The Inner Temple Library has created subject guides on various legal topics that the Library specialises in.
The guides cover electronic resources to which the Library has access and include key textbooks, law reports, journals and free web sources. Some of the online resources listed are available to the Library on a temporary basis during the current Coronavirus crisis.
The Library will supply scans, subject to the provisions of the law of copyright (the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988 and the Copyright and Rights in Performances (Research, Education, Libraries and Archives) Regulations 2014), to barrister members of all four Inns.
See the document supply service page for more information.
Enquiries may be made by email: distanceservice@innertemple.org.uk
Please note that the Inner Temple Library has temporary access to asterisked titles.
Textbooks
1KBW on Trusts in Matrimonial Finance Proceedings
via Bloomsbury Professional Online
Advocacy in Family Proceedings: Theory and Practice, 2nd ed. / by David Bedingfield
via Lexis Library *
Barlow’s Cohabitants and the Law, 4th ed
via Bloomsbury Professional Online
Butterworths Family Law Service
via Lexis Library
Butterworths Wills Probate and Administration Service
via Lexis Library
Challenging and Defending Local Authority Child Care Decisions: A Practical Guide / by Elizabeth Isaacs QC, L Meyer, Carmel Shepherd and Jeremy Weston
via Lexis Library *
Child Abduction within the European Union / by Katarina Trimmings
via Bloomsbury Professional Online
Child Case Management Practice, 3rd ed. / editor in chief, Ernest Ryder
via Lexis Library *
Child Protection and the Family Court – What You Need to Know / by Rt Hon Sir Andrew McFarlane, Madeleine Reardon and Alexander Laing
via Bloomsbury Professional Online
Child Protection Proceedings: Care and Adoption Orders / by Simon Johnson
via Lexis Library *
Children Act 1989: Local Authority Support for Children and Families, 2nd ed. / by Sally Gore
via Lexis Library *
Children Act Private Law Proceedings: A Handbook / by John Mitchell
via Lexis Library *
Children’s Views and Evidence / by David Burrows
via Bloomsbury Professional Online
A Child’s Journey Through Contemporary Issues in Child Protection / by Gary Norton and Rhiannon Davies
via Lexis Library
Clarke Hall & Morrison on Children
via Lexis Library
Cohabitation: Law, Practice and Precedents, 7th ed. / by Helen Wood … [et al.]
via Lexis Library *
Compromise in Family Law: Law and Practice / by Michael Horton
via Lexis Library *
Costs in Family Proceedings, 2nd ed. / by Francis Wilkinson and Dr Sara Hunton
via Bloomsbury Professional Online
Court of Protection Practice, 13th ed. / by Nathaniel Arthur Heywood
via Lexis Library *
Domestic Abuse: Law & Practice, 7th ed. / by Roger Bird
via Lexis Library
Duckworth’s Matrimonial Property and Finance
via Bloomsbury Professional Online
Emergency Remedies in the Family Court, 3rd ed. / Nigel Fricker, general editor
via Lexis Library *
Evidence in Family Proceedings / by David Burrows
via Lexis Library *
The Family Court Practice (The Red Book), 27th ed. / editor in chief, Lord Wilson of Culworth ; general editor, Anthony Cleary
via Lexis Library *
Family Finance in Practice 2011 / by Claire Wills-Goldingham, Louise Spitz and Stephen Wildblood QC
via Lexis Library
Family Justice Reformed: A Guide to the Family Court since the Children and Families Act 2014, 2nd ed. / by Sarah Blackmore
via Lexis Library *
Family Law Advocacy: How Barristers help the Victims of Family Failure / by Mavis Maclean and John Eekelaar
via Bloomsbury Professional Online
Family Mediation, 3rd ed. / by Lisa Parkinson
via Lexis Library *
Financial Abuse of Older Clients: Law, Practice and Prevention / by Ann Stanyer
via Bloomsbury Professional Online
Financial Remedies Practice, 8th ed. / by Sir Peter Singer, Mr Justice Mostyn, Lewis Marks QC, Gavin Smith and Joshua Viney
via Bloomsbury Professional Online
Foster’s Inheritance Tax
via Lexis Library
Hershman and McFarlane: Children Law and Practice
via Bloomsbury Professional Online
The International Family Law Practice, 5th ed. / by David Hodson
via Lexis Library *
International Movement of Children: Law, Practice and Procedure, 2nd ed. / by Nigel V. Lowe
via Lexis Library *
International Surrogacy Arrangements: Legal Regulation at the International Level / by Katarina Trimmings and Paul Beaumont
via Bloomsbury Professional Online
International Survey of Family Law (Archive) 2017
via Lexis Library *
International Trust and Divorce Litigation, 3rd ed. / by Mark Harper and Dawn Goodman
via Lexis Library *
Jackson’s Matrimonial Finance, 10th ed.
via Lexis Library
The Law and Ethics of Dementia / by Charles Foster, Jonathan Herring and Israel Doron
via Bloomsbury Professional Online
Lawyers’ Costs and Fees: Fees and Fixed Costs in Family Proceedings / by A K Biggs
via Bloomsbury Professional Online
Maintenance Matters: The Guide to Periodical Payments upon Divorce and Dissolution of Civil Partnership / by Andrew Commins
via Lexis Library *
Marital Agreements and Private Autonomy in Comparative Perspective / by Jens Scherpe
via Bloomsbury Professional Online
Mediating International Child Abduction Cases: The Hague Convention / by Sarah Vigers
via Bloomsbury Professional Online
New Law Guide to the Family Procedure Rules / by Mark Anderson
via Lexis Library
Pensions on Divorce Practitioners Handbook, 3rd ed. / by Fiona Hay
via Lexis Library
A Practical Guide to Family Proceedings: Blomfield and Brooks, 6th ed.
via Bloomsbury Professional Online
A Practitioner’s Guide to the Court of Protection, 4th ed. / by Martin Terrell, Caroline Bielanska, Justin Holmes and Richard Frimston
via Bloomsbury Professional Online
Privilege, Privacy and Confidentiality in Family Proceedings / by David Burrows
via Bloomsbury Professional Online
Public Children Law: Contemporary Issues / by Alexander Laing and Dr Bianca Jackson
via Bloomsbury Professional Online
Rayden & Jackson on Relationship Breakdown, Finances and Children
via Lexis Library
Relocation: A Practical Guide, 2nd ed. / by Rob George … [et al.]
via Lexis Library *
Responsible Parents and Parental Responsibility / by Rebecca Probert, Stephen Gilmore and Jonathan Herring
via Bloomsbury Professional Online
Same Sex Marriage and Civil Partnerships: The New Law / by Mark Harper, S Chelvan, Martin Downs, Katharine Landells and Gerald Wilson
via Lexis Library *
Surrogacy: Law, Practice and Policy in England and Wales / by Ruth Cabeza … [et al.]
via Lexis Library
Tolley’s Social Security and State Benefit
via Lexis Library
Transparency in the Family Courts: Publicity and Privacy in Practice / by Julie Doughty, Lucy Reed and Paul Magrath
via Bloomsbury Professional Online
Unlocking Matrimonial Assets on Divorce, 3rd ed. / by Simon Sugar and Andrzej Bojarski
via Lexis Library *
Urgent Applications in the Court of Protection, 2nd ed. / by Nazreen Pearce and Sue Jackson
via Lexis Library *
Vulnerable Witnesses within Family and Criminal Proceedings: Protections, Safeguards and Sanctions / by Frank Feehan and Caroline Harris
via Bloomsbury Professional Online
White, Carr and Lowe: The Children Act in Practice
via Lexis Library
Youth Court Guide, 6th ed. / by Pakeeza Rahman and Tony Rendell
via Bloomsbury Professional Online
Law Reports
Family Court Reports
via Bloomsbury Professional Online (PDF facsimile available)
Family Law Reports
via Lexis Library (PDF facsimile available)
Family Law Reports (Scotland)
via Westlaw
ICLR: Probate/ Family
via Lexis Library and Westlaw (PDF facsimile available)
ICLR: Scotch & Divorce Appeal
via Lexis Library and Westlaw (PDF facsimile available)
Journals
Bloomsbury Family Law Briefing
via Bloomsbury Professional Online
Child and Family Law Quarterly
via Lexis Library *
Family and Child Law Bulletin (Archive to 2015)
via Lexis Library
Family Law
via Lexis Library
Family Law Bulletin
via Westlaw
International Family Law Journal
via Lexis Library *
Journal of Social Security Law
via Westlaw
Know-how Databases
Lexis PSL: Family Law module
Practical Law: Family Law module
Free Resources
Our gateway site, AccessToLaw, includes a list of free legal resources for Family Law
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