The Board allows degree holders from selected universities in the United Kingdom, Australia, and New Zealand to sit for the examination.
[6] To be called to bar, CLP graduates, like other prospective lawyers, must also undertake a nine-month pupillage under a pupil master who has practiced in Malaysia for at least seven years.
The Certificate in Legal Practice was originally designed in 1984 only as a temporary stop-gap measure to assist those Malaysians who were not able to sit for the English Bar Finals Examinations.
[7] It was then a solution to those who can't apply to be a Barrister but ended up as another recognised legal qualification to be an advocate and solicitor in Malaysia.
The CLP board noted in an article published in The Star in 2008: "The examination is not a test of memory function by the candidates.
"[8] The Professional Practice paper, for example, covers Land Law, Probate and Administration of Estates, Bankruptcy and Winding Up, Ethics of the Legal Profession, and Advocacy.