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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.
Two bar examinees topped the bar exams without officially graduating from any Philippine law school: [1] Jose W. Diokno – former Senator of the Philippines; 1st placer, 1945 bar exams. Diokno Sr., who tied for Number One with former Senate President Jovito Salonga in the 1945 Bar Exams, would have graduated from the University of Santo Tomas ...
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.
The Philippine Bar Examination is administered once every year on the four Sundays of November (September before 2011). [24] It covers eight areas of law: political law, labor law and social legislation, criminal law, civil law, commercial law, taxation law, remedial law, and legal ethics and practical exercises.
The fraternity has also produced 31 Philippine Bar Examination topnotchers, seven Senators, six justices of the Supreme Court, four Integrated Bar of the Philippines national presidents, three deans of the UP College of Law, six The Outstanding Young Men of the Philippines awardees, two The Outstanding Filipino Awardees, and 19 justices of the ...
Please do not vandalize. -- The first bar exam was held in 1901, with 13 examinees, while the 2008 bar examination is the 107th (given per Article 8, Section 5, 1987 Constitution). 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.
Diokno is the only person to top both the Philippine Bar Examination and the board exam for Certified Public Accountants (CPA). His career was dedicated to the promotion of human rights , the defense of Philippine sovereignty , and the enactment of pro-Filipino economic legislation.
Through the years, Aquila Legis has produced over 40 lawyers who reached the top ten of the Philippine Bar Examinations, four (now five) [14] of whom placed first. [15] [16] A number of alumnus bar topnotchers have gone on to distinguished public careers in government.