Joshua Rozenberg KC (Hon)
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Joshua Rozenberg KC (hon) is Britain’s most experienced and highly-respected full-time legal commentator and regularly appears on news networks in the UK and beyond, including Sky News, BBC and Channel 4. He hosted the flagship Law in Action on BBC Radio 4 for many years, having launched the programme in 1984 and returning to present from 2010.
His blog, A Lawyer Writes, launched in 2020, provides unrivalled reporting and analysis of legal developments as seen from the United Kingdom. Alongside this, he has his podcast, A Lawyer Talks, launched in 2024, and together they’ve amassed over 20,000 subscribers.
After studying law at Oxford University, Joshua trained as a solicitor, qualifying in 1976. He also holds honorary doctorates in law from the University of Hertfordshire (1999), Nottingham Trent University (2012), the University of Lincoln (2014) and the University of Law (2014).
From 1985-2000, Joshua was the BBC’s legal correspondent and at the turn of the millennium, he moved to The Daily Telegraph where he edited the paper’s legal coverage until 2008. For the last 17 years, he has written a twice-monthly column for the Law Society Gazette. From 2010-2016, he wrote a weekly commentary for The Guardian and from 2019-2022, he wrote a monthly column for The Critic magazine.
He has won the Bar Council Reporting Awards four times – including a prize for his BBC Radio 4 documentary on the Supreme Court, Top Dogs.
Joshua has spoken at the prestigious EU Conference, Assises de la Justice in Brussels, where he commentated on legal matters and justice in the UK. He also regularly hosts conferences and panel debates both in the UK and internationally.
Joshua has published a number of books over the years, including Trial of Strength (1997), examining the tensions between ministers and judges under the Thatcher government, The Search for Justice (1995), an anatomy of the law in the mid-1990s, The Case for the Crown (1987), chartering the launch of the Crown Prosecution Service and Privacy and The Press (2004), an exploration into legal protection around freedom of expression. His most recent title, Enemies of the People? How Judges Shape Society, was released in 2020.
Joshua is an honorary Master of the Bench (bencher) of Gray’s Inn and was a non-executive board member of the Law Commission from 2019-2024. In 2016, he was made a KC(hon) and still is the only journalist to have ever been appointed to this role.