Thursday 14th February 2013 - 01:00am
Joshua Rozenberg is Britain’s best-known commentator on the law. In 2012 he was included by The Times in its independently-judged list of the UK’s 100 most influential lawyers, the only journalist to feature in the Times Law 100.
Presenter of the popular Radio 4 series Law in Action, he also chairs Halsbury’s Law Exchange, an independent and politically neutral think-tank. He has served as BBC’s legal correspondent, then moved to The Daily Telegraph, editing the paper’s legal coverage. He writes a weekly commentary for the Guardian’s online law page with his print columns appearing in the Law Society Gazette and Standpoint magazine.
Top Dogs, his documentary about the launch of the UK Supreme Court, attracted widespread media coverage and won Joshua the Bar Council’s Legal Reporting Award for 2008/09, the fourth time he has received this honour.
Joshua is known for his independence, his authority and his ability to explain complicated legal issues with simplicity, clarity and wit. Because he trained as a lawyer before becoming a legal journalist, he is often the first port of call for broadcasters faced with a breaking legal story.
He appears regularly on Sky News, the BBC news channel and other news networks in the UK and the US. He has also been a guest on popular entertainment programmes such as the One Show and the Alan Titchmarsh Show.
He has a particular interest in constitutional reform and freedom of expression. His well-reviewed books include Privacy and the Press, Trial of Strength, The Search for Justice and The Case for the Crown.
After taking a law degree at Oxford he trained as a solicitor, qualifying in 1976. He holds honorary doctorates in law from the University of Hertfordshire (1999) and Nottingham Trent University (2012). He is an honorary bencher of Gray’s Inn and is accredited as a mediator by the ADR group.
