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Solicitors Journal
Categories Legal periodical
First issue1856;167 years ago (1856)
Website www.solicitorsjournal.com
ISSN 0038-1047

Solicitors Journal is a legal periodical published in the United Kingdom.

Contents

It was established in 1856. [1] It was published weekly until September 2017, when it ceased publication, and has been published monthly since January 2019, when it resumed publication. [2]

It is a general [3] law journal. [4] It was a newspaper [5] and was registered as a newspaper. [6] From January 2019, it is a glossy magazine. [2]

Publishers

The original publisher was the Law Newspaper Company Limited. [7]

The journal was formerly published by Longman Group UK Ltd. [8] Longman Law, Tax and Finance then became FT Law & Tax, [9] a subsidiary of Financial Times Professional Ltd [10] and part of Pearson Professional Limited, [11] and the journal was published by FT Law & Tax. [12] FT Law & Tax became part of the Sweet & Maxwell Group in 1998. [13] The journal was bought from Sweet & Maxwell in November 2002 or in 2003 by Wilmington plc [14] [15] who published it until September 2017. [16] It has been published by International In-house Counsel Journal Limited [2] a company with a registered office in Cambridge and a principal trading address in King's Lynn, [17] since January 2019. [2]

The journal formerly had its headquarters in London. [1]

Editors

Editors included William Shaen, [18] [19] Alexander Edward Miller, [20] William Mitchell Fawcett (from 1872 to 1912), [21] John Mason Lightwood (from 1912 to 1925), [22] David Hughes Parry [23] (from 1925 to 1928), [24] John Robert Perceval-Maxwell (from 1928 to 1929), [25] Thomas Cunliffe (from 1929 to 1948), [26] John Passmore Widgery (from 1948 to 1955), [27] Philip Asterley Jones (from 1956 to 1968), [28] Neville David Vandyk (from 1 April 1968 to 1988), [29] [30] Julian Harris [31] and Marie Staunton [32] (from 1990 [33] to 1997) [34]

Law reports and citation

The Solicitors Journal publishes law reports. For the purposes of citation, its name may be abbreviated to "SJ" [35] or "Sol Jo", [36] while "Solicitors' Journal and Reporter" may be abbreviated to "Sol J & R". [37]

History

The Solicitors Journal replaced the Legal Observer and Solicitors Journal, also known as the Legal Observer (1830–1856). [38] [39] [40] [41] The Weekly Reporter (1853–1906) merged into the Solicitors Journal. [42] [43] The Weekly Reporter's common law editor from 1862 to 1866 was Standish Grove Grady. [44]

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