For a long time I have always felt that the CLP students have received unfair comments. This is even before the recent leak of the CLP questions and now the restoring the original marks of the papers. One of our judges even commented that the quality of overseas graduates is lacking, thus the high failure rate. Save for a few black sheep, I believe the majority or most of the CLP students are quality students equal to any local law graduates.

Had these students taken the English Bar Finals, their chances of passing would be greater. Why is it then harder to pass the CLP? The reason must be there is a quota for passes deliberately and unfairly set. Why? Is it to protect the demand of the local law graduates? I am quite sure if the local graduates were to sit for the CLP, only a minority would have passed.

The thought that the government could deliberately exercise a form of NEP discrimination on the intake of new lawyers is quite discouraging to any non-Malay law students. To be fair, let every law graduate, whether local or overseas take the CLP with examiners from the universities.