By: Antonio Hernandez

Judiciary employees and lawyers can serve as local Bar personnel in this year's Bar examinations to be held on the four Sundays of November.
In an advisory, the Supreme Court (SC), through the Office of the Bar Confidant (OBC), invited Judiciary employees and lawyers to apply as Bar personnel in the respective regions where they are presently serving.

"To ensure the success of the 2022 Bar Examinations, the Office of the Bar Confidant, together with Associate Justice Alfredo Benjamin Caguioa, the Bar Examination Chairperson, would like to invite Judiciary employees and lawyers working outside the Judiciary to participate in this year's Bar Examination as local Bar personnel," the OBC said.

As local Bar personnel, the OBC said they would be fielded as floor supervisors, head proctors, proctors and runners.

The OBC said Judiciary employees and lawyers who wanted to serve as local Bar personnel in the planned 14 testing centers nationwide must have all of the following qualifications:

1. incumbent judiciary employee, including those with permanent, coterminous, casual and contractual status or lawyer outside the judiciary.
2.fully vaccinated and have received at least one booster dose before October 15, 2022.
3. not teaching in any law school or law review center.
4. no relative by consanguinity or affinity within the fourth civil degree who will take the exam in the same
The deadline for application is on Aug.22, 2022.

The 2022 Bar examinations will be the second such examinations to be held digitally and locally.

The first was the 2020/2021 Bar exams held in February this year.

The SC implemented the set-up due to the restrictions imposed by the COVID-19 pandemic.