Case Law on UNCITRAL Texts (CLOUT) A large database on cases under texts of UNCITRAL dealing with international investment business law. Records include a link to an abstract of the case, information regarding the relevant legislative text (with links), the national court in which the case was heard and a link provided if available online.
Advocacy Training Council (ATC) The ATC was established by the Council of the Inns of Court, and is the body responsible for overseeing standards of advocacy training for the Bar of England and Wales. Its website provides information on all aspects of advocacy training, including the Hampel Method, and access to practical, evidence-based guidance on vulnerable witnesses and defendants through the Advocate's Gateway.
This is a list of selected smart phone apps which are useful for legal practitioners. Please remember that this is a guide only – prices and features are subject to change, and none of these apps should be understood to replace official sources of information.
Although we know that the Inn had a small library prior to 1540, an early account about the Inns of Court states that Middle Temple ‘had a simple library in which were not many bookes besides the law and that library by meanes that it stood always open, and that the learners had not each a key unto it, it was at last robbed of all the bookes in it’!
The Library provides a range of guides to assist you with your legal research. The Library Guide & Introduction to Legal Research was co-written with Master David Woolley KC.
The guides are available as PDF files and can be downloaded below. You will require Adobe Reader, which is free to download.
The guides available to download are:
The Library produces a newsletter three times a year. The current issue (No. 22, September 2018) can be downloaded here, or to the right. You will require Adobe Reader.
Archived issues of the library’s newsletter can be downloaded to the right. Issues available are:
The Rare Book & Manuscript Collection contains over 9,000 early printed books and approximately 300 manuscripts. The collection reflects the educational and personal interests of barristers spanning the thirteenth to nineteenth centuries. The collection contains significant early legal texts as well as a wide range of non-legal subjects, including history, poetry, travel, medicine, theology and science.
There are over 9,000 early printed books in the Rare Book & Manuscript collection. Many of these books were present in the library when it was catalogued, first in manuscript form in 1684, and again in 1700 in the printed Bibliotheca Illustris Medii Templi Societis.
There are over 300 manuscript volumes at Middle Temple Library, the majority being case reports, statutes, and other related legal materials. The manuscripts have all been catalogued in the online catalogue.
Middle Temple Library is unique amongst the four Inns in that we still hold the majority of books that have been collected by the Inn since 1641. As the books have been read and used throughout the centuries, however, they have suffered wear and tear to such a degree that many of them are in urgent need of repair. The Book Sponsorship Programme was started in 2007 in order to help preserve these books for future generations.
