LexisPSL is now available at the Inner Temple Library on a trial basis until 31 December 2018.

LexisPSL is an online current awareness and practical guidance service. The content is written by a team of in-house lawyers in partnership with contributors from leading chambers and firms. It includes concise practice notes, forms, precedents, authoritative commentary and current awareness. The resource also includes calculators, flowcharts and a comprehensive news service.

The Practice Areas included in the service are:

Arbitration	Financial Services	Practice Management
Banking & Finance	Immigration	Private Client
Commercial	In-House	Property
Competition	Information Law	Property Disputes
Construction	Insurance & Reinsurance	Public Law
Corporate	Intellectual Property & Information Technology	Restructuring & Insolvency
Corporate Crime	Life Sciences	Risk and Compliance
Dispute Resolution	Local Government	Share Incentives
Employment	Pensions	Tax
Energy	Personal Injury	TMT
Environment	Planning	Wills and Probate
Family	Practice Compliance

LexisNexis staff will be coming in to the Inner Temple to provide training for users throughout the year.

Kathryn Strachan from Lexis will be available in the Library on Thursday 8 February 2018 from 10am to 1pm to answer questions on the service.

Two Royal letters from the Library’s Petyt manuscript collection, Jane the Quene and Edward VI’s Devise for the Succession, were featured in the recent BBC4 series England’s Forgotten Queen: the Life and Death of Lady Jane Grey.

The series, which was presented by the historian Helen Castor, is now available on BBC iPlayer.

A list of New Titles and New Editions received by the Library between October and December 2017 has just been published.

Barristers may use the Law Society Library on Thursday 21 December from 2pm – 5pm and Friday 22 December 9am – 3pm, and from Tuesday 2 January 9am – 5pm to Wednesday 3 January 9am – 5pm. Please contact them before visiting on 020 7320 5946.

On Monday 8 January 2018 the Library is running a training session on the essentials of legal research for new pupils.

The session takes place in the Inner Temple Drawing Room at 5.45 p.m. for a 6 p.m. start. It will finish around 7.30 p.m.

Those wishing to attend can register for a place by emailing trainingsessions@innertemple.org.uk

The Library will close for Christmas at 2.00 p.m. on Thursday 21 December and reopen at 9.00 a.m. on Thursday 4 January 2018. This calendar gives the opening hours of all four Inn Libraries over the Christmas vacation.

A list of New Titles and New Editions received by the Library between July and September 2017 has just been published.

We are sure that members of the Inns who have benefited from their legal research skills and comprehensive knowledge of the collections would wish to join us in congratulating two members of the library team, Michael Frost and Simon Hindley, on completing 30 years of service with the Inn.

A number of design review meetings  as well as meetings on temporary accommodation have taken place with heads of departments, the architects and consultants. Pre-application discussions on arrangements for temporary accommodation in the Garden and car park are taking place with the City planners.   A further debate about Project Pegasus will take place at a future Bench Table meeting at which time Benchers will have full details of the project and a comprehensive cost analysis. There will be a further ballot after this discussion.