On May 6, we were told by one of our readers that the law graduates of Malaysia Multimedia University (MMU) is now exempted from the Certificate of Legal Practise (CLP) Exam. In fact, the reader came to know about this from a student’s blog .

After doing some preliminary verification, we immediately posted a thread at eLawyer Facebook announcing this ”gospel”. To our surprise, in less than 2 days we received a total of 22 comments on the thread which consist of mixture feedback (some welcome, some disappointed, some happy about it and some were upset comments).

On 14 May, based on a reliable unofficial source, MMU have in fact received the exemption letter from the Legal Profession Qualifying Board few weeks ago. They have communicated this information to the existing students. However, till today there is yet any official announcement on this matter. We believe this is due to the fact that such exemption is only effective and valid after the same have been gazetted per Section 3 of the Legal Profession Act, like what happen in UUM case. 

We were further told that such exemption will be reviewed by the Legal Profession Qualifying Board every 2 years.

Currently there are few hundreds law students studying in the Law School of MMU, which is located at Malacca. MMU (owned by the largest telco - TM Malaysia Berhad), the 1st government-approved private university started its 1st campus at Cyberjaya which focused in providing IT related courses in 1996.

The 1st batch of (about 39) law students graduated in 2008 from MMU.

In view of such exemption and limited admission in the law schools of local public universities, we believe there will be even more students enrolling for the law course in MMU.

Below are the admission requirement (reproduce from MMU website):

For Bachelor of Laws (Honours), the minimum qualification is as follows:
STPM with at least 3 Cs AND a minimum of 5 Credits for the subjects taken at SPM inclusive of English; OR

Related diploma from a recognized institution by Senate AND a minimum of 5 Credits for the subjects taken at SPM inclusive of English; OR

Any other qualification equivalent to (a) or (b) and approved by the Senate.

For candidates to be qualified and be called to the Bar, candidates MUST have credits in Bahasa Malaysia at SPM examination or they should have been exempted  from the Bahasa Malaysia Qualifying Examination conducted by the Legal Profession Qualifying Board.

If this is true, it will mark an unprecedent milestone in Malaysia legal education history, whereby MMU will be the 1st private university in Malaysia obtaining exemption of CLP exam for its law graduates.

Would this mean that ATC College or Brickfields Asia College which have a longer history in providing law programme will be exempted too if one day they are upgradeted to private univeristy status and decided to offer 4 years law course?  what about those law schools who have obtained college university status, e.g. Taylor College University?

http://www.elawyer.com.my/blog/malaysia-mu...-from-clp-exam/

sounds racist but true. no sugar coating. the gov just wanna churn out more malay lawyers, as usual, giving them the easiest way. i hope i'm a malay.

I don't see why a private university cant be provided such an exemption provided that the quality is up to par. FYI, MMU does have a lot of good debaters.