Professional Autonomy and the Public Interest

Formed in 1825, the Nova Scotia Barristers'' Society is the second-oldest law society in common-law Canada, after the Law Society of Ontario. Yet despite its founders'' ambitions, it did not become the regulator of the legal profession in Nova Scotia for nearly seventy-five years. In this institutional history of the Nova Scotia Barristers'' Society from its inception to the Legal Profession Act o...