The Supreme Court (SC) needs judiciary employees and lawyers to act as local bar personnel and assist in the conduct of the 2022 online bar examinations to be held in November in 14 testing centers nationwide.
Needed are floor supervisors, head proctors, proctors, and runners in every testing center based on an announcement issued by Amor P. Entila, officer-in-charge of the SC’s Office of the Bar Confidant (OBC), with the approval of Associate Justice Alfredo Benjamin S. Caguioa, chairperson of the 2022 bar examinations committee.
The deadline for application is on August 22.
Qualified as local bar personnel are judiciary employees – including those with permanent, coterminous, casual, and contractual appointments – lawyers not working in the judiciary, fully vaccinated and have received at least one booster dose before October 15, 2022, not teaching in any law school or law review centers, have a LandBank account in one’s own name (for judiciary employees only), and have no relatives by consanguinity or affinity within the fourth civil degree who will take the exams in the same testing center where the personnel will serve.
Applications will be considered only from judiciary employees and lawyers who apply in the region where they are currently residing.
The OBC’s announcement stated: “… queries or concerns regarding Bar Personnel matters, you may contact the OBC at [email protected] or (0966) 319-1105. For ease of documentation and reference, kindly copy furnish [email protected] in all email communications.”
Earlier, the SC had extended to August 15 the July 15 deadline to file applications for the online and regionalized 2022 bar examinations.
Justice Caguioa said the extension was allowed after the SC was informed of “the variance in the academic calendars of the various law schools in the country.”
He said the SC was told that “some law schools will close their academic year later than others and later than the close of the original application period” (from June 13 to July 15).
“In order to give all interested law graduates ample time to prepare and submit their documentary requirements, while still ensuring that the different offices of the Supreme Court will have enough time to process and verify the adequacy of the applications to be received, the application period is hereby extended to August 15, 2022,” he also said in a Bar Bulletin.
The SC has yet to announce the dates of the 2022 bar examinations.