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Season's Greetings
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Your December newsletter is here to wish you a merry Christmas and a very happy New Year from all of us at Lincoln's Inn, and to make you aware of some events to look forward to in January - after a well-deserved break.
The Treasury Office will close at 3.00 pm on Friday 18 December and will re-open at 9.00 am on Monday 4 January 2016.
The MCR will also close at 3.00 pm on Friday 18 December and re-open at 10.30 am on Monday 4 January 2016.
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Library Opening Hours
The Library will close at 5.30 pm on Thursday 17 December for the staff Christmas party. On Monday 21 December the Library will close at 3.00 pm for the Christmas vacation.
We will re-open on Monday 4 January at 9.00 am.
For more information, including Christmas opening hours for all the Inn libraries, please click here.
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Did you know…?
The Library now has access to Practical Law, an online service from Thomson Reuters.
Practical Law has a team of 300 experts who create and maintain thousands of up-to-date know-how resources across all major practice areas. They can provide help with a standard document, provide how-to guidance on the law with a practice note, deliver legal updates or provide a sounding board on a tricky point through their “Ask” service.
Please ask at the enquiry desk if you have any questions.
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Document supply service – price increase
From the 1st of January 2016, the handling charge for document requests will increase from £5.00 to £6.00 for the first item requested and from £2.50 to £3.00 for each subsequent item requested at the same time.
The per page charge is to increase from 15p to 20p. The charges have not been reviewed since March 1998, and the Library Committee considered that a small increase should now be made.
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New Books
Click here for a list of some interesting recent acquisitions and a full list of new editions. Two examples can be found below.
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BARKER, Kit et al. (eds.) The law of misstatements: 50 years on from Hedley Byrne v Heller. Hart
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NELSON, John Voters’ limits: the evolution of London’s Parliamentary constituencies. Aldestrop Press
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21 January: Denning Society Annual Dinner and AGM
This key event for members of Lincoln's Inn Denning Society will be held on Thursday 21 January 2016 in the Great Hall of Lincoln's Inn. The Society is delighted to announce that Sir John Mummery has agreed to be their guest speaker this year. Members of the Society are welcome to bring up to three guests to the Dinner. The cost will be £78 per head.
This event is for Denning Society members (and their guests) only.
Read more
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31 January: A Service to commemorate John Donne (1572-1631) Preacher of Lincoln's Inn 1617-1621
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We are pleased to announce that the address for the 2016 John Donne Sermon will be held by the Reverend Canon Mark Oakley, Chancellor of St Paul's.
Mark was educated in London and Oxford and ordained at St Paul’s in 1993. He served his curacy at St John’s Wood (1993-6), before becoming Chaplain to the Bishop (1996-2000) and later Rector of St Paul’s, Covent Garden (2000-2005). He then became Archdeacon of Germany and Northern Europe. Mark returned to London and Grosvenor Chapel, Mayfair, in 2008 before moving to St Paul’s. He is also a Deputy Priest in Ordinary to HM The Queen (1996-). He is Visiting Lecturer in the Department of Theology and Religious Studies at King’s College, London.
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Archive of the Month: December 2015 - Spa Fields Riots
In the Treasurer's accounts for 1817, there is a very intriguing entry listing the sum of '£6 6s' under the heading 'incidents'.
The obvious questions then arise - what was this incident and what were the payments made for?
Further information in the Black Books shows that on 7 December 1816 the Inn decided in addition to the porters to permanently employ supernumerary watchmen who had previously only been employed on an ad hoc basis. It was specified that the duties of the supernumerary watchmen, in contrast to the porters, were exclusively to protect the Inn’s premises. The decision followed a payment - of £6 6s, the sum appearing in the roll - for extra duty the previous week, on Monday, 2 December. The significance of that date turns out to be...
READ MORE to find out
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