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. 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==