Chapter and verve: the best reads of 2018
An indispensable guide on how to write clearly; useful lessons for aspiring solicitors; and a fascinating account of the murder of a George Bernard Shaw devotee. David Pickup chooses his best books of 2018.
Rise and fall
End of an Era: How China’s Authoritarian Revival is Undermining Its Rise | By Carl Minzner
Life after a breakdown
This Too Will Pass | By Richard Martin
A new front in the war against legislative overload
Red Tape: Managing Excess in Law, Regulation and the Courts | Robin Ellison
Rules for robots
Robot Rules: regulating artificial intelligence, by Jacob Turner
Sting in the tale
To Trust or Not To Trust | By Manny and Brigitta Davidson
Minority report
Dissenting Judgments in the Law | Edited by Neal Geach and Christopher Monaghan
Silent witnesses
All that remains: A life in death | By Sue Black
Book review: Family Law
Edited by Ruth Lamont
Book review: Introduction to the English Legal System
By Martin Partington
Book review: Confessions of an English Psychopath
By Jack D. McLean
Book review: A Manual of Style for Contract Drafting (4th edition)
By Kenneth A Adams
BOOK REVIEW: Valuable guidance on drafting
Drafting Commercial Agreements (2nd edition)
Book review: The Aladdin Trial
By Abi Silver
BOOK REVIEW: Giving human rights a voice
Lord Dyson’s trenchant lectures covering wide-ranging topics from Magna Carta to asset inequality between litigants in the modern world are drawn together into one volume.
Book review: Getting to grips with the system
English Legal System (3rd edition) by Steven Wilson, Helen Rutherford, Tony Storey and Natalie Wortley
