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 – Commercial and General, II – Corporations, IV – Leases & V – Wills and Trusts) of O’Brien’s Encyclopedia of Forms in WestlawNext Canada
• Halsbury’s Laws of Canada legal encyclopedia, the Pleadings, Motions & Facta filings gallery, as well as a wealth of commentary such as journals, law reviews and premium texts & treatises.  Key areas of practice covered include Criminal Law, Family Law, Wills & Estates Law and Civil Litigation in LexisNexis Advanced Quicklaw
• LexisNexis Practical Guidance provides authoritative, step-by-step guidance in managing matters and completing tasks efficiently while avoiding potential pitfalls through tools such as checklists, practice notes, precedents with drafting notes, alternative clauses and current awareness legislation trackers and articles.  Key areas of practice include Real Estate, Corporate, Commercial, Employment, Family, Wills & Estates, and Litigation.
• HeinOnline (U.S. and Canadian journals, U.S. primary law and case law links)