Marcel Berlins

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Marcel Berlins is a legal commentator who is best known for his weekly column in The Guardian newspaper. He is also a lecturer in media law at City University, London. He was the presenter of BBC Radio 4's legal programme Law in Action and retired after 15 years in 2004.

Marcel's hobbies include reading crime thrillers and horse racing, he often includes tips in his column for horses with law-related names.

In his Guardian column on February 15th 2006 Marcel said of Wikipedia that it had, "an open door policy, heart-warmingly inclusive of the whole world. That, regrettably, does not ensure intellectual validity."

In the same article he said, "If I wish to find out about pigeon racing, I want to be sure that the person writing about it has bred, raised, trained and raced pigeons, and has intensively studied the history of the sport."

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1979 - Ramesh Maharaj, barrister behind bars
1982 - Living Together - with Clare Dyer
1986 - The Law Machine - The last edition was published in 2004- with Clare Dyer