SC picks Zambo as Bar Exam venue

THE LOCAL government thanked the Supreme Court for choosing Zamboanga City as one of the venues for the Bar Examinations set in November this year.

Mayor Beng Climaco with Supreme Court personnel. (Bong Serondo)

The Bar Examination is the professional licensure examination for lawyers and is exclusively administered by the Supreme Court through the Supreme Court Bar Examination Committee. 

The rule limits to five the number of times a candidate may take the Bar exams. The rule disqualifies a candidate after failing in three examinations. However, he is permitted to take fourth and fifth examinations if he successfully completes a one-year refresher course for each examination. 

Mayor Beng Climaco has met with the personnel from the Supreme Court headed by Atty. Jul Ahmed Gaspar accompanied by Executive Judge Peter Eisma and other local court officials to discuss the needed preparations for the conduct of the Bar Examinations this November to be held at the Ateneo de Zamboanga University. 

The other venues of the Bar Examinations are the Ateneo de Manila University; Manila Adventist College; SLU Baguio; Saint Louis College – La Union; Saint Mary’s University; Cagayan State University; De La Salle Lipa; University of Nueva Caceres; University of St. La Salle – Bacolod; Central Philippine University; University of Cebu – Banilad; Mindanao State University – Iligan; Mindanao State University – General Santos City; Ateneo de Davao University; and Xavier University – Cagayan de Oro.

Bar chairman and Associate Justice Marvic Leonen said the en banc approved the modality of the examinations which is digitalized, localized and proctored. He said the Supreme Court might have a total of 25 testing sites throughout the country to accommodate more examinees. (Zamboanga Post)