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*Blackstone’s Criminal Practice 2004. 14th Edition. 2003.

*Blackstone’s Criminal Practice 2004. 14th Edition. 2003.

*Blackstone’s Criminal Practice 2005<ref>For a review of this edition, see “NLJ Book Reviews” (2005) [https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=ldQwAQAAIAAJ 155] New Law Journal 89 at 98 (Winter Book Review Supplement)</ref>

*Blackstone’s Criminal Practice 2005<ref>For a review of this edition, see “NLJ Book Reviews” (2005) [https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=ldQwAQAAIAAJ 155] New Law Journal 89 at 98 (Winter Book Review Supplement)</ref>

*Blackstone’s Criminal Practice 2006

*Blackstone’s Criminal Practice 2010

*Blackstone’s Criminal Practice 2010

*Blackstone’s Criminal Practice 2011

*Blackstone’s Criminal Practice 2011

Revision as of 06:04, 7 November 2025

Blackstone’s Criminal Practice is a book about English criminal law. The First Edition was published by Blackstone Press in 1991. The Twelfth Edition (2002) was published by Oxford University Press as “A Blackstone Press Book”.[1] The Thirty-sixth Edition (2026) was published by Oxford University Press in 2025.[2] The editor-in-chief of the first seventeen editions (1991 to 2007) was Peter Murphy.[3][4][5] The general editors of the Eighteenth to Twenty-fourth editions (2008 to 2014) were Sir Anthony Hooper (who was Lord Justice Hooper until 2012) and David Ormerod.[6][7] The editors in chief are Professor David Ormerod KC and David Perry KC.

It is one of the “main” books that lawyers practising on the criminal side use.[8] The Crown Prosecution Service describe this book as a “standard source”[9] and as a “recognised legal textbook”, and say that the legal guidance given on their website is no substitute for a book such as this one.[10] By 2002, it was the “leading” work for proceedings in the magistrates’ courts.[11] It was again described as one of the main or leading practitioner treatises by Griffiths (2010),[12] by Hannibal and Mountford[13] and by Dyson and Meyer (2022).[14] In 2016, the Judicial Executive Board selected Blackstone’s Criminal Practice 2017 as the principal practitioner text for all criminal courts in England and Wales.[15]

Editions

  • Blackstone’s Criminal Practice. 1st Edition. 1991. Reprinted twice 1991.[16]
  • Blackstone’s Criminal Practice 1992. 2nd Edition. 1992.[17]
  • Blackstone’s Criminal Practice 1993. 3rd Edition. 1993. Reprinted 1993.[18]
  • Blackstone’s Criminal Practice 1994. 4th Edition. 1994.[19]
  • Blackstone’s Criminal Practice 1995. 5th Edition. 1995.[20]
  • Blackstone’s Criminal Practice 1996. 6th Edition. 1996.[21]
  • Blackstone’s Criminal Practice 1997. 7th Edition. 1997.[22]
  • Blackstone’s Criminal Practice 1998. 8th Edition. 1998.[23]
  • Blackstone’s Criminal Practice 1999. 9th Edition. 1999.[24]
  • Blackstone’s Criminal Practice 2000. 10th Edition. 2000.[25]
  • Blackstone’s Criminal Practice 2001. 11th Edition. 2001.
  • Blackstone’s Criminal Practice 2002. 12th Edition. 2002.
  • Blackstone’s Criminal Practice 2003. 13th Edition. 2003.
  • Blackstone’s Criminal Practice 2004. 14th Edition. 2003.
  • Blackstone’s Criminal Practice 2005[26]
  • Blackstone’s Criminal Practice 2006
  • Blackstone’s Criminal Practice 2010
  • Blackstone’s Criminal Practice 2011
  • Blackstone’s Criminal Practice 2012
  • Blackstone’s Criminal Practice 2016
  • Blackstone’s Criminal Practice 2017

See also

References

  1. ^ Blackstone’s Criminal Practice 2002. Twelfth Edition. Oxford University Press.
  2. ^ Blackstone’s Criminal Practice 2026
  3. ^ Peter Murphy, 76: Judge behind niqab-wearing case and legal thriller writer. The Times. 8 October 2022
  4. ^ “Master Peter Murphy 1946-2022”. The Middle Templar Magazine. 2022. (Honourable Society of the Middle Temple).
  5. ^ Blackstone’s Criminal Practice 2007. Seventeenth Edition. Oxford University Press. 2006. pp iii & iv.
  6. ^ Blackstone’s Criminal Practice 2008. Eighteenth Edition. Oxford University Press. 2007.
  7. ^ Blackstone’s Criminal Practice 2014. Twenty-fourth Edition. Oxford University Press.
  8. ^ Peter Hungerford-Welch. Criminal Litigation & Sentencing. Sixth Edition. Routledge. 2004. Page 753. Digitized copy from Google Books.
  9. ^ “Theft Act Offences” Archived 2013-08-07 at the Wayback Machine.
  10. ^ “User Guide” Archived 2013-03-25 at the Wayback Machine.
  11. ^ Jowett, Christian. “Blackstone’s Criminal Practice 2002” (2002) 152 New Law Journal 752
  12. ^ James Griffiths (ed). “Practitioner works”. Advanced Criminal Litigation in Practice. (City Law School). Oxford University Press. Ninth Edition. 2010. Section 2.3 at p 3.
  13. ^ Hannibal and Mountford. “Blackstone’s Criminal Practice”. Criminal Litigation 2015-2016. Oxford University Press. p 8.
  14. ^ Dyson and Meyer. “Structures within Criminal Legal Reasoning”. Ambos, Duff, Heinze, Roberts and Weigend (eds). Core Concepts in Criminal Law and Criminal Justice. Cambridge University Press. 2022. Volume 2. p 19.
  15. ^ Max Walters. “Game of tomes: Blackstone’s gets the judges’ nod”. The Law Society Gazette. 12 October 2016.
  16. ^ For reviews of this edition, see “Blackstone’s Criminal Practice” in “Books” (1991) 141 The New Law Journal 822; “Book Reviews” (1991) 155 Justice of the Peace 525 (17 August 1991); (1991) 64 The Police Journal 373; “Book Reviews” (1991) 55 The Journal of Criminal Law 537; F O’Donoghue (1991) 9 The Irish Law Times and Solicitors’ Journal 264; P Charleton, “Book Reviews” (1993) 11 The Irish Law Times and Solicitors’ Journal 26; “Reviews” (1991) Legal Action: The Bulletin of the Legal Action Group, p 22 [1];
    and “Book Reviews” (1992) 1 Commonwealth Law Librarian 85. For further commentary on this edition, see “Operation Heather” in “Of Law & Lawyers” (1991) 155 Justice of the Peace 363 (8 June 1991).
  17. ^ For reviews of this edition, see “Book Reviews” (1992) 156 Justice of the Peace 413 (27 June 1992); “Books” (1992) 142 The New Law Journal 680; and “Book Reviews” (1992) 56 The Journal of Criminal Law 308.
  18. ^ For reviews of this edition, see (1993) 157 Justice of the Peace 347 (29 May 1993); “Crime books” in “Book Reviews” (1993) 137 The Solicitors’ Journal 642 (2 July 1993); and Florence O’Donoghue, “Book Reviews” (1993) 11 The Irish Law Times and Solicitors’ Journal 161. For further commentary on this edition, see “Of Law & Lawyers” (1993) 157 Justice of the Peace 171 (13 March 1993).
  19. ^ For reviews of this edition, see “Book Reviews” (1994) 158 Justice of the Peace & Local Government Law 259 (16 April 1994); “Book Reviews” (1994) 58 The Journal of Criminal Law 408; Florence O’Donoghue (1994) 12 The Irish Law Times and Solicitors’ Journal 128; and (1994) 5 Criminology Australia: Quarterly Journal of the Australian Institute of Criminology 34.
  20. ^ Scan
  21. ^ For reviews of this edition, see “Book Reviews” (1996) 60 The Journal of Criminal Law 325; and 44 Current Publications in Legal and Related Fields 36
  22. ^ For reviews of this edition, see “Crime” (1997) 141 The Solicitors’ Journal 472 (16 May 1997) (Books Supplement); and “Book Reviews” (1997) 15 Irish Law Times 167.
  23. ^ For a review of this edition, see F O’Donoghue, “Book Reviews” (1998) 16 Irish Law Times 159
  24. ^ For a review of this edition, see F O’Donoghue, “Book Reviews” (1999) 17 Irish Law Times 144
  25. ^ For a review of this edition, see (2000) 18 Irish Law Times 196
  26. ^ For a review of this edition, see “NLJ Book Reviews” (2005) 155 New Law Journal 89 at 98 (Winter Book Review Supplement)

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