''Solicitors Journal'' is a legal periodical published in the United Kingdom. It was established in 1856. It was published weekly until September 2017, when it ceased publication, and has been published monthly since January 2019, when it resumed publication. It is a general law journal. It was a newspaper and was registered as a newspaper. From January 2019, it is a glossy magazine.

Publishers

The original publisher was the Law Newspaper Company Limited. The journal was formerly published by Longman Group UK Ltd. Longman Law, Tax and Finance then became FT Law & Tax, a subsidiary of Financial Times Professional Ltd and part of Pearson Professional Limited, and the journal was published by FT Law & Tax. FT Law & Tax became part of the

Sweet & Maxwell Sweet & Maxwell is a British publisher specialising in legal publications. It joined the Associated Book Publishers in 1969; ABP was purchased by the International Thomson Organization in 1987, and is now part of Thomson Reuters. Its British ...

Group in 1998. The journal was bought from Sweet & Maxwell in November 2002 or in 2003 by Wilmington plc who published it until September 2017. It has been published by International In-house Counsel Journal Limited"Back from the dead"
in "Obiter", The Law Society Gazette, 22 October 2018 a company with a registered office in Cambridge and a principal trading address in

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, since January 2019. The journal formerly had its headquarters in London.

Editors

Editors included William Shaen, Alexander Edward Miller, William Mitchell Fawcett (from 1872 to 1912), John Mason Lightwood (from 1912 to 1925), David Hughes Parry (from 1925 to 1928), John Robert Perceval-Maxwell (from 1928 to 1929), Thomas Cunliffe (from 1929 to 1948), John Passmore Widgery (from 1948 to 1955), Philip Asterley Jones (from 1956 to 1968), Neville David Vandyk (from 1 April 1968 to 1988), Julian Harris and Marie Staunton (from 1990 to 1997)

Law reports and citation

The Solicitors Journal publishes

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s. For the purposes of

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, its name may be abbreviated to "SJ" or "Sol Jo", while "Solicitors' Journal and Reporter" may be abbreviated to "Sol J & R".

History

The Solicitors Journal replaced the ''Legal Observer and Solicitors Journal'', also known as the ''Legal Observer'' (1830–1856). The ''Weekly Reporter'' (1853–1906) merged into the Solicitors Journal. The Weekly Reporter's common law editor from 1862 to 1866 was Standish Grove Grady."Obituary" (1892
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Solicitors Journal 154 (2 January). As to Grady, see Boase, "Grady, Standish Grove", Modern English Biography
vol 5 (1912 supplement)
Men of the Time
11th Ed
487, 9th Ed
473
8th Ed
430
Men at the Bar 184; Walford, County Families, 1860
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References

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A sad farewell to Solicitors' Journal
Incorporated Council of Law Reporting. 26 September 2017.
Solicitors Journal goes under after 160 years
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. 19 September 2017.
So farewell then, SJ
The Law Society Gazette, 15 September 2017 *"Centenary of The Solicitors' Journal" (1957) 107 The Law Journal 7

*Laurel Brake and Marysa Demoor. Dictionary of Nineteenth-Century Journalism in Great Britain and Ireland. Academia Press and British Library. 2009
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See also "Professional Journals" at pages 509 and 510. *(1964) 3 The Solicitor Quarterly 115 (April
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*Owen Hood Phillips. A First Book of English Law. Sweet & Maxwell. Fourth Edition. 1960. Page 169. *Glanville Williams.

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. Eleventh Edition. Stevens. 1982. Page 47. *Winfield, Percy H. The Chief Sources of English Legal History. Harvard University Press. 1925. Reprinted by Beard Books. 2000
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*Michael Harwood. Conveyancing Law & Practice. Second Edition. Cavendish Publishing Limited. 1996
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