Recently Thomson Reuters celebrated the 20 th anniversary of the publication of the third (looseleaf) edition of Adams on Criminal Law with a luncheon gathering of authors along with consulting editor, Sir Bruce Robertson. 20 years of the third edition of Adams on Criminal Law "On behalf of Thomson Reuters I'd like to welcome everyone to what is an important milestone in the life of Adams on Criminal Law . We are celebrating a 20th anniversary -- the 20th anniversary of publication of the third edition (the looseleaf edition) of Adams. It published in March 1992. But of course Adams is in fact almost 50 years old, with a history dating back to 1964 when the first edition of Criminal Law and Practice in New Zealand (with Sir Francis Adams as the consulting editor) was published by Sweet & Maxwell in response to the Crimes Act 1961. (This was of course, well before Sweet & Maxwell became a sister company of Brookers with the acquisition of Brookers by the Thomson Corporation in 1994). The work sold then for the princely sum of seven pounds and seven shillings. I know this because there is a review of the work that appears in what was just the second issue of the NZ Universities Law Review in 1964. The reviewer was Peter Mahon who from what I can establish was the Crown Solicitor in Christchurch at the time and had been junior counsel for the Crown in the Parker-Hulme murder case in 1954.