Joshua Rozenberg is a British

British people

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 legal

English law

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 commentator and journalist

Journalist

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After taking a law degree at Wadham College, University of Oxford

University of Oxford

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, he qualified as a solicitor

Solicitor

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 in 1976, at Dixon Ward solicitors in Richmond, Surrey.

Rozenberg began his career in journalism at the BBC in 1975, where he launched Law in Action

Law in action

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on BBC Radio 4

BBC Radio 4

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 in 1984. At the BBC he worked across all media formats, providing legal commentary on major cases and where legal affairs affected a headline story. In 2000 he joined the Daily Telegraph as Legal Affairs Editor, where he remained until the end of 2008. He also wrote a column for the Evening Standard

Evening Standard

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Now a freelance journalist, he writes regular columns for the Law Society Gazette

Law society

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, Law Business Review and Standpoint

Standpoint (magazine)

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magazine. In May 2010 he started writing a weekly blog for The Guardian's

The Guardian

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online law page. On June 8, 2010, he returned to the BBC to chair Law in Action, 25 years after starting the radio programme.

Rozenberg holds an honorary doctorate in law from the University of Hertfordshire

University of Hertfordshire

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, is an Honorary Bencher of Gray's Inn

Gray's Inn

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, and is accredited as a mediator

Mediator

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 by the ADR group. He has won the Bar Council

Bar council

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's Legal Reporting Award four times.

Rozenberg is married to fellow journalist Melanie Phillips

Melanie Phillips

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; the couple have two children.

External links

• Personal website
• Rozenberg's blog at The Guardian
  The Guardian
  The Guardian, formerly known as The Manchester Guardian , is a British national daily newspaper in the Berliner format...
  
  
• Law column at Standpoint
  Standpoint (magazine)
  Standpoint is a monthly British cultural and political magazine. Its premier issue was published at the end of May 2008 – the first launch of a major current affairs publication in the UK in more than a decade....
  
  
• Rozenberg at Jornalisted
• Law Reports, the former column of Rozenberg at the Daily Telegraph