The author holds a doctorate in defamation, privacy and free speech law from University College London, as well as two Masters degrees (in Media and Communications Law, and in Corporate Law and Human Rights Law). He is a partner at a leading law firm in Johannesburg, South Africa, where he specialises in Media and Entertainment Law. He also teaches part-time at the University of the Witwatersrand in Media Law, and trains journalists and editors working at various institutions and organisations in South Africa. The author is a solicitor of the High Court of England and Wales.