Joshua Rozenberg

Education and career

Joshua Rozenberg was educated at Latymer Upper School in Hammersmith and Wadham College, University of Oxford, where he took a law degree. He qualified as a solicitor in 1976 after training at Dixon Ward solicitors in Richmond, London, although he never practised law.

Rozenberg began his career in journalism in 1975 at the BBC,

He resigned from his Telegraph position in 2007, explaining in 2015 his reasons for doing so. While reporting for the newspaper on the House of Lords legal ruling on the applicability of the Human Rights Act 1998 outside Britain, Telegraph editors pressured him to include a statement that, under the ruling, legal claimants against the actions of British Army in Iraq would be entitled to millions of pounds in compensation. In Rozenberg's view this was not accurate, and he refused to include the statement. According to Rozenberg, Telegraph news editors later altered one of his reports without his knowledge to include such a statement, one that Rozenberg had warned them was false; the claim appeared under his by-line.

After leaving the Telegraph Rozenberg wrote a column for the Evening Standard. A freelance journalist since his Telegraph tenure, he writes regular columns for the Law Society Gazette and The Critic. He wrote a weekly column for The Guardian's online law page from 2010 to 2016. Also in 2010, nearly 25 years after leaving the radio programme, he returned to the BBC to present Law in Action until its final edition in March 2024. He continues to be seen on BBC Television News as a legal affairs analyst.

Recognition

Rozenberg 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). Rozenberg is also an honorary bencher of Gray's Inn, and is a non-executive board member of the Law Commission. He has won the Bar Council's Legal Reporting Award four times.

Publications

• Joshua Rozenberg (24 April 1997). Trial of Strength, Richard Cohen Books, .

Personal life

Rozenberg is married to journalist Melanie Phillips; the couple have two children. He is Jewish.

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References

References

1. (2011). "The Palgrave Dictionary of Anglo-Jewish History". Palgrave Macmillan.
2. (2008-04-21). "Joshua Rozenberg". The Times.
3. "Joshua Rozenberg". Noel Gay.
4. United Kingdom House of Lords Decisions: Judgments – [https://www.bailii.org/uk/cases/UKHL/2007/26.html ''Al-Skeini & Ors (Respondents) v. Secretary of State for Defence (Appellant)''], ''Al-Skeini and others (Appellants) v. Secretary of State for Defence (Respondent)'' (Consolidated Appeals) {{Oscola. NEUT. 2007. uk. 26. UKHL
5. (28 July 2020). "Man in the middle: Interview with Joshua Rozenberg".
6. (2020). "Fake law: the truth about justice in an age of lies". Picador.
7. "Joshua Rozenberg". Evening Standard.
8. (2010-05-26). "Joshua Rozenberg returns as presenter of ''Law in Action''". BBC Press Office.
9. (2010-05-27). "Joshua Rozenberg returns to Radio 4's Law in Action". Press Gazette.
10. (26 March 2024). "Law in Action – farewell edition". BBC Radio 4.
11. (9 May 2019). "Joshua Rozenberg QC (Hon) and Baroness (Ruth) Deech DBE QC (Hon) appointed Non-Executive Board Members".
12. "Queen's Counsel in England & Wales: 2015 to 2016". Ministry of Justice.
13. Ashley, Jackie. (6 June 2006). "The multicultural menace, anti-semitism and me". [[The Guardian]].
14. Rozenberg, Joshua. (17 December 2015). "UK marriage law is out of step with the times". The Guardian.