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Location of Collections

Main floor mapMain Floor (2nd floor)

Collections & Bay Numbers

Entrance
Reference Books

Rooms A & B
Journals & Pamphlets 1-29

Room C*
EU Law 74-75 & 30-45
Dictionaries 45-48
Old (pre-1865) Law Reports 48-61
International Law 62-71
Human Rights 71-73

Room D
Law Reports & Digests 76-121

Atkin’s Court Forms 121

Encyclopaedia of Forms and Precedents 122

Rooms E* & F*
Commonwealth Law 123-197

Room G*
Scottish Law, Irish Law 198-213
Channel Islands Law 213-215
Manx Law 215

Room H
Textbooks 217-240
Legal Dictionaries show case

Room J
Legislation 242-267

Halsbury’s Statutes 251-252

Halsbury’s SIs 264

Halsbury’s Laws 265-266

* Floor sockets have been installed in these rooms to allow for the use of laptop computers. The window tables in Room D (where there are sockets in the skirting) may also be used. Wi-Fi is available throughout the Library.

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Room A
Local Acts 300-313

Constitutional Law 314-315

Jurisprudence 315

Room B
Legal Miscellany 327-328

Room SL
Medico-Legal 329-331

Legal History 331-335

Inns of Court 335-337

Legal Biography 337-340

Gallery South
Hansard 341-395

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Gallery North
Parliamentary Papers 442-476

Miscellaneous Legislation 476-482

Law Commission Reports 479-481

Times Corridor
Newspaper law reports

Privy Council Appeals

Times Room
The Times newspaper

Tunnel
Old Editions 396-435

Acquisitions Office
Crime & Criminology

Littleton Building

The bound volumes of The Times from 1811-1952 and 1984-May 1991, together with the Library’s non-law collections (heraldry, genealogy, biography, topography, history and literature) and older legal material are housed away from the Main Library in the basement of the Littleton Building. This material is accessible between 10.00 a.m. and 5.30 p.m.