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15 July 2022 / John Cooper KC
Issue: 7987 / Categories: Features , Criminal , Profession
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Book reviews: Archbold & Blackstone's

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"This book is an icon of criminal practice and will be with us, no doubt for the next 200 years"

Archbold: Criminal Pleading, Evidence & Practice

Archbold 2022 - Sweet & Maxwell

 

General Editor: His Honour Judge Mark Lucraft QC

Publisher: Sweet & Maxwell

ISBN: 9780414098459RRP: eBook–Proview £395

Blackstone’s Criminal Practice 2022

Blackstone's criminal practice 2022

Editors: David Ormerod CBE, QC (Hon) and David Perry QC

Publisher: Oxford University Press

ISBN: 9780192849410RRP: Hardback, 3 Supplements + eBook £395

This year, LexisNexis celebrates the 200th anniversary of this magazine. By a nice coincidence Archbold also celebrates its own, very special 200th anniversary.

The new edition of Archbold includes the preface to the 1822 first edition by the then editor, John Frederick Archbold. He was born in 1785 and called to the Bar in 1814. As well as creating one of the most iconic criminal law texts, he also dabbled in design and was credited with the ‘Archbold Collar’ in 1830, a version of the high collar which apparently sloped off the ear. It was not a major success and

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