Library

Library Supports for Lawyers

The Society’s Library supports all members – with a focus on practising lawyers and articled clerks – with the following:

• Identifying relevant materials to help answer an information need;
• Troubleshooting difficulties with online information sources;
• Determining if material in the Halifax Barristers’ Library is available for loan;
• Borrowing circulating materials;
• Accessing materials from another library through interlibrary loan;
• Carrying out a legislative history; and
• Obtaining a copy of a case, statute or article not directly available to the lawyer.

We do not perform in-depth research for lawyers. Contact us for a current list of researchers who provide legal research services.

Library Resources

These online resources licensed for lawyer use are available on the library user computers at the Barristers’ Library in Halifax, and the Simon J. Khattar Memorial Barristers’ Library in Sydney:

• Four divisions (I, II, IV & V) of O’Brien’s Encyclopedia of Forms in WestlawNext Canada
• Atlantic Canada Essentials, Criminal Law Essentials, Lexis Practice Advisor – Litigation, Lexis Practice Advisor – Family and Lexis Practice Advisor – Wills and Estates in LexisNexis Advance Quicklaw
• HeinOnline (U.S. and Canadian journals, U.S. primary law and case law links)