Stone's Justices' Manual is a book published by LexisNexis Butterworths. It is "the standard work on summary procedure".[1] It displaced Burn's Justices of the Peace as the standard work on that subject from 1850 onwards.[2] By 1914, it was old, well-established and formidably large.[3]
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.
| Edition | Date | Editor | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 to 17 | 1842 to 1874 | Samuel Stone[4] | |
| 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 |