The professional practice document includes, for example, land law, estate administration, bankruptcy and liquidation, ethics of the legal profession and advocacy. Anyone familiar with legal education would understand that land law is one of the heaviest subjects. The Certificate in Legal Practice was originally developed in 1984 as a temporary stopgap to assist Malaysians who were unable to sit the English Bar exams. [7] It was then a solution for those who could not apply as a lawyer, but ended up becoming another recognised legal qualification to be a lawyer and lawyer in Malaysia. The CLP Board of Directors noted, inter alia, in an article published in The Star on 24 September 2008 and in its CLP Subject Guide 2008 for candidates, that “the examination is not a test of memory function by candidates. It is the mediocre candidates who resort to ruminating information they have memorized,” resulting in low annual success rates. [8] The audit is extremely rigorous as it has a very low success rate of 10% to 20% per year. This is due to the extremely high standard set by the CLP Committee to ensure that only the best candidates qualify and practice as lawyers. The Legal Profession Qualification Council of Malaysia (LPQB) has decided to postpone one of the tasks (criminal procedure law) of the next examination for the Certificate of Legal Practice (CLP) from 02.04.2021 (Friday) to 05.04.2021 (Monday). The reason given was that the Muslim candidates want to perform their Friday prayers (Solat Fardhu Jumaat) and that the time initially scheduled (10:30 a.m. to 1:45 p.m.) is within the prayer time. The least the LPQB can do for this unfortunate lot is to give them the one-day break they deserve, as has always been given for previous sessions.
The Law Society Committee only determines the exam and does not offer courses to prepare the candidate for the exam. Teaching was first led by the Faculty of Law of the University of Malaysia and later by the Faculty of Law of the Universiti Teknologi MARA, but the task was later delegated only to private universities. Three of the leading institutions providing education for CLP in Kuala Lumpur are Brickfields Asia College [1], Advance Tertiary College (formerly Kemayan ATC) and HELP University. TAC also offers the course at its Penang campus. Exams are usually held in July of each year. Each student must complete five specialized assignments, namely General Paper, Professional Practice, Evidence, Criminal Procedure and Civil Procedure Law. The student must pass all the papers to obtain the certificate. If a student fails a job, he or she may receive a conditional passport and be allowed to repeat this material twice more. However, if a student has failed two or more assignments, they will have to retake the entire exam to receive the certificate.
Each student is allowed to take the exam four times. To top it off, all of these problems could have been avoided if LPQB had been more careful when planning the schedule. If they had been more careful, such a collision would not have occurred. Now, candidates are punished and disadvantaged for negligence on the part of the LPQB. And this group of candidates is the same group that had to pay increased exam fees, who had postponed their exam twice because the LPQB was not willing to introduce an online exam that had to waste 7 months of their lives waiting for the exam, which came at the expense of their career development. The Certificate in Legal Practice (CLP) is a 9-month postgraduate course and exam taken by overseas law graduates and graduates of Bachelor of Jurisprudence (Hons)/B.Juris (Hons) from the University of Malaya[1] and Bachelor of Legal Studies (Hons)/BLS (Hons) from Universiti Teknologi MARA[2] to become a qualified lawyer in Malaysia. [3] [4] Like all law graduates, CLP graduates are required to read in the offices of a master student who has been working in Malaysia for at least 7 years. After nine (9) months of training, the student may eventually be admitted to the bar and become a qualified lawyer. The examination is conducted by the Legal Professions Qualification Board of Malaysia and is governed by the Legal Profession Act, 1976.
The council allows graduates of shortlisted universities in the UK, Australia and New Zealand to take the exam. [5] The Commission also allows for the exemption of pre-qualified university graduates. [6] Melaka Multimedia University is the 1st private university in Malaysia to receive a CLP exam waiver for its law graduates. We therefore ask the LPQB to reconsider and revoke this decision. On 15 April 2019, the Legal Professions Qualification Council added the Legal Profession Act 1976, the Contracts Act 1950, the Specific Remedial Measures Act 1950, the Civil Law Act 1956 and the Insolvency and Rules Act 1967 to the list of permitted laws. Candidates can now bring the following statuses for the respective papers:[9] – However, candidates are still denied access to many relevant laws (Acts of Parliament) during exams, such as.dem Companies Act 2016, Winding-up Rules 1997, Succession and Administration Act 1959, The Legal Profession (Practice and Etiquette) Rules 1978, the Legal Profession Rules (Advertising), and many others. With the postponement, candidates essentially have to prepare and memorize the material for 2 papers (criminal proceedings and evidence) in 4 days, rather than distributing the time more or less evenly between the two papers. Essentially, you need to go into the exam room with material for topic A, finish, go home, immediately unload your thoughts from this material and reload them with material for topic B: 2 documents, 2 days, back to back. However, there is another document (Testimonials) the next day: 06/04/2021 (Tuesday). For years, if not decades, candidates have had at least a day apart between each individual job, which is extremely important because there are literally tons of materials, legal requirements, and jurisprudence that candidates must remember (i.e. memorize) for each job. After each job, this daily gap allows candidates to at least rest, clear their heads and fill in the necessary information for the next job.
In 2007, Khalid Yusoff, then director of the CLP, was sentenced to three months in prison for forgery and fraud in the CLP “Master List” exam in July 2001. [10] He was released by the Court of Appeal in May 2010. [11].