Review updates week 14, 15 and 16

LECTURE UPDATES

Weeks 14 and 15 is the review week for one of the most hated subjects in the Bar exams, Taxation. Fortunately we have very good tax lecturers. The lecture started off with Prof. Antonio Bonilla who lectured on income Taxation. This was followed by Prof. Eric Recalde who discussed Real property, custom and local taxes. The last tax lecturer was given by Prof. Rizalina Lumbera who lectured on Tax fundamentals and jurisprudence. On Sunday, July 12, we had our last mock bar which was of course on Taxation law.

Week 16 started off with our second to the last subject, Labor laws. Prof. J. Oswald Lorenzo was not able to lecture on Labor relations due to scheduling conflicts. Instead, Prof. Cecilio Duka, associate dean of San Sebastian college took over Labor relations. Prof. Duka will be returning next week (Week 17) to finish the Labor law lectures.

CHANGES IN LECTURE SCHEDULE FOR WEEK 17

Prof. Quilala and Prof. Duka has exchanged schedules, so please take note of the changes in lecture schedule for week 17:

July 25 – Saturday – Prof. Cecilio Duka will continue his Labor law lectures (Standards, Special labor laws and jurisprudence) after which he will finish the rest of the day with a lecture on Public International laws

July 26 – Sunday – Prof. Ryan Quilala will be lecturing the whole day on Election laws, Administrative laws and Public Corporations.

HANDOUTS UPDATES

We have just distributed the handouts of Prof. Lumbera (Tax jurisprudence) Prof. Recalde (Real property and local taxes) and Prof. Duka (Labor Relations)

We will soon be distributing additional notes from Prof. Recalde, (Tarriff and customs) and the Taxation mock bar suggested answers.

MOCK BAR AND COACHING UPDATES

We apologize for the delay as we have just received the suggested answer just this week. Since it will take about a week or more for the coaches to check all papers, all coaches will do their best to have the coaching session for the tax mock bar on August 1, 2009 unless otherwise announced. Anyway, we still have until August 9 to complete all coaching sessions.

The following are the coaching assignments for the Taxation mock bar:

Coach: Atty. Zigfred Diaz

Alvear, Humilita V.

Borines, Nicomedes R.

Buenafe, Roy L.

Cabrido, Jorge Christian

Cabuguas, Artemio G.

Dayanan, Noli

De La Victoria, Bimbo Y.

Enolpe, Reynaldo

Fuentes, Eric A.

Gahi, Paul C.

Girard, Claudita M.

Villacastin, Dandel Rose P.

Coach: Atty. Alrey Ouano

Acosta, Blynne N.

Aguhayon, Ghenee Rose C.

Arpon, Gregorio D. Jr.

Avenido, Marciano R.

Busa, Mercy Apple Grace

Cuartero, Floritz

Diongzon, Lucky Beil B.

Escolar, Ahmad Clay C.

Flores, Divina M.

Gaviola, Bryan O.

Lepiten, John Glenn M.

Pacayra, Marina P.

Rosales, Gina G.

Coach: Atty. Anabelle Pulvera

Alatraca, Joram Allen S.

Aniñon, Margarito V.

Arcamo, Arna Aura T.

Auxilio, Gerardo Q. Jr.

Beronque, Al Lucero

Chan, Mike Jay-aar Kwan

Gitalan, Fernan N.

Handayan, Edwin L.

Limpot, Marcelina C.

Restauro, Gail S.

Rodriguez, Richard M.

Rosales, Angelito

Vilo, Jessie Aguinaldo C.

Yatan, Leonilo Y.

Note: If you have taken the mock bar but your name is not listed, please inform Alvin as this might have been a typo error.

MISCELLANOUS

Prof. Riguera's book still available

We still have 7 copies left of Prof. Riguera’s Remedial law book. Please approach Alvin if you wish to obtain your copy for only P 675.00

History of Jurists Bar Review Center Cebu

If you want to know the history of Jurists Bar Review Center Cebu, you might want to check out the post entitled “What’s with the tree”

Want to have a neater more legible handwriting ? Check this out

One of our reviewees, Jurista Paul Gahi was kind enough to share with us a short power point presentation on how to achieve a neater and more legible handwriting. If you hand writing problems, you might want to look at this, as we believe it will really help. We have already forwarded it to your emails.

Coverage of the 2009 bar exams

Some reviewees has also requested a copy of the coverage of the 2009 bar exams, we have also sent it to your email address.

Want to know where to focus your review ? You'll be surprised that only 20 % of the all the laws we have studied are asked in the bar !

When we did some coaching, a problem mentioned by some reviewees was the difficulty on knowing where to focus. We were surprised that there are still those of you who do not know about the Lex Pareto Notes.

The Lex Pareto notes is one of the best statistical, bar problem-based, codal-based reviewer. It helps you focus on what is the most probable questions that will be asked on the bar exams basing on statistical data of previous bar exam questions. It is a highly recommended pre-week reviewer.

Copies are available at all National Bookstores nationwide. As of last checking, all volumes are available in National bookstore Ayala Cebu while only volumes 1 and 4 are available at SM national bookstore. To date the Lex Pareto Notes has sold more than 5,000 copies nationwide. For more information check out www.lexparetonotes.blogspot.com

Final location of the 2009 bar exams

It's finally confirmed, based on the guideline released recently by your bar exams chairman, Justice Antonio Nachura, the venue is still at De la Salle University at Taft Avenue Manila.

REMINDER TO THOSE WHO STILL HAVE UNPAID BALANCES

We would like to remind all those who have promised to settle their unpaid balances to please settle your account as soon as possible.

43 days more to go before the bar exams! Aim high Juristas !