In Re Monaghan

The Court has been presented with the petition of a candidate for admission to bar who failed to achieve a passing grade in the examinations conducted by the board of bar examiners. He alleges that he has applied annually since 1959 to take the bar examinations and was permitted to do so in 1966 on order of this Court. See In re Monaghan, 126 Vt. 53, 222 A.2d 665.

The petition alleges he scored a grade of eight hundred fifty-two of a possible twelve hundred points. Nine hundred points were necessary to achieve admission.

The petitioner states he “has good reason to believe he was not…