A.

The Law Pertaining to the State and Its Relationship with Its Citizens (18 Questions)

1. Constitutional Law (11 Questions)

a. Basic principles of political law (e.g. separation of powers, sovereignty,
judicial review, fundamental powers of the State, i.e. police power,
eminent domain, and taxation)
b. Bill of Rights (due process, equal protection, freedom of expression,
rights during expropriation, searches and seizures)
c. Composition and powers of the government organs
d. Judicial Review
e. Supervision of courts
f. Powers of the Supreme Court
g. Qualifications, disqualification, and selection of the president, senators,
member of the House of Representatives, justice and judges, the
ombudsman, and constitutional commissioners
h. Immunity of the president, privileges of senators and members of the
House of Representatives
i. Structure of government (composition, functions, powers and privileges,
separation of powers, and system of checks and balances)
j. Process of legislation
k. Natural resources (nationalization principle for natural resources and
economic activities)
l. Amendment and revision of the Constitution
2. International Law (1 Question)
a. Sources of international law
b. Relationship with domestic law
3. Labor Law (3 Questions)
a. Basic principles
b. Existence of Employer-Employee Relationship; tests
c. Termination of employment
d. Requirements for valid labor-only contracting
e. Rights of employees and of labor organizations; membership in unions
f. Management prerogative
g. Illegal recruitment of overseas Filipino workers
h. Remedies (labor standard violations)
4. Taxation Law (3 Questions)
a. Basic principles of taxation in the Constitution
b. Income Tax
c. Value Added Tax
d. Donor’s Tax
e. Remedies (jurisdiction of courts, prescription, remedies against
assessment notices)

B. Criminal Law (15 Questions)

 1. Basic priniciples (e.g. territoriality, actus reux, mens rea)
2. Justifying, exempting, mitigating, aggravating, and alternate circumstances
3. Application of the Indeterminate Sentence Law
4. Service of Sentence
5. Effects of death of the accused
6. Crimes against persons
7. Crimes against property
8. Crimes against liberty
9. Crimes against public interest
10. Republic Act No. 9262 (Anti-Violence Against Women and their Children Act of 2004)
11. Republic Act No. 7610 (Special Protection of Children Against Abuse, Exploitation, and
Discrimination Act)
12. Republic Act No. 11313 (Safe Spaces Act)
13. Republic Act No. 10173 (Data Privacy Act of 2012)

C. The Law Pertaining to Private Personal and Commercial Relations (18 Questions)
1. Civil Law (12 Questions)
a. Legal personality, capacity to act
b. Marital relationships
c. Property (concept of property, ownership, co-ownership, right of accession,
easement, nuisance)
d. Obligations
e. Contracts (in general, loans and mortgages, interest)
f. Torts, Quasi Delicts
g. Damages
2. Commercial Law (6 Questions)
a. Corporation (kinds of corporations, including corporations sole; composition of /
membership in the board of directors, powers, duties and prerogatives of boards
of directors and stockholders; and articles of incorporation and by laws)
b. Intra-corporate dispute (concept)
c. Intellectual property (copyright, including fair use principle and moral rights)
d. Insurance (what can be insured, claims for life insurance)
e. Republic Act No. 10173 (Data Privacy ACt of 2012)

D. Procedure and Professional Ethics (18 Questions)

1. Remedial Law (12 Questions)
a. Civil Procedure
b. Criminal Procedure
c. Appeal (Rules 41, 45)
d. Original Cases (Rule 46)
e. Small Claims
f. Evidence
g. Special Civil Actions (expropriation, certiorari, prohibition, mandamus, quo
warranto)
 h. Special proceedings (habeas corpus, habeas data, writ of amparo, Rules of
Procedure for Environmental Cases)
2. Ethics (4 Questions)
a. Qualifications for new lawyers (includes those who reacquire citizenship)
b. Code of Professional Responsibility (including duties incorporated in the
Lawyer’s Oath)
c. Disqualifications/inhibition for judges
d. Direct and indirect contempt
3. Practical Exercises (2 Questions)
a. Parts of conveyancing, affidavits
b. Parts of pleadings, motions