2008 bar exam results out Friday afternoon - SC

MANILA, Philippines – The results of the 2008 Bar examinations conducted in September last year would be released on Friday afternoon, the Supreme Court said Wednesday. In a statement, Associate Justice Dante Tinga, chair of the 2008 Committee on Bar Examinations, said that the list of names would be displayed at the Supreme Court premises in Ermita, Manila. Supreme Court spokesperson Jose Midas Marquez said that the outcome of the tests would be out about 4:30 p.m. and would be flashed on wide screens at the SC front yard near the Padre Faura entrance. The Philippine Bar Examination is the national licensure exam for the admission to the practice of law. It is conducted during the four Sundays of September every year. According to the Office of the Bar Confidant, a record of 6,364 law graduates from 109 law schools took and finished the exams in 2008. - Sophia Dedace and Carlo Lorenzo, GMANews.TV