Inner Temple Library | |
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Location | Inner Temple London, EC4, England |
Type | Private |
Scope | Law |
Established | c. Henry VII era; original building in existence by 1506 |
Collection | |
Size | Over 70,000 volumes[1] of English law |
Access and use | |
Access requirements | Written application to the Librarian, to use material not available elsewhere |
Population served | Barristers, judges, and student members of the Inns of Court |
Other information | |
Director | Robert Hodgson (Librarian and Keeper of Manuscripts) |
Website | innertemplelibrary.org.uk |
The Inner Temple Library is a private law library in London, England, serving barristers, judges, and students on the Bar Professional Training Course. Its parent body is the Honourable Society of the Inner Temple, one of the four Inns of Court.
Its law collections cover the legal systems of the British Isles (England and Wales, Scotland, Northern Ireland, the Republic of Ireland, the Channel Islands and the Isle of Man) and also Commonwealth countries. There are, in addition, extensive non-law collections covering such subjects as history, topography, biography and heraldry, and an important collection of legal and historical manuscripts.