Secretary & Group Legal Director - Paul Vickers

Paul joined the Board in September 1999 having been a director of Mirror Group since 1994.

He originally qualified as a barrister and was in private practice at the bar. He was legal manager of the London Daily News, which he left to join the breakfast television company TV-am where he subsequently became Assistant Managing Director. He was previously a non-executive director of Virgin Radio.

Paul is a director of the Press Standards Board of Finance, the body that funds and sets the remit for the PCC.