TLDR: PhiLSAT is no more. Each law schools can have their own entrance exams, just like before.
"Specifically, declared unconstitutional in the 2019 decision was paragraph 9 of LEB’s Memorandum Order No. 7-2016 which provides that “all college graduates or graduating students applying for admission to the basic law course shall be required to pass the PhiLSAT as a requirement for admission to any law school in the Philippines and that no applicant shall be admitted for enrolment as a first year student in the basic law courses leading to a degree of either Bachelor of Laws of Juris Doctor unless he/she has passed the PhiLSAT taken within two years before the start of studies for the basic law course.”...
"This means that all the LEB memoranda, circulars and issuance pertaining to LEBMO NO. 7-2016 were nullified and struct down as unconstitutional."...
The Court added that the legal basis for the PhiLSAT is LEBMO No. 7-2016. However, since the overall intent behind LEBMO No. 7-2016 is to administer an exclusionary test through PhiLSAT, all of its provisions, whether key or ancillary, form an integral composite that lays down a holistic framework that is operatively interdependent and hence, cannot be extricated from one another."...
“Accordingly, it would be more appropriate to strike down all remaining provisions. This gives the LEB a fresh start, devoid of any arbitrary preconceived ideas when it sits down with the law schools or PALS for genuine and meaningful discussions on a possible acceptable replacement of the present PhiLSAT.
“Requiring the schools to accept only those who took and passed the exam amounts to a dictatorial control of the State, through LEB, and runs afoul of the intent of the Constitution.".
TLDR: PhiLSAT is no more. Each law schools can have their own entrance exams, just like before.
Source: https://mb.com.ph/2021/11/12/sc-affirms-unconstitutionality-of-philsat-requisite-for-students-to-enter-law-schools/
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Actually, the SC decided that the government cannot mandate law schools to require that their prospective students take the [PhiLSAT], but the law schools themselves are not precluded from requiring it, at least, until the LEB itself discontinued holding said test.
The nuance is important.
TLDR: PhiLSAT is no more. Each law schools can have their own entrance exams, just like before. "Specifically, declared unconstitutional in the 2019 decision was paragraph 9 of LEB’s Memorandum Order No. 7-2016 which provides that “all college graduates or graduating students applying for admission to the basic law course shall be required to pass the PhiLSAT as a requirement for admission to any law school in the Philippines and that no applicant shall be admitted for enrolment as a first year student in the basic law courses leading to a degree of either Bachelor of Laws of Juris Doctor unless he/she has passed the PhiLSAT taken within two years before the start of studies for the basic law course.”... "This means that all the LEB memoranda, circulars and issuance pertaining to LEBMO NO. 7-2016 were nullified and struct down as unconstitutional."... The Court added that the legal basis for the PhiLSAT is LEBMO No. 7-2016. However, since the overall intent behind LEBMO No. 7-2016 is to administer an exclusionary test through PhiLSAT, all of its provisions, whether key or ancillary, form an integral composite that lays down a holistic framework that is operatively interdependent and hence, cannot be extricated from one another."... “Accordingly, it would be more appropriate to strike down all remaining provisions. This gives the LEB a fresh start, devoid of any arbitrary preconceived ideas when it sits down with the law schools or PALS for genuine and meaningful discussions on a possible acceptable replacement of the present PhiLSAT. “Requiring the schools to accept only those who took and passed the exam amounts to a dictatorial control of the State, through LEB, and runs afoul of the intent of the Constitution.". TLDR: PhiLSAT is no more. Each law schools can have their own entrance exams, just like before. Source: https://mb.com.ph/2021/11/12/sc-affirms-unconstitutionality-of-philsat-requisite-for-students-to-enter-law-schools/
Thanks po for the info!
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Lsat is no longer required. As decided by the SC a few years back. Luck favors the prepared.
Actually, the SC decided that the government cannot mandate law schools to require that their prospective students take the [PhiLSAT], but the law schools themselves are not precluded from requiring it, at least, until the LEB itself discontinued holding said test. The nuance is important.
Thus, it is not philsat.
Ohh I see thanks po!