Welcome

The Inner Temple is one of the four Inns of Court. The other Inns are Middle Temple, Gray's Inn and Lincoln's Inn. These are unincorporated associations which have existed since the 14th century. They play a central role in the recruitment, training and professional life of barristers, holding the exclusive rights to call candidates to the bar of England and Wales

The Library provides the following services to barrister, judicial and student members of all four Inns of Court:

A reference library of over 70,000 volumes of English law

Specialist Scottish & Commonwealth collections

An enquiry service for telephone, email & personal callers with legal and parliamentary enquiries

Web access to the library catalogues of the four Inns

A range of legal research databases

Word processing, email and wi-fi

A daily current awareness service

A document supply service for barrister members of the four Inns