Monday, April 05, 2004
3 Iloilo mediamen hurdle bar exams
THREE media practitioners in Iloilo are among the 1,108 new lawyers who passed the bar examinations conducted in September 2003.
They are Carol Salvatierra and Gerlie Uy of Iloilo Today and Leonel Dapat of Bombo Radyo.
Salvatierra and Uy, both 25, graduated from Central Philippine University College of Law last year while Dapat, 28, graduated from the same school in 2002.
"I was speechless when Gerlie (Uy) called me in my cellphone. I wanted to jump and shout but I could not because I was inside a passenger jeep," said Salvatierra, who finished Mass Communications magna cum laude at West Visayas State University in 1998.
"I was at home when our editor informed me that I passed the bar. My mother and father jumped for joy with me," said Uy, a classmate of Salvatierra and a cum laude at WVSU. They both majored in journalism before taking up Law.
Other passers from CPU, who are batchmates of Salvatierra and Uy, were Olice Palomata and Gracious Espinosa.
A total of 5,349 took the 2003 bar examinations with a passing percentage of about 20.17 percent.
This year's bar exams will be remembered as one of the most controversial in the history of the century-old examinations. The SC ruled to disregard the results in Mercantile Law due to a leakage involving three Manila-based law schools.
The results in Mercantile Law, covering the subjects Negotiable Instruments, Law, Credit Transactions, Transportation Law, Corporation Law, and Banking Law, were not counted.
Other subjects covered by Philippine Bar Exams are Political Law, Labor Law, Civil Law, Taxation, Remedial Law, Criminal Law, and Legal Ethics.
(April 5, 2004 issue)
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