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This has led to a dramatic decrease in the national passing rate of bar examinees, from an all-time high of 75.17% in 1954 to an all-time low of 16.59% in 1999 (all-time low should have been the single digit 5% national passing rate for the 2007 bar examination if the Supreme Court did not lower the passing average to 70% and lowered the ...
Florenz Regalado – former Philippine Supreme Court Justice; 1st placer, 1954 Bar Exams; Adolfo Azcuna – Philippine Supreme Court Justice; 4th placer, 1962 Bar Exams; Antonio Eduardo Nachura – Philippine Supreme Court Justice; 7th placer, 1967 Bar Exams; Presbitero Velasco, Jr. – Philippine Supreme Court Justice; 6th placer, 1971 Bar Exams
Vicente Garma Ericta (February 15, 1915 - February 18, 2007) was a former associate justice of the Supreme Court of the Philippines.He was sworn in as a member of the Supreme Court by President Ferdinand Marcos on November 20, 1981, but resigned on May 11, 1982 [1] after being involved in a scandal over the admission of his son as a lawyer, in a case that also saw the resignation of the entire ...
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
The Supreme Court (SC) is the highest court of the land and is the court of last resort. [ 1 ] : 6 It is led by the Chief Justice , who is joined by 14 Associate Justices . [ 1 ] : 39 The court has expansive powers and a constitutional responsibility to oversee other branches of government, able even to overrule the discretion of political and ...
In March 1982, Herrera resigned as chair of the court's examination committee after revealing that the mercantile law grades of Associate Justice Vicente Ericta's son Gustavo, who took the 1981 Philippine Bar Examinations, was changed from 56 to 58 percent prior to publication of the test results to enable him to pass with a general average of ...
The lone North Carolina Supreme Court race remained too close to call Friday morning, with Republican Jefferson Griffin leading Democratic incumbent Allison Riggs by just 0.06% or 3,649 votes.
This is the list of justices of the Supreme Court of the Philippines from 1901 to present. List in chronological order ... May 17, 1940: Dec. 8, 2006 Panganiban: