Hours of Operation:
Monday to Friday, 9:00 am – 4:00 pm
Main Location:
Lois C. Davidson Law Library, 470 Water Street, Peterborough ON, K9H 3M3
Satellite Location:
Ontario Court of Justice, 70 Simcoe Street, ON K9H 7G9
(Contact library staff about services available at satellite locations.)
Staff:
Laura Dobbie – Law Librarian
Contact:
Phone: 705-742-9341
Toll Free: 1-866-556-8395
Fax: 705-742-6173
Email: library@peterboroughlaw .org
Website:
https://peterboroughlaw.org/
Who can access:
All Licensed Lawyers, Paralegals, Judges, Justice of the Peace, Articling Students, and Law Students
Circulation Policy:
Not open to members of the public. Members may sign out print material for two weeks. Some items are on reserve and can only be consulted in the library. Visiting counsel are welcome to use the collection in the library. The library participates in interlibrary loans with other county and district law libraries.
Collection:
E-LiRN suite of resources including QL, LN Practical Guidance, WL Criminal Source, WL Estates & Trusts Source, WL Family Source, vlex including Irwin Law’s Essentials in Canadian Law titles and Vincent AI – a reputable source of AI for lawyers.
In additon, the PLA provides access to the following electronic resources:
- Divorce Mate
- Hein Online
- LexisNexis Content
- LexisNexis Practical Guidance
- O’Brien’s Encyclopedia of Forms
- Quicklaw Advance
- VLex
- Westlaw Canada Next (Law Source, Family Source, Estates & Trusts Source and Criminal Source)
- WestLaw Practical Law (Corporate and Commercial Litigation, Employment, Real Estate modules)
Continuing Legal Education (CLE): LSO CPD group registration, and group discount, offered to PLA members.
Number of Computers for Lawyer use to search E-LIRN resources, etc: 6
Library Type: Area
Unique Collections:
The library has a number of books from the Library of Sir John Beverley Robinson, the first Chief Justice of Ontario. He was the brother of Peter Robinson who arranged for the Irish immigrant settlement of Peterborough and for whom the city is named. In 1899 Christopher Robinson, Q.C. gave the Peterborough Law Association a number of his father’s reports and textbooks, including complete sets of early Ontario law reports and statutes of Upper Canada from 1792. The library holds complete sets of bound statutes from that date to the present for both Canada and Ontario. Complete sets of early English reports, including both the Revised Reports and the English Reports, are also available.