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The Philippine Bar Examinations is the professional licensure examination for lawyers in the Philippines. The exam is exclusively administered by the Supreme Court of the Philippines through the Supreme Court Bar Examination Committee. [1]
Bar topnotchers in the Philippines are bar examinees who garnered the highest bar exam grades in a particular year. Every year, the Supreme Court releases the bar top ten list. The list contains the names of bar examinees who obtained the ten highest grades.
The 2010 Bar exam was the last to be conducted in De La Salle University before the eventual return of the bar exams in the university in 2022. [1] [2] The 2011 exam was held at the University of Santo Tomas (UST) in November. The Supreme Court denied that the bombing precipitated the move; the change had already been planned before the blast.
In the Philippines, it is the Supreme Court that exclusively administers the Bar Examinations and every year, a Supreme Court Justice becomes the Bar Chairperson. Leonen was supposed to be the chairperson exclusively for the 2020 Bar Exams (which was postponed), but the scope of his watch got extended to the 2021 batch because of the challenges ...
For candidates intending to practice Islamic law in the Philippines, the Special Bar Exams for Shari'a Court Lawyers is given every two years. The Supreme Court Bar Office conducts the exam while the Office of Muslim Affairs determines the qualification and eligibility of candidates to the exams. [17]
In the 2016 Bar Examination results released by the Supreme Court on May 3, 2017, a hundred percent of the first time takers from the college passed the bar exam. The results also revealed that 76.19 percent of the retakers from the college successfully passed the said exam.
The 2001 bar exam had the highest number of passers -- 1,266 out of 3,849 examinees, or 32.89%, while 2006 had the highest examinees -.6,187. Also, the 2003 bar exam was marred by controversy when the Court ordered a retake of the Mercantile law due to questionnaire leakage.Inquirer.net, First bar exam in RP held in 1901, with 13 test takers
He topped the 1944 bar exam (Roll No. 5, Diokno was the first Filipino lawyer to take his oath and appear on the post-war Roll of Attorneys on July 26, 1945) [17] together with a 24 year old future ally named Jovito Salonga with a score of 95.3, the highest since the language of instruction switched to English.