Internal Review Policy
Credentials Committee
LRA Qualification Assessment
Articling Policies
- Taking the Bar Admission Program prior to commencing articles
- Application for termination of articles
- Applications for extension of articles
- Applications for leaves of absence from articling
- Applications to commence articles on non-regular start date
- Assignment of articles
- Criminal Record Checks
- Part-time articles
- Principal’s applications
- Waiver of five-year eligibility requirement to be Principal
- Articled Clerks’ character and fitness during articling period
- Principals charged/convicted under Part III of the Act, Principals charged with criminal or other offence or principals involved in fitness to practice regime
- Education and articling plans
Bar Admission Ceremony
Changing membership category to Practising Lawyer
Fitness to Practice Law
Recommended Law School Courses for Practicing in Nova Scotia
Transfers and Temporary Practice Policies
- Applications for admission pursuant to an academic call
- Applications for transfer from a jurisdiction outside Canada
- Applications for transfer from another Canadian jurisdiction
- Canadian Legal Advisors
- Criminal Record Checks
- Education plans for transfer applicants
- Foreign Legal Consultants
- Temporary practice by member of a reciprocating jurisdiction (Regulation 6.3)
- Temporary practice in Nova Scotia by a lawyer from outside Canada (Regulation 6.4)
- Issuing of permits pursuant to Regulation 6.3.4
General
Forms for the Courts in Nova Scotia can be found on the Courts website at www.courts.ns.ca
Forms for Service Nova Scotia can be found on the Government of Nova Scotia website at www.gov.ns.ca/sns