History of the Philippine BAR Examination
Rogelio G. Balo Ph.D. The Origin of the BAR Examination *Of course, the term “BAR” is not an acronym. *When people go to court, there is a barrier between the general public and the court, judge, and magistrate as well as the tables for the litigants/parties and their attorneys positioned in front of the judge’s bench but within the area that is beyond *that* barrier or “ bar ” If you will. * Unless you are a party or a litigant in the case that is before the court at that particular time, a lay person cannot cross that barrier or “bar” that separates the judge/court/magistrate from everyone else. Hence, that is an area that is part of or across the “bar”. As a judge or properly licensed attorney, solicitor, barrister you are now officers of the court, who all had similar required criteria that got them “into the bar” and who have similar rules governing their conduct and anyone else who is a “member of the bar”. Thus, they are all allowed to ““pass through the bar” of...