| Categories | Legal periodical |
|---|---|
| First issue | 1856 |
| Website | www |
| ISSN | 0038-1047 |
Solicitors Journal is a legal periodical published in the United Kingdom.
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]
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 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]
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]
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]
