The National Unified Legal Profession Qualification Examination (hereinafter referred to as the "Legal Examination") is one of the necessary conditions for obtaining legal professional qualifications and engaging in the legal profession. The legal examination has the characteristics of high difficulty and high gold content, and is the "threshold" for the admission of legal professional qualifications. In recent years, cheating in legal examinations has occurred from time to time, seriously disrupting the order of examinations, undermining the fairness and impartiality of examinations, and affecting the social credibility of the legal profession.
Types of cheating on the law exam
The main types of cheating in the law exam are as follows:
Plagiarism, **: Candidates transcribe their answers on the answer sheet or have someone else take the test instead.
Use communication tools to cheat: Candidates use mobile phones, headphones and other communication tools to communicate with the outside world in the examination room, or use radio equipment to transmit answers to the outside world.
Use other cheat tools: Candidates use cheating tools such as electronic dictionaries and legal documents in the examination room.
Handling of cheating in the legal exam
According to the provisions of the Criminal Law of the People's Republic of China, anyone who organizes cheating in a state examination provided for by the state law shall be sentenced to fixed-term imprisonment of not more than three years or short-term detention and/or a fine;where the circumstances are serious, a sentence of between three and seven years imprisonment and a concurrent fine is to be given. Whoever uses other methods to cheat in a state examination provided for by the state shall be sentenced to up to 12 months imprisonment, short-term detention or controlled release, and/or a fine;where the circumstances are serious, a sentence of up to three years imprisonment or short-term detention is to be given, and a concurrent fine.
In addition to criminal liability, cheating in the legal exam will also be subject to corresponding administrative penalties. According to the provisions of the "Measures for the Implementation of the National Unified Legal Profession Qualification Examination", those who cheat in the examination shall have their examination results cancelled;where the circumstances are serious, a suspension of participation in the examination for 1 to 3 years may be given.
Strengthen the prevention of cheating in legal exams
In order to strengthen the prevention of cheating in legal examinations, the National Judicial Examination Office has taken the following measures:
Strengthen the management of the examination room, adopt a combination of "civil air defense, physical defense, and technical defense", closely monitor the situation inside and outside the examination room, and severely crack down on all kinds of violations of law and discipline and cheating.
Strengthen the education of candidates, increase candidates' awareness of the law and creditworthiness, and guide candidates to consciously abide by examination discipline.
Improve the examination system, establish and improve the investigation and punishment mechanism for examination violations of discipline and law, and ensure that the examination is fair and just.
It is hoped that by strengthening the prevention of cheating in the legal examination, we will create a clean and upright examination environment and maintain the fairness and justice of the examination.
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