BM No 1153 Re - Letter of Atty. Estelito P. Mendoza Proposing Reforms in The Bar Examinations Through Amendments To Rule 138 of The Rules of Court

Re: Letter of Atty. Estelito P.
Mendoza Proposing Reforms in the Bar

Examinations Through Amendments to Rule 138 of the Rules of Court
Bar Matter No. 1153
Approval Date: March 09, 2010
Summary:
1. Atty. Estelito P. Mendoza proposed reforms in the Bar Examinations through amendments to Rule 138
of the Rules of Court
2. The Court Resolved to APPROVE the proposed amendments to Sections 5 and 6 of Rule 138
3. The amendments:
Original Amended
Section 5 Section 5
Additional Requirements for Other Applicants. — Additional Requirement for Other Applicants. —
All applicants for admission other than those All applicants for admission other than those
referred to in the two preceding sections, shall, referred to in the two preceding sections shall,
before being admitted to the examination, before being admitted to the examination,
satisfactorily show that they have regularly satisfactorily show that they have successfully
studied law for four years, and successfully completed all the prescribed courses for the
completed all prescribed courses, in a law school degree of Bachelor of Laws or its equivalent
or university, officially approved and recognized degree, in a law school or university officially
by the Secretary of Education. The affidavit of the recognized by the Philippine Government or by
candidate, accompanied by a certificate from the the proper authority in the foreign jurisdiction
University or school of law, shall be filed as where the degree has been granted.
evidence of such facts, and further evidence may
be required by the court. No applicant who obtained the Bachelor of Laws
degree in this jurisdiction shall be admitted to the
"NO APPLICANT SHALL BE ADMITTED TO bar examination unless he or she has
THE BAR EXAMINATIONS UNLESS HE HAS satisfactorily completed the following course in a
SATISFACTORILY COMPLETED THE law school or university duly recognized by the
FOLLOWING COURSES IN A LAW SCHOOL government: civil law, commercial law, remedial
OR UNIVERSITY DULY RECOGNIZED BY THE law, criminal law, public and private international
GOVERNMENT: CIVIL LAW, COMMERCIAL law, political law, labor and social legislation,
LAW, REMEDIAL LAW, CRIMINAL LAW, medical jurisprudence, taxation and legal ethics.
PUBLIC AND PRIVATE INTERNATIONAL LAW,
POLITICAL LAW, LABOR AND SOCIAL A Filipino citizen who graduated from a foreign
LEGISLATION, MEDICAL JURISPRUDENCE, law school shall be admitted to the bar
TAXATION AND LEGAL ETHICS." examination only upon submission to the
Supreme Court of certifications showing: (a)
completion of all courses leading to the degree of
Bachelor of Laws or its equivalent degree; (b)
recognition or accreditation of the law school by
the proper authority; and (c) completion of all the
fourth year subjects in the Bachelor of Laws
academic program in a law school duly
recognized by the Philippine Government.
Section 6 Section 6
Pre-Law. —
No applicant for admission to the bar examination Pre-Law. —
shall be admitted unless he presents a certificate
that he has satisfied the Secretary of Education, An applicant for admission to the bar examination
that, before he began the study of law, he had shall present a certificate issued by the proper
pursued and satisfactorily completed in an government agency that, before commencing the
authorized university or college, requiring for study of law, he or she had pursued and
admission thereto the completion of a four-year satisfactorily completed in an authorized and
high school course, the course of study recognized university or college, requiring for
prescribed therein for a bachelor's degree in arts admission thereto the completion of a four-year
or sciences with any of the following subjects as high school course, the course of study
major or field of concentration: political science, prescribed therein for a bachelor's degree in arts
logic, English, Spanish, history and economics. or sciences.
The requirement for applications for admission to A Filipino citizen who completed and obtained his
a law school shall be enforced from the school or her Bachelor of Laws degree or its equivalent
year 1960-1961. in a foreign law school must present proof of
having completed a separate bachelor's degree
course.
The Clerk of Court, through the Office of the Bar
Confidant, is hereby directed to CIRCULARIZE
this resolution among all law schools in the
country.

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Mendoza Proposing Reforms in the Bar

Bar Matter No. 1153

Approval Date: March 09, 2010

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