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== The Library (former Supreme Court) ==
[[File:JosephHoweProvinceHouseNovaScotia.png|thumb|left|[[Libel trial of Joseph Howe]], Supreme Court (Base of Joseph Howe Statue, Court Yard)]]
The Legislative Library, located on the second floor between the Red Chamber and Legislative Assembly, was originally the home of the [[Supreme Court of Nova Scotia]], until the court outgrew the space. The first important trial in the court was for [[Richard John Uniacke, Jr.]]'s killing [[William Bowie (merchant)]] in a the last lethal duel in Nova Scotia (1819).<ref>https://books.google.ca/books?id=SvdGAQAAMAAJ&pg=RA1-PA190&lpg=RA1-PA190&dq=Bowie+%26+DeBlois++halifax&source=bl&ots=nW8S88e_CC&sig=bLiazE3mlZBrLe54sWuE0gT-iug&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjPjaH10Y3UAhWCLSYKHbvlB0MQ6AEIPjAE#v=onepage&q=Bowie%20%26%20DeBlois%20%20halifax&f=false</ref>
The Supreme Court chamber was the site of [[Libel trial of Joseph Howe|Joseph Howe's 1835 trial for seditious libel]].<ref>Nova Scotia House of Assembly, "Province House". Nova Scotia House of Assembly, 1997</ref> On 2 March 1835, newspaper editor [[Joseph Howe]] [[Libel trial of Joseph Howe|defended himself at trail]] in the present-day library for [[seditious libel]] by civic politicians in Nova Scotia. Many scholars consider Howe's success in this case a landmark event in the evolution of press freedom in Canada.<ref>Kesterton, pp. 21–23.</ref>
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