At least P1 million a year for two years will be granted to qualified law schools in their clinical legal education program by the Governance in Justice Programme , a European Union-assisted project in the Philippines.
In 2019, the SC adopted the Revised Law Student Practice Rule which provides that a law student must be certified to be able to engage in the limited practice of law. Chief Justice Alexander G. Gesmundo lauded as “historic” the RMLC and CLEP website’s launch as he expressed optimism that the country’s law students will now be practice-ready with the introduction of a modernized legal education that is “primarily student- and society-centered.”
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