2010 Bar results out tomorrow

MANILA, Philippines -  The list of successful examinees in last year’s Bar examinations will be released tomorrow, the Supreme Court said yesterday.

Lawyer Ma. Victoria Gleoresty Guerra, acting chief of the Supreme Court public information office, said Chief Justice Renato Corona has called for a special full court session on Thursday morning “for the decoding of the 2010 Bar examinations results.”

In the session, the justices will also determine the passing percentage for the examinations.

Office of the Bar Confidant head Cristina Layusa said decoding “is the process where the [SC] orders the Office of the Bar Confidant to open the sealed envelops with the names of the candidates who passed the examinations.”

She said they could not tell yet what time the decoding would be completed and the names would be released at the SC building in Padre Faura St. in Manila.

“The decoding is always with the presence of the chair of the Bar exams,” she said.

“For this year, it was Justice Conchita Carpio-Morales. So Justice Morales will be with us during the decoding.”

The Bar examinations held during four Sundays of September last year were marred by a grenade blast that injured close to 50 people, mostly law students outside.

A total of 4,856 law graduates took the examinations at the De La Salle University on Taft Avenue in Manila.