DAY 1. Three aspiring lawyers make their way to the Mindanao State University - Iligan in Lanao del Norte to take the Bar Examination on Friday (Feb. 4, 2022). The second day of the exam will be held Sunday (February 6). (Photo courtesy of Supreme Law Student Council of MSU-Iligan Facebook) MANILA - After a two-year hiatus and two postponements, the Bar Examination finally pushed through Friday, with more than 11,000 examinees in 31 local testing sites in 22 local government units. In an online press briefing, Bar chair and Supreme Court Associate Justice Marvic Leonen said at 8 a.m., 11,378 took the examination out of the 11,790 who paid application fees. The second day will be on Sunday. Due to health protocols against Covid-19, the vaccinated examinees were segregated from the unvaccinated. This year's Bar exam marked the first time that it was held in multiple venues, shortened to two days instead of the usual four, and conducted digitally with examinees bringing their own lapt
The University of Cebu-Banilad Campus. (Photo from UC-Banilad Psychology Program's FB page) CEBU CITY - The first day of the first-ever Bar Examination held outside Manila proceeded smoothly at two universities here, a ranking police official said on Friday. Lt. Col. Wilbert Parilla, Cebu City Police Office deputy director for operations, said in a presser that authorities recorded no untoward incidents in the vicinity of the University of Cebu-Banilad Campus and the University of San Jose Recoletos-Basak Campus where the first Bar Exam in Cebu is being held. "We don't allow supporters or even members of the families and relatives and even representatives of their law schools to stay near the entrance gates of the two universities," Parilla said. The police deployed 200 police personnel to secure the areas of Banilad and Basak starting at 3 a.m. The two schools were allowed to open their gates half an hour later and let the Bar examinees come in early, Parilla said. T
(File photo) MANILA - The Philippine National Police (PNP) on Thursday urged Bar examinees and their supporters to refrain from holding send-off activities in compliance with health protocols amid the coronavirus pandemic. "We also discourage send-offs of the exam takers to avoid any gathering or convergence of people. We have to focus on how we can conduct the bar exams in a safe and peaceful way," PNP chief, Gen. Dionardo Carlos said a statement, ahead of the conduct of the examinations on February 4 and 6. Carlos also reminded examinees to strictly follow the health protocol before, during, and after taking every examination. The PNP will deploy about 200 police officers in three university campuses in Cebu that will host the pilot implementation of the exams for aspiring lawyers outside Metro Manila. Carlos assured that the deployment of personnel will start early morning on the said dates to ensure that motorists around the vicinity of the campuses will be informed of te
Lawyer Nilo Divina penned an inspirational letter to all candidates of the 2020/2021 Bar examinations amid the still raging pandemic. The Bar examinations
Cebu will host over a thousand examinees of the 2020-21 Bar Examinations on February 4 and 6, 2022 – the first time the Supreme Court will hold the exams outside of Metro Manila.