About Marcel Berlins
Marcel Berlins was a French lawyer, writer and broadcaster. He was best known for his work in the United Kingdom, writing for British national newspapers The Times and The Guardian, presenting BBC Radio 4's legal programme Law in Action for 16 years, and teaching Media Law at City, University of London. He began presenting BBC Radio 4's legal affairs programme Law in Action in 1988, and won two awards for Legal Broadcaster of the Year, before retiring from the programme in 2004. He devised and presented, for London Weekend Television, the first television drama-documentary to feature real lawyers and judges doing their job and created and edited the award-winning publication The Law Magazine. The worsening political situation in South Africa saw Berlins move firstly to Paris, and then to London to avoid French military service.
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