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 – 2010 he presented the BBC’s flagship legal analysis programme ‘Law In Action’ on Radio 4, a role for which, in 2009, he won the Bar Council’s 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 ‘The Times’ comment pages and written for ‘The Guardian’ and ‘The Independent’.
Clive 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, it’s perhaps not surprising that he saw the funny side of life in court and wanted to write about it. His television credits include: ‘Dead Ringers’ ,‘Spitting Image’, ‘Smith and Jones’, and ’Chambers’ 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, ‘Weekending’, ‘The News Huddlines’ and his sit-com ‘Spending My Inheritance’, starring Kris Marshall. Clive also wrote television drama on the ITV series ‘The Bill’ (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 BBC’s inaugural ‘Frank Muir Award’, for outstanding comedy writing.
Clive 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.
Your speech was one of the most stimulating and humorous that we have ever heard. It was one of the highlights of the evening. You managed very early on to grab the audience’s attention and relayed anecdotes to which many could relate. Your ‘Adopt a Lawyer for Christmas’ was a brilliant spoof. Thank you Clive for helping to make Gadsby Wicks 10th Anniversary Celebration such a success. Our families and guests enjoyed your company tremendously’, Roger Wicks and Gillian Gadsby, partners of Gadsby Wicks Solicitors.
“Perhaps it is because barristers are so used to thinking on their feet that some of Clive’s best material ‘seemed’ to be completely off the cuff. His quick wit and ability to tailor his speech to the requirements of our brief made for a marvelous evening” MD, Schering Plough
‘It’s no exaggeration to say that you ‘made the difference’ to our annual conference. Your professional links and razor sharp humour kept the pace up and the tone light, without flippancy. You were nominated ‘the best thing about the conference’ on the majority of event evaluation forms. Many thanks.QA Training Plc
‘It is unusual to re-book a speaker, people tend to want a change. Clive is an exception. We’ve been entertained by him on a number of occasions, each time he has been different, very funny and written fresh material about our company, current projects and personnel. We will be seeing him again.’ Cable & Wireless
‘I wanted to take this opportunity to record our grateful thanks for the wonderful performance you gave last Friday at our Annual Marketing Awards. The feedback from those who attended has been superb and as I indicated, you pitched your material exactly right for the mixed audience. We look forward to you joining us for a repeat performance next year.' Chartered Institute of Marketing
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 ‘The Times’ comment pages and written for ‘The Guardian’ and ‘The Independent’.
Clive 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, it’s perhaps not surprising that he saw the funny side of life in court and wanted to write about it. His television credits include: ‘Dead Ringers’ ,‘Spitting Image’, ‘Smith and Jones’, and ’Chambers’ 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, ‘Weekending’, ‘The News Huddlines’ and his sit-com ‘Spending My Inheritance’, starring Kris Marshall. Clive also wrote television drama on the ITV series ‘The Bill’ (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 BBC’s inaugural ‘Frank Muir Award’, for outstanding comedy writing.
Clive 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.
Your speech was one of the most stimulating and humorous that we have ever heard. It was one of the highlights of the evening. You managed very early on to grab the audience’s attention and relayed anecdotes to which many could relate. Your ‘Adopt a Lawyer for Christmas’ was a brilliant spoof. Thank you Clive for helping to make Gadsby Wicks 10th Anniversary Celebration such a success. Our families and guests enjoyed your company tremendously’, Roger Wicks and Gillian Gadsby, partners of Gadsby Wicks Solicitors.
“Perhaps it is because barristers are so used to thinking on their feet that some of Clive’s best material ‘seemed’ to be completely off the cuff. His quick wit and ability to tailor his speech to the requirements of our brief made for a marvelous evening” MD, Schering Plough
‘It’s no exaggeration to say that you ‘made the difference’ to our annual conference. Your professional links and razor sharp humour kept the pace up and the tone light, without flippancy. You were nominated ‘the best thing about the conference’ on the majority of event evaluation forms. Many thanks.QA Training Plc
‘It is unusual to re-book a speaker, people tend to want a change. Clive is an exception. We’ve been entertained by him on a number of occasions, each time he has been different, very funny and written fresh material about our company, current projects and personnel. We will be seeing him again.’ Cable & Wireless
‘I wanted to take this opportunity to record our grateful thanks for the wonderful performance you gave last Friday at our Annual Marketing Awards. The feedback from those who attended has been superb and as I indicated, you pitched your material exactly right for the mixed audience. We look forward to you joining us for a repeat performance next year.' Chartered Institute of Marketing
Clive is the BBC’s Legal Correspondent, a role he arrived at via a career as a barrister, Principal Lecturer in Law, and then one of the country’s leading comedy writers.
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