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Moldova Advocate Qualification Exam study plan

Moldova Advocate Qualification Exam · Give each week a clear focus.

8 weeks · About 7 hours per week

Week 1

Civil law (persons, property, obligations, contracts, succession) & Constitutional law and the Moldovan legal order

  • Map the Civil Code structure (persons, property, obligations, contracts, succession) and build a one-page outline linking each book to the exam weight

  • Reconstruct the hierarchy of sources in the Moldovan legal order and explain how constitutional norms prevail over ordinary legislation

  • Solve 40 civil-law scenario questions on persons and property, logging every error with the governing article

  • Draft a comparison table of the three acquisition modes of property rights (contract, succession, usucapion) with their conditions

Your checkpoint

A personal civil-law outline plus an error log of at least 40 solved questions, each annotated with the applicable norm

Week 2

Civil law (persons, property, obligations, contracts, succession) & Legal profession statute, ethics and professional discipline

  • Apply the rules on obligations and contract formation (offer, acceptance, cause, capacity) to 30 fact patterns

  • Distinguish nullity regimes and their consequences, and verify each conclusion against the Civil Code

  • Read the statute on the legal profession and extract the duties owed to clients, courts and colleagues

  • Identify the disciplinary offences and sanctions applicable to advocates and match each to its procedural stage

Your checkpoint

A two-column comparative sheet: contract nullity versus disciplinary liability, with 10 worked examples per column

Week 3

Criminal law & Criminal procedure

  • Build a table of the elements of each offence category in the Criminal Code, separating objective from subjective elements

  • Analyse the general part: guilt forms, attempt, complicity, and the grounds excluding criminal liability

  • Trace the criminal procedure from notification of suspicion through prosecution and trial, noting each actor's competence

  • Solve 50 mixed criminal law and procedure questions and reclassify every mistake by cause

Your checkpoint

An offence-elements table covering at least 15 offence categories plus a 50-question error analysis

Week 4

Criminal law & Criminal procedure & Legal profession statute, ethics and professional discipline

  • Apply evidentiary rules and procedural guarantees to hypothetical procedural defects and state the remedy for each

  • Resolve ethics scenarios involving conflicts of interest, confidentiality and fees using the statute and disciplinary practice

  • Explain the advocate's role in criminal proceedings and the limits of the defence mandate

  • Complete one timed 60-question mock covering criminal law, criminal procedure and ethics

Your checkpoint

A timed mock exam result with a written diagnosis identifying the three weakest sub-topics and a corrective plan

Week 5

Civil procedure & Administrative law and administrative procedure

  • Map civil procedure by stage: jurisdiction, filing, evidence, judgment, appeal and enforcement

  • Draft a model statement of claim and a model appeal identifying every mandatory element

  • Distinguish administrative acts from administrative contracts and state the conditions for contesting each

  • Outline the administrative procedure stages and the grounds for annulment of an administrative act

Your checkpoint

Two drafted procedural documents (claim and appeal) plus an administrative-act annulment checklist

Week 6

Commercial law and business regulation & Labour law and social security law

  • Classify business entities and compare their formation, governance and liability rules

  • Summarise insolvency proceedings and the ranking of creditors' claims

  • Apply the Labour Code to hiring, modification, suspension and termination of the employment contract

  • Link social security entitlements to the triggering contingencies and the contribution conditions

Your checkpoint

A comparative entity chart plus a labour-termination decision tree with at least 8 branches

Week 7

Family law & Constitutional law and the Moldovan legal order & Civil procedure

  • Apply family law rules to marriage, matrimonial property regimes, divorce, filiation and parental authority

  • Revisit constitutional review mechanisms and the place of international treaties in the domestic order

  • Rehearse civil procedure questions on jurisdiction and remedies that were missed in week 5

  • Solve 40 mixed questions across family law, constitutional law and civil procedure

Your checkpoint

A consolidated revision sheet of family-law rules and a 40-question mixed set with corrected answers

Week 8

Legal profession statute, ethics and professional discipline & Criminal law & Civil law (persons, property, obligations, contracts, succession)

  • Consolidate ethics and professional discipline rules into a one-page decision aid for scenario questions

  • Re-drill the highest-error items from every prior error log until each is answered correctly twice

  • Complete two full timed simulations under exam conditions and review every answer

  • Rank all ten domains by residual risk and allocate the final hours to the top three

Your checkpoint

Two completed full simulations with scores, a ranked residual-risk list and a final one-page synthesis per domain

Milestones

Week 2: Can state the conditions and effects of contract nullity and name the disciplinary sanctions for advocates without consulting notes

Week 4: Scores at least 60% on the timed criminal law, procedure and ethics mock, with errors classified by cause

Week 6: Produces a correct termination analysis for a labour scenario and a correct creditor-ranking for an insolvency scenario

Week 8: Scores at least 75% on both full simulations and has cleared every item in the cumulative error log