Service fees

Self-serve photocopying and printing

  • $0.40 per copy
  • Members may purchase photocopying cards for $20.00 (50 copies) or $40.00 (100 copies), plus a $2.00 deposit fee per card.

Custom photocopying and printing

  •  Cases – $10.00 per case
  •  Statutes/regulations – $10.00 per statute/regulation, using official sources where available
  •  Articles – $10.00 per article
  •  Other – $10.00 per item

Legislative history

  • Nova Scotia statutes: post-R.S.N.S. 1989 to date – $20.00 per statute, using official sources
  • Nova Scotia statutes: pre-R.S.N.S. 1989 to date – $30.00 per statute, using official sources
  • Other statutes – $30.00 per statute, using official sources where available
  • Regulations – $30.00 per regulation, using official sources where available

Judicial consideration/noting-up

  • Cases – $20.00 per case, using three sources
  • Statutes/regulations – $20.00 per statute/regulation, using three sources where available

Words & phrases searches

  • $20.00 per word/phrase, using three sources

Books by courier

  • Members outside the Halifax Regional Municipality may contact the Barristers' Library to borrow circulating books. Books are sent out the same day, whenever possible. The Barristers' Library incurs the cost of sending books by courier to members, while members bear the cost of returning books.

Interlibrary loans

  • $20.00 per article or book, plus the costs imposed by the lending library, including its courier costs

Faxing services

  • Members can use the Barristers' Library's fax machine to send material anywhere within Halifax at a cost of $1.00 per page, anywhere within Nova Scotia at a cost of $2.00 per page, or anywhere else in Canada at a cost of $3.00 per page. Members can have material faxed to them at the Barristers' Library at a cost of $1.00 per page.

Overdue/lost books

  • Members who do not return overdue material after three reminders are invoiced for the cost of the material, plus a $25.00 service fee. Members who return overdue material after receipt of an invoice are still accountable for the $25.00 service fee.

Effective: May 1, 2012

Please note all photocopying and printing is subject to copyright and electronic licensing provisions.