Name the celebrity lawyer known as 'Mr Loophole' who has defended a string of celebrity clients including Sir Alex Ferguson and David Beckham?

Nick Freeman (born 1956) is an English solicitor. Freeman is the owner of Manchester-based legal practice Freeman & Co. and is best known as a celebrity defence lawyer, specialising in traffic and speeding offences.

He has been nicknamed "Mr Loophole" by the British tabloid press, a soubriquet which he has since trademarked.

In his book The Art of the Loophole, published by Coronet, Freeman reveals his legal loophole secrets.

His first high-profile case was that of Sir Alex Ferguson in 1999. Freeman argued that Ferguson had to use the hard shoulder to get to the training ground to allow for his upset stomach and need for a toilet.

Another one of his clients is David Beckham. In 1999, Beckham was given an eight-month ban, having been caught driving his Ferrari at 76 mph in a 50 mph zone in Alderley Edge, Cheshire. Freeman successfully appealed the disqualification, arguing that he was petrified by being chased for ten miles from his home by the paparazzi.