Clive Coleman interviewed by The Times on his career after the Bar

Our Senior Partner Clive Coleman interviewed by The Times on the role his time at the Bar has played throughout his varied career.

Having been a tenant at 2 Harcourt Buildings, Clive left practice to become a comedy writer, while also teaching the Bar Finals Course at the Inns of Court School of Law. He contributed to shows including ‘Weekending’, ‘The News Huddlines’, ‘Spitting Image’ and ‘The Bill’, and co-wrote the plays Great Britain and Young Marx with Richard Bean. Drawing on his experience at the Bar, Clive wrote the BBC sitcom ‘Chambers’ – a humorous look at life in a not very effective set of barristers chambers.

Working once again with Richard Bean, Clive also co-wrote the film ‘The Duke’, starring Jim Broadbent and Dame Helen Mirren, which told the true story of the 1961 theft of a famous Portrait of the Duke of Wellington by Francisco Goya. It culminates in a trial so extraordinary that the government of the day had to change the law of theft.

Alongside his writing career, Clive was a decorated BBC journalist. He initially hosted Radio 4’s Law in Action, before he became the BBC’s legal correspondent. This role saw him covering major domestic and international legal stories across the BBC news output on television, radio and online.

Speaking with The Times, Clive commented: “The gold thread through my life has been the law. Though I did not have a long and illustrious career at the Bar, my qualification as a barrister is the best investment I ever made.”

Read more in The Times, here.