Fonds - Public Law Society of Newfoundland Project Daisy fonds

The Law Society of Newfoundland was formed on 12 June 1834, under the "act to incorporate a law society in Newfoundland and regulate the admission of barristers and attorneys to practice in the law in the several courts of the Island". For many years after its establishment the Society was responsible for the standards of legal training for students and for rules governing the practice of barristers and solicitors. Currently the Newfoundland Law Society governs the profesional activities of all barristers, solicitors, magistrates and judges practising in the Province. Its membership encompasses also individuals who have retired from the legal profession.

In 1992, a committee was formed to undertake an oral history project that would include interviews with senior members of the Society for the purposes of gathering information about their professional activities and reminiscences over the course of their careers in the legal profession in Newfoundland and Labrador. The project was named after the coastal boat Daisy that was used to transport court officials around the Province in the 1940s and 50s. Dr. Chris English made an arrangement with MUNFLA whereby recording equipment was loaned to the Newfoundland Law Society for the purposes of conducting the interviews. Audio cassettes were provided by MUNFLA and an agreement to furnish transcriptions typed by MUNFLA staff was made. In 2000, after MUNFLA lost the services of one of its transcribers, the terms of the agreement could no longer be fulfilled. Twenty-five transcripts were completed. [Status of project not yet known]