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Daniel de
Guzman, B.M. No. 1722, April 24, 2009
On 22 September 2003, the day following the bar examination in
Mercantile Law, Justice Jose C. Vitug, Chairman of the 2003 Bar
Examinations
Committee, was apprised of a rumored leakage in the examination on
the subject.
With this, the court decided to nullify mercantile law examination and
hold another examination in place of this.
However, petitions were filed because of the emotional, physical and
financial burden to the barristers. The petitions were granted and the
court decided to just spread the percentage of the mercantile law
exam to the remaining 7 bar subjects.
The court appointed 3 retired justices into a Committee to investigate
the leakage issue. The Investigating Committee was tasked to
determine and identify the source of leakage, the parties responsible
therefor or who might have benefited therefrom, recommend sanctions
against all those found to have been responsible for, or who would
have benefited from, the incident in question and to recommend
measures to the Court to safeguard the integrity of the bar
examinations.
Cecilia Carbajosa, a bar examinee found the leakage when she
obtained a copy of the leaked questions and found that they were very
similar to the questions in the bar exam. Upon meeting with the
investigators, she provided a xerox of the leaked questions. The copy
was delivered to Justice Vitug, he found that 82% from examiner Atty.
Balgos was included in the leakage. He also received reports that Atty.
Danilo de Guzman was the source of the leakage, as he faxed the
questions to his fraternity brother, Ronan Gravida four days before the
bar exams.
Atty. Balgos, 71 years old, does not know how to use computer except
to type. His secretary Cheryl Palma formatted the test, printed it and
was also the keeper the Balgos computer password. Balgos didnt