Stark. - Starkie's Nisi Prius Reports
Forming part of the English Reports, Volume 171.
The original law report was published in three volumes and was entitled:
"Reports at Nisi Prius, King's Bench and Common Pleas, 1817 - 1823."
Thomas Starkie (1782-1849) was called to the bar through Lincoln's Inn in 1810 and joined the Northern Circuit as roving barrister.
Starkie was originally a Tory in politics but changed to Liberal and failed at his one attempt to get elected to the House of Commons under the Liberal banner. Two years before he died, he was appointed judge. He was also well-known for his 3-volume book Practical Treatise on the Law of Evidence.1
Thomas Starkie was mentioned in Holdsworth's A History of English Law:
"Starkie, the reporter of nisi prius cases, was the writer of several valuable text books, a member of the Commission on the Practice and Procedure of the Courts of Common law which was appointed in 1828, and Downing Professor of the Laws of England at Cambridge."
REFERENCES:
- Duhaime, Lloyd, E.R. Legal Citation
- Holdsworth, William, A History of English Law, Vol. 13 (London: Methuen & Co., 1952), p. 439
- Smith, George, Dictionary of National Biography (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1922). NOTE 1.