. Essay question – “Consider the extent, if any, that transnational law affects national legal systems in one (or
more) specific areas.”
Your answer should not exceed 1500 words. Longer answers will not be considered.

Guidelines for answering the questions:

There are numerous possible answers to this question. What we are interested in is seeing how you develop an
argument and how you handle the factors that you have taken into account in reaching your conclusion.

We hope that you will enjoy the question – good luck!

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 3. Personal Statement - your Ambitions & Goals
We’d like to get to know you better. So please tell us briefly about your ambitions and goals once you have
completed your legal studies at King’s. Your answer should not exceed 200 words. Longer answers will not
be considered.

Disclaimer
The Dickson Poon School of Law may wish to use an excerpt from your application for marketing purposes. Your name
and any information that may reveal your identity will not be included.

Please indicate below whether you authorise this use. Your decision will have no impact on your scholarship application:
The School may use my application in this way
The School may NOT use my application in this way

Declaration: By submitting this form:

 I understand that my application for a scholarship is valid only if all required information is provided by the
set deadline. I understand that if the information is not submitted my scholarship application will not be
considered.
 I confirm that I have read and accept the terms and conditions of the 2017 Yeoh Tiong Lay LLM Scholarship
Programme, including the Guidance Notes.
 I give permission for The Dickson Poon School of Law to obtain copies of my academic transcripts and
references (etc) that I submitted with my admissions application.

Data Protection: By submitting this form, you agree that King’s College London may process your information
and keep a copy of your form for the purposes of administering the Yeoh Tiong Lay LLM Scholarship Programme, to
collect statistics and detect and prevent fraud, in accordance with the College’s Data Protection Policy. The Data
Protection Act allows you to ask us for a copy of all the information we have about your application.

Terms and Conditions

1. The Programme is open to offer-holders of a place on the King’s LLM programme commencing in September
2017 (2017 entry). Scholarships will be awarded to offer-holders on the basis of outstanding merit and not on
the basis of financial need.

2. The award of a scholarship to an offer-holder will be conditional on (i) the offer-holder accepting a place on the
King’s LLM programme and (ii) fulfilment by the offer-holder of all conditions, both academic and English
Language, attached to his or her offer of a place at King’s by 31 August 2017. Deposits are not required until a
decision has been made on the scholarships, unsuccessful scholarship candidates will need to pay their
programme deposit within two weeks of the outcome.

3. The scholarships are intended to benefit students enrolled on the LLM programme at The Dickson Poon School
of Law, King’s College London. You will forfeit your scholarship if you transfer to another university or other
institution, transfer to any other King's programme, or (subject to 4 below) withdraw as or otherwise cease to be
a fulltime undergraduate Law student at the School. If the School makes a payment under the scholarship to you
in these circumstances, you will be required to refund this amount to the School immediately. You will not be
required to refund previous Scholarship payments provided these were made while you were duly studying at
the School.

4. If you interrupt your studies due to serious illness, accident or other reasonable cause, you must notify the
School in writing as soon as possible. In these circumstance the School will, provided that it is satisfied that the
reason for the interruption is reasonable, defer the payment of any remaining part of the Scholarship to the
academic year in which you resume your studies.

5. As scholarships are awarded on the basis of merit, scholarship holders are expected to maintain or exceed a high
upper second class honours standard or an equivalent overseas qualification throughout the course of their
studies at the School. Should you fail to do so, or if you are required by the School to repeat any part of your
studies and/or to re-sit any examinations, the School may choose to withdraw the award of the scholarship.
Should this happen no further payments will be made to you under the scholarship.

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6. You may hold a scholarship together with any other funding or scholarship received from any other person or
organisation, with the exception of any fee waiver granted by the College.

7. We may choose to withdraw the scholarship if you engage in any conduct that materially damages or is intended
to damage the reputation of the Programme, School or the College.

8. If you have been awarded the scholarship expressly reserved for residents of Malaysia, you will be required to
sign a written statement to the effect that you intend to return to your country of residence upon completion of
your studies.

9. You may be asked to participate in promotional activity in support of the Programme, and you should be willing
to do so at the reasonable request of the School.

10. The School reserves the right to amend the terms and conditions of the Programme and any arrangements
contained in the Guidance Notes.