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CLIVE COLEMAN |
| Clive was called to the Bar in 1986. His practice has covered both criminal (defence & CPS) & civil law (medical negligence, property & insolvency). 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! |
| From 1990-99 Clive was a Senior & then Principal Lecturer in Law on the Bar Vocational Course at the Inns of Court School of Law, where he helped to pioneer skills training for barristers. He has lectured & written on a wide range of legal subjects, including; contract, evidence, civil litigation, negotiation, advocacy, communication & the art of persuasion. |
| During this period, Clive started to develop his writing career. In 1992, he won the prestigious BBC Radio Light Entertainment Contract Writers Award (previous winners include Angus Deayton & Rory McGrath). Clive regularly contributed to Weekending, The News Huddlines & wrote the sitcom Hair In The Gate starring Alistair McGowan. |
| Clive's television comedy work includes; Spitting Image, Smith & Jones & Clive Anderson Talks Back though he is perhaps best-known for Chambers, his hit Radio 4 & then BBC 1 sitcom about barristers starring John Bird, James Fleet & Sarah Lancashire. |
| In 1998 Clive won the BBC's inaugural Frank Muir Award for outstanding comedy writing. He is currently working with Tiger Aspect Productions & Verity Lambert on two new comedy drama projects. |
| Clive's television drama work includes; The Bill (for who he has also acted as legal consultant on court based storylines), Heartbeat & Crossroads. |
| In between writing for television & radio, Clive has also written an occasional column for The Independent in the guise of John Fuller-Carp, the character played by John Bird in Chambers. |
| Clive has performed character-based sketches for Channel 5's Exclusive show. For the past ten years, he's regularly performed on radio with credits including co-writing & performing in Radio 4's Control Group 6 (nominated for the Writer's Guild Award for Best Radio Comedy), Radio Five Live's The Game's Up with Alistair McGowan & You Cannot Be Serious with Kevin Day. Other regular guest appearances include Radio 4's The Motion Show & Loose Ends. |
| From May 2004 Clive took up the role of presenter of the BBC Radio Four flagship legal analysis programme, Law In Action. |
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