Certificate of Legal Practice Information - The Basic Things

In order for Bachelor in Law and commerce (BLC) to be eligible for Certificate of Legal Practise (CLP), it need to fulfill the joint degree status. A degree where two or more distinct and different disciplines are studied together or combined into one degree is regarded as a joint degree. These are not recognised for the CLP EXCEPT where the duration is for 5 years or more AND a minimum of 12 substantive law subjects (including the six core) are studied. The core law subject are:-

1. Law of Contract
2. Law of Torts
3. Constitutional Law
4. Criminal Law
5. Land Law
6. Equity and Trusts

All of the 12 substantive law subject including the 6 core subject have been included in BLC syllabus. However, the requirement of time period or duration of 5 years are not fulfilled. Nevertheless, i believe that Prof Darbi and Mr Mahinder have work on this problem to enable the graduate of BLC to be entitled to sit for CLP examination. Any further information will be updated later.

The CLP examination tested the student on 5 course subject:-

1. general paper which will be divided into 2; torts and contract
2. criminal procedure
3. civil procedure
4. professional practice
5. evidence

These 5 compulsory papers need to be pass by the students in one sitting. If he fails more than one subject, he will have to retake all five subjects in July or August the following year unless the candidate has failed badly, (a total of less than 100 marks for the 5 subjects) in which case the candidate will be barred from the next sitting. However if the candidates fails only one paper, he only has to re-sit that paper on a date specified by the Board. Students who successfully complete the examination will be entitled to use the designatory letters CLP. The fees would be:-

RM 3,000 for registration fee

RM1,000 for examination fee

Hope that this basic info will help you in better understanding of the CLP exam. Each course subject information will be put in the next post

Information was derived from http://www.clp4u.info/ website.