Certificates of good character required.
Section 15
SEC. 15. Certificates of good character required. — Every applicant for admission as a member of the bar must produce before the Supreme Court satisfactory testimonials of good moral character, and must satisfactorily pass a proper examination upon all the codes of law and procedure in force in the Philippine Islands, and upon such other branches of legal learning as the Supreme Court by general rule shall provide. The Supreme Court by rule may require that applicants shall have regularly and attentively studied law for a fixed period before taking the examination, and may specify the kind of evidence necessary to establish the fact: Provided, nevertheless, That if the applicant has been admitted to practice law in the courts of the Philippine Islands, or in the courts of Spain, or any of its dependencies, during the period of the Spanish sovereignty in the Philippine Islands, he may be admitted to practice in the courts of these islands without further examination, except as in this section hereinafter provided, upon the production of his license and satisfactory evidence that such license has not been revoked, and that the applicant is of good moral character and professional standing; but the judges of the Supreme Court may, by general rules, provide that an applicant for admission under this proviso shall satisfactorily pass an examination upon the codes of law and procedure in force in these Islands.