Stone's Justices' Manual is a book published by LexisNexis Butterworths. It is "the standard work on summary procedure".Card, Richard (editor). Card, Cross and Jones: Criminal Law. Twelfth Edition. Butterworths. 1992. . ¶3.13. It displaced Burn's Justices of the Peace as the standard work on that subject from 1850 onwards.David Bentley. English Criminal Justice in the Nineteenth Century. The Hambledon Press. Continuum International Publishing Group. 1998. . Page 23, note 17. Digitized copy from Google Books. By 1914, it was old, well-established and formidably large.Alexander, G Glover. The Administration of Justice in Criminal Matters: (In England and Wales). Cambridge University Press. 1915. Reissued 1919. Reprinted 2010. . Pages v and 215. Digitized copy from Google Books.
Stone's Justices' Manual is published in June of every year, with an updating supplement published in October. An accompanying CD-ROM contains the full text plus additional resources such as the All England Law Reports.
Stone's Justices' Manual covers civil procedure, criminal law and litigation and provides comprehensive coverage of all new and amended legislation affecting the magistrates' courts. It also includes hundreds of new cases that set precedents or clarify particular principles of law.
Editions Edition Date Editor 1 to 17 1842 to 1874 Samuel StoneClerk to the Justices for the borough of Leicester: Charles Grevile Prideaux. A practical guide to the duties of churchwardens. 12th Ed. Shaw and Sons. London. 1871. p 2. "Distinguished"; town clerk of leicester for thirty years; author of other legal works; died on 5 February 1874 at the age of seventy years: "Necrological Table" in British Almanac, 1875, vol 48, p 282 (Table is for deaths from November 1873 to November 1874: p 287) Google Books: . Born 1804: "Stone's justices' manual" in New Serial Titles, Library of Congress, 1997, vol 2, p 2236 Google Books. 18 to 33 1875 to 1901 G B Kennett 34 to 53 1902 to 1921 J R Roberts 54 to 70 1922 to 1938 F B Dingle 71 to 73 1939 to 1941 F B Dingle and E J Hayward 74 to 78 1942 to 1946 E J Hayward 79 to 83 1947 to 1951 J Whiteside 84 to 100 1952 to 1968 J Whiteside and J P Wilson 101 to 105 1969 to 1973 Peter Duncan Fanner and Cecil Thomas Latham 106 to 109 1974 to 1977 Cecil Thomas Latham and John Richman 110 to 125 1978 to 1993 John Richman and A T Draycott 126 1994 A T Draycott and Stuart Baker 127 to 133 1995 to 2001 A T Draycott and A P Carr 134 to 143 2002 to 2015 A P Carr and Adrian J Turner
See also List of main criminal law texts in England and Wales
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