Internal Review Policy
Credentials Committee
LRA Qualification Assessment
Articling Policies
- Policy on taking the Bar Admission Program prior to commencing articles
- Policy and procedure for application for termination of articles
- Policy and procedure for applications for extension of articles
- Policy and procedure for applications for leaves of absence from articling
- Policy and procedure for applications to commence articles on non-regular start date
- Policy on assignment of articles
- Policy on Criminal Record Checks
- Policy on part-time articles
- Policy on Principal’s applications
- Policy on waiver of five-year eligibility requirement to be Principal
- Policy regarding Articled Clerks’ character and fitness during articling period
- Policy regarding Principals charged/convicted under Part III of the Act, principals charged with criminal or other offence or principals involved in fitness to practice regime
- Policy relating to education and articling plans
Bar Admission Ceremony
Changing membership category to Practising Lawyer
- Policy on readmission following disbarment
- Policy on readmission following resignation
- Policy on reinstatement of former Judges as members of the Society (Regulation 5.4)
- Policy relating to change of membership category to practising lawyer (Regulation 5.6)
- Policy relating to education plans pursuant to Regulation 5.6.5 (Change Category)
Fitness to Practice Law
Recommended Law School Courses for Practicing in Nova Scotia
Transfers and Temporary Practice
- Policy on applications for admission pursuant to an academic call
- Policy on applications for transfer from a jurisdiction outside Canada
- Policy on applications for transfer from another Canadian jurisdiction
- Policy on Canadian Legal Advisors
- Policy on Criminal Record Checks
- Policy on education plans for transfer applicants
- Policy on Foreign Legal Consultants
- Policy relating to temporary practice by member of a reciprocating jurisdiction (Regulation 6.3)
- Policy relating to temporary practice in Nova Scotia by a lawyer from outside Canada (Regulation 6.4)
- Policy relating to the 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