Miceal Mylvaganam

Miceal has 34 years’ experience in giving pre-publication law and regulatory advice. Called to the Bar in 1989 he undertook a specialist defamation pupillage, advising Fleet Street in his early career in private practice. He cut his teeth at the Criminal Bar by day and Fleet Street by night. He left the Bar to head Channel One TV legal department for four years before joining the BBC where he worked for 18 years advising in the Editorial Legal and Editorial Policy departments. He offers the full suite of pre-publication legal and OFCOM advice for any UK regulated service or publisher. Whilst at the Bar he completed an LLM specialising in Media and IP law.

He has advised on a number of series and programmes familiar to most people in the UK: BBC News including Today, Have I Got News For You, Jonathan Ross, Mock The Week, When Louis Theroux Met ( including Jimmy Savile and Neil Hamilton), Who Killed Jill Dando (Panorama), Cradle To Grave (drama about the Danny Baker Story), Coup (a factual drama about a failed coup in Equatorial Guinea) , Rack Pack (the Hurricane Higgins drama that made a debut on iPlayer), In Denial of Murder (drama about a miscarriage of Justice in Murder conviction of Stephen Downing, Hattrick, The Alan Clarke Diaries (adapted for BBC TV), Britain In A Day (a publicly-crowd sourced documentary capturing one day in the UK produced by Ridley Scott), Terry Pratchett – Living with Alzheimer’s, Traffic Cops & Motorway Cops, Crime Squad, 4x4, Trouble At The Top, Kilroy, Frankie Boyle on iPlayer, News Quiz, 15 Minute Musicals on Radio 4, Watchdog and BBC Worldwide Books.

Miceal’s speciality has been True Crime, Miscarriages of Justice, tag-along emergency-service docs and factual drama.

More recently at R&C he has advised on the manuscripts of Hannah Barnes: Time To Think, (Heather Martin), the Reacher Guy, (Jill Lepore), If, Then and Bring Back Our Girls (Joe Parkinson, Drew Hinshaw) . He has advised on the Anti-Vax Conspiracy (txed on C4), The Wimbledon Murder (of Muriel MacKay) (txed on Sky, Australia), How To Win A World Cup (Goalhanger podcasts), Terror Plot Foiled (Audible), A Thousand Blows, Series 1 (streaming Disney), Dragon Striker (streaming on Disney), Open Secrets Beirut/Thailand/Korea ( VICE), Deadendia (streamed on Netflix) and Panorama BBC – TikTok (Hardcash Productions).

In 2018, Miceal was admitted as a lawyer in NSW, Australia. He spends time in both Australia and the UK. He is an Arsenal fan and keen street and landscape photographer.

Miceal is pronounced /me-haul/. It is Irish for Michael. He doesn’t add the accents.