From 2002 to 20 17, the national judicial examination era, referred to as "examination era", was officially called "national judicial examination", referred to as "judicial examination" and "exam-oriented examination", requiring lawyers, judges, prosecutors and notaries to pass the examination.
From 20 18, the era of national unified legal professional qualification examination, referred to as "legal examination era", was officially called "national unified legal professional qualification examination", referred to as "legal professional qualification examination" or "legal examination". Newly-appointed judges, newly-appointed prosecutors, persons who apply for practicing as lawyers, notaries and legal arbitrators for the first time, and civil servants of administrative organs who are engaged in administrative punishment decisions, administrative reconsideration, administrative rulings and legal consultant review for the first time shall pass the national unified legal professional qualification examination and obtain legal professional qualifications.
Examination subjects and examination forms
Examination subjects in the examination era are: examination paper 1, examination paper 2, examination paper 3 and examination paper 4; One, two and three volumes adopt objective multiple-choice questions, and four volumes adopt subjective questions. The score of each test paper is 150, and the total score of four volumes is 600. The duration of each exam is 180 minutes.
The exam is closed and written. Test paper 1, test paper 2 and test paper 3 are machine-readable multiple-choice questions, and test paper 4 is written case analysis, legal documents and discussion questions. The theme of each volume is:
Test paper 1: Comprehensive knowledge. Including: Socialism with Chinese characteristics's theory of rule of law, jurisprudence, legal history, constitution, economic law, international law, private international law, international economic law, judicial system and legal professional ethics;
Examination Paper 2: Criminal and Administrative Legal System. Including: criminal law, criminal procedure law, administrative law and administrative procedure law;
Examination paper 3: Civil and commercial legal system. Including: civil law, commercial law, civil procedure law (including arbitration system);
Test paper 4: case analysis, legal documents and discussion. Including Socialism with Chinese characteristics's theory of rule of law, jurisprudence, constitution, judicial system and legal professional ethics, administrative law and administrative procedure law, criminal law, criminal procedure law, civil law, commercial law and civil procedure law.
The examination subjects in the French examination era are: objective volume I, objective volume II and subjective questions.
Objective testing is a closed-book and computerized test. Test questions, answering requirements and answering interface are all displayed on the computer display screen. Candidates should use the computer mouse or keyboard to answer directly on the computer answering interface.
The objective test consists of two parts. Each test paper has 100 questions, and the score is 150 points, including 50 single-choice questions, each with 1 point, 50 multiple-choice questions, each with 2 points, and the total score of the two test papers is 300 points. Specific examination subjects are:
Test paper 1: rule of law, jurisprudence, constitution, Chinese legal history, international law, judicial system and legal professional ethics, criminal law, criminal procedure law, administrative law and administrative procedure law.
Test Paper 2: Civil Law, Intellectual Property Law, Commercial Law, Economic Law, Environmental Resources Law, Labor and Social Security Law, Private International Law, International Economic Law and Civil Procedure Law (including arbitration system).
The examination time of subjective test paper is 240 minutes.
The subjective examination is a volume, and the computerized examination is implemented. Including case analysis questions, legal documents questions, essay questions and other questions, the score is 180. Specific examination subjects are:
Thought of rule of law, jurisprudence, constitutional law, criminal law, criminal procedure law, civil law, commercial law, civil procedure law (including arbitration system), administrative law and administrative procedure law, judicial system and legal professional ethics.
If the subjective question is selected as the question type in the exam, the examinee can choose one of them to answer.
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