Re: Application of A.M.

Hernandez July 27, 1993

FACTS: Hernandez is a Filipino citizen who have a degree of Juris Doctor from Columbia Law School in New York and passed the
bar examinations in the same City in 1990. He is currently taking bar subjects in Ateneo Law School and taking a 5 month bar
review course there. He now asks the court to allow him to take the bar exam in the Phils.

ISSUE: WON the S.C. may allow him to take the bar exam in the Phils.

RULING: Yes, he may be allowed to take the bar because there were some instances in the past where a Filipino studied law in a
foreign law school and were allowed to take the bar in the Philippines. However, the court held this time that in the following year,
applicants for the Bar must study in a local law school in the Phils. And must present certifications required by Section 5 and 6 of
Rule 138 to be able to take the bar. Such certification however is not issued to foreign law school graduates therefore anyone who
wants to take the bar in the country should study in any of the law schools in the Phils. to be able to take the bar exam.