During the Coronavirus crisis access to resources is restricted. We will be publishing a series of subject guides outlining electronic resources to which the Library currently has access. They will include key textbooks, law reports, journals and free web sources.

The first subject guide we have put together is for Criminal Law and can be found here.

The Library will not be dealing with enquiries over Easter (from Friday 10 to Monday 13 April).

The Library continues to offer a limited but free document delivery service from 9.00 a.m. – 5.00 p.m. on weekdays for the barristers of all four Inns and is collaborating with the other Inns where there might be opportunities to access different databases. Details can be found on the Library website. The Current Awareness Blog continues to be produced on a daily basis and the Library is curating relevant online content for those with an interest in law including TV programmes and films and law-related podcasts (Lockdown Law Pods).

We are now subscribing to the Lexis®PSL service, which we have been trialling for some time. This provides practice notes, forms, precedents, commentary and current awareness for 35 practice areas. These include Arbitration, Banking & Finance, Commercial, Competition, Construction, Corporate, Corporate Crime, Dispute Resolution, Employment, Energy, Environment, Family, Financial Services, Immigration, In-House, Information Law, Insurance & Reinsurance, Intellectual Property & Information Technology, Life Sciences, Local Government, Pensions, Personal Injury, Planning, Practice Compliance, Practice Management, Private Client, Property, Property Disputes, Public Law, Restructuring & Insolvency, Risk and Compliance, Share Incentives, Tax, TMT, and Wills and Probate.

The service is available within the Library and we also have a limited number of log-ins which will allow us to make the service available by remote access to Inner Temple members who are practising barristers. Priority will be given to barristers outside London who are unable to visit the Library in person.

Please email LexisPSL@innertemple.org.uk if you are interested in accessing this service remotely.

For International Women’s Day this year, we took a look at women who have killed in response to domestic abuse and their experience in the criminal justice system. On the other side of the bench: https://www.innertemplelibrary.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/on-the-other-side-of-the-bench.pdf

An alternative version of the Library Annual Review has been produced, in infographic format.

The Library’s Annual Review of activities for 2019 is now available.