THE SUPREME Court (SC) has issued a temporary restraining order on the implementation of the Philippine Law School Admission Test (PhiLSAT), the nationwide law school admission exam administered by the Legal Education Board (LEB). In a notice dated March 12, the SC allowed students who were not able to take the PhiLSAT and who did not pass the exam to “conditionally enroll” in law schools. “Those who have not taken the PhiLSAT prior to the beginning of the Academic Year 2018 to 2019, or who have taken the PhiLSAT but did not pass, or are honor graduates in college with no PhiLSAT Exemption Certificate, or honor graduates with expired PhiLSAT Exemption Certificates may now be allowed to conditionally enroll as incoming freshmen law students under the same terms as LEB Memorandum Order No. 11, series of 2017,” the SC said. Prior to the first PhiLSAT on April 16, 2017, retired Makati City Regional Trial Court Judge Oscar B. Pimentel, along with several others including lawyers and aspiring law students, assailed the validity of the PhiLSAT with a petition filed on April 7. A second petition was filed in Nov. 2018. The SC held an oral argument last March 5 for the petitions. — Vann Marlo M. Villegas

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