The Council of Legal Education (CLE) has issued guidelines for the registration of the November 2025 Advocates Training Programme (ATP) examinations.
CLE in a statement on Thursday, July 24, said that the ATP examinations shall be administered within the Nairobi Region only.
The examinations will be conducted from Thursday, November 13, to Tuesday, November 25, 2025, both days inclusive.
According to the council, the registration will commence on Monday, August 4, 2025.
The deadline for registration for the November 2025 ATP examinations, on the other hand, shall be Monday, September 1, 2025.
CLE issues fresh guidelines for Advocates Training Program examinations
First-time candidates have also been encouraged to apply for the Bar Examination Loan, administered by the Higher Education Loans Board (HELB).
The deadline for the application for the Bar Examination Loan shall be Monday, August 25, 2025.
Deferrals by any registered candidate will commence on Monday, October 20 and close on Friday, October 31, 2025.
“No candidate shall be allowed to defer after the closing date,” said CLE.
Examination cards will be available on the candidate portal from Monday, November 3, to November 8, 2025.
All enquiries related to registration for examination should be channelled through: [email protected]. All candidates are advised to furnish their registration number in all their communications with the council.
Studies for the ATP commenced on February 10, 2025, after the Kenya School of Law (KSL) opened applications in August last year, with the deadline lapsing on October 31, 2024.
While announcing applications for the 25/26 ATP, KSL highlighted that interested applicants admitted into the Bachelor of Laws degree (LL.B) after December 2014 and those admitted before 2014 were eligible, provided they met the listed requirements.
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Applicants who are graduates of Kenyan universities or foreign universities and those who were admitted into the LL. B after December 8, 2014, were to have a have a mandatory mean grade of C (plus) in the Kenya Certificate of Secondary Examination (KCSE) or its equivalent.
Kenya School of Law requirements
They were also required to have attained a minimum of grade B (plain) in English Language or Kiswahili in their KCSE and ought to have passed in the mandatory 16 core subjects as stipulated in the Second Schedule of the Legal Education Act, 2012.
On the other hand, the applicants were required to be holders of or be eligible for conferment of an LL. B degree from a university recognized in Kenya.
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Applicants who are graduates of foreign universities were required to obtain clearance from the CLE and sit, pass the pre-bar examination as provided under the Second Schedule to the Kenya School of Law Act, part 1 (b) (iii).
Candidates who have attained a minimum of two (2) principals and one (1) subsidiary totaling to an aggregate of ten (10) points in the Kenya Advanced Certificate of Education (KACE) or its equivalent, were also eligible to apply
Before the commencement of the studies, KSL announced that students enrolled in the ATP for the 2025/2026 academic year would not receive student loans from HELB.
The school established a Legal Education Fund in 2021 to assist students undertaking the ATP pay their tuition fees which is administered by HELB on behalf of the school.
However, KSL Director Henry Mutai in a notice on January 14, announced that students taking the program this year would not receive the funds due to the current budgetary constraints experienced by the government.
The school explained that it was unable to set aside resources to replenish the Legal Education Fund in the 25/26 financial year.
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