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Clive Coleman was the BBCтАЩs Legal Correspondent, a role he arrived at via a career as a barrister, Principal Lecturer in Law, and then one of the countryтАЩs leading comedy writers.
Clive covers a broad range of domestic and international legal stories and issues. He works across television and radio news, appearing regularly on the Today programme, Five Live, Breakfast, The News Channel and BBC news bulletins. For six years from 2004 тАУ2010 he presented the BBCтАЩs flagship legal analysis programme тАШLaw In ActionтАЩ on Radio 4, a role for which, in 2009, he won the Bar CouncilтАЩs Legal Broadcasting Award.
Clive has presented many other television and radio programmes for the BBC including Panorama (BBC1), Profile (R4), Pick of the Week (R4), The Cases That Changed Our World (R4). He has also been a columnist on legal issues on тАШThe TimesтАЩ comment pages and written for тАШThe GuardianтАЩ and тАШThe IndependentтАЩ.
Clive Coleman began his career as a barrister in 1986 at the chambers of Robin Stewart QC at 2 Harcourt Buildings, Temple. Working in both crime and civil law, for prosecution and defence, his career started in spectacular fashion when he managed to get his first client off with a mere six-month prison sentence.
That was for a parking offence, though, to be fair, he had just parked on top of his social worker! So, itтАЩs perhaps not surprising that he saw the funny side of life in court and wanted to write about it.
Clive Colemans television credits include: тАШDead RingersтАЩ, тАШSpitting ImageтАЩ, тАШSmith and JonesтАЩ, and тАШChambersтАЩ his hit BBC1 sit-com about barristers, starring John Bird, James Fleet and Sarah Lancashire. He has also written a huge amount of comedy for Radio with credits including, тАШWeekendingтАЩ, тАШThe News HuddlinesтАЩ and his sit-com тАШSpending My InheritanceтАЩ, starring Kris Marshall. Clive also wrote television drama on the ITV series тАШThe BillтАЩ (for whom he has also acted as a legal consultant on court based storylines).
In 1992, he won the prestigious BBC Radio Light Entertainment Contract Writers Award. In 1998 he won the BBCтАЩs inaugural тАШFrank Muir AwardтАЩ, for outstanding comedy writing.
Clive Coleman has delivered keynote and after dinner speeches to a broad range of UK based and multi-national companies, trade and professional bodies. As a conference chair, he has hosted numerous conferences and awards ceremonies where his combination of analytical, broadcasting and writing skills have enabled him to write and deliver talks, links and chair debates which ensure that the focus is always sharp, intelligent and witty.
