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doley also denied that carter - ruck had orchestrated an attack on the pcc through mccann, saying his views about the pcc predated the relationship with carter - ruck .
libel firm carter - ruck was employed to represent him following articles querying his conduct .
– the carter ruck press release on proceedings against the bbc. (thanks @ willjordan )
there were issues of civil society at stake which carter ruck defended as well as me .
carter - ruck argued an order stopping the media revealing this injunction also applied to parliamentary reports .
carter ruck are notorious in the uk for defending the indefensible at great cost as “reputation managers” .
there' s no doubt peter carter - ruck was a very assiduous and conscientious lawyer .
gerry mccann, father of the missing child madeleine and a carter - ruck client, also criticised the pcc at the same hearing. mccann gave evidence flanked by adam tudor, a partner at carter - ruck .
carter - ruck is representing a consortium of leading hotel groups in judicial review proceedings against eastleigh borough council .
last month, the freelancer journalist purportedly received a cease and desist on onecoin’s behalf from carter - ruck .
sir christopher meyer claims firms such as carter - ruck regard watchdog as' sworn enemy'. by oliver luft
combines his specialist media / reputation management work with helping spearhead carter - ruck' s expanding commercial litigation practice .
nigel tait of carter - ruck acted on a defendant cfa along with after the events insurance (ate) .
and after publishing a warning on twitter, he was threatened with personal libel by law firm carter - ruck .
' farter - f * ck': carter - ruck gains crude copycat website after it firm ...
andrew stephenson, a senior partner at peter carter - ruck and partners, from which its founder retired in 1996, said yesterday mr carter - ruck had a
kind of love - hate relationship
with private eye .
carter - ruck acts for' nt1' and' nt2' in their ground - breaking claims against google llc .
the partners of carter - ruck are delighted to welcome commercial litigation and international arbitration partner matthew wescott to the firm .
carter - ruck partner nigel tait has responded to english pen and index on censorship' s libel reform report. by
a partner with considerable experience in commercial litigation and international arbitration has joined disputes boutique carter - ruck inâ ...
derek jameson, as a tabloid editor, had been unwisely advised to sue the bbc over a satirical sketch. carter - ruck said jameson would get £25, 000 - £50, 000. david eady qc advised carter - ruck in writing that jameson accept the £10 that the bbc had offered in settlement plus his costs. carter - ruck concealed this opinion from jameson. jameson lost the case and was sent a bill by carter ruck for £41, 342. 50. when he learned by chance of the qc' s pessimistic advice, carter - ruck told him a string of lies .
carter - ruck said :
the partner who dealt with tullett brown is no longer at carter - ruck. also, as you are aware, tullett brown is now in liquidation. we have no instructions to respond to your questions .
” others view firms like carter - ruck and schillings euphemistically as “reputation managers” for the privileged and wealthy. ”? ? ?
peter carter - ruck, britain' s best - known libel lawyer, has died only weeks after his wife of 52 years. mr carter - ruck, 89, won renown through many libel case successes - not least against the magazine private eye .
london law firm carter ruck — which gave her legal guidance is sueing her management company cine entertainment for about £10, 000 .
both carter - ruck, which specialises in libel law, and trafigura declined to comment on this story in time for publication .
in his article, penman reveals that one service carter - ruck provide is the attempted silencing of journalists who report on onecoin .
to any brit with interest in this area, carter ruck turning up usually means guilty as hell, but rich as hell .
a partner with considerable experience in commercial litigation and international arbitration has joined disputes boutique carter - ruck in london. carter - ruck has hired disputes partner matthew wescott from dac beachcroft, expanding the firm' s commercial litigation and arbitration practices andãâ ...
ofcom has dismissed complaints of antisemitism and impartiality against carter - ruck client al jazeera over its 2017 documentary series theâ ...
randolph churchill, one of the first litigants to sue private eye in 1963, was also represented by mr carter - ruck .
another impressed observer comments :
carter - ruck know what they are talking about and are relentless in pursuing their client’s interests .
in fact, at least three lawyers at carter - ruck have come from schillings, hanna basha, felicity robinson and michelle riondel .
i do hope this won’t prove embarrassing for my friends at law firm carter - ruck, which represents an investment “scheme” called onecoin .
claire gill, partner at carter - ruck, said: “neither the fca nor the city of london police have contacted our clients .
the only fact the guardian can report is that the case involves the london solicitors carter - ruck. photograph: john d mchugh / afp
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trained at peter carter - ruck & partners, qualified in 1983. partner from 1986. joined hamlins as a senior consultant in 2015 .
eminent media lawyer joins hamlins media team from carter - ruck eminent media lawyer andrew stephenson has joined hamlins llp as... read more
on 3 march 2010, the financial times published a large feature on libel and privacy law, including numerous references to carter - ruck .
it emerged later that the total bill for carter - ruck' s services included a further £2, 820 for work conducted in june .
commercial litigation and international arbitration specialist matthew wescott has joined london firm carter - ruck as a partner, in a move theâ ...
commercial litigation and international arbitration specialist matthew wescott has joined london firm carter - ruck as a partner, in a move theãâ ...
peter carter - ruck should peter carter - ruck really be in a hall of fame? detested by private eye, which loved to bait him by calling him carter - fuck and farter - cuck, his extraordinary aggression was best suited to an era before mediation. his departure from his eponymous firm was as colourful as his letters before action. and yet carter - ruck probably deserves a place in the hall of fame for epitomising everything fleet street loathes. for a while he was undeniably effective on behalf of his clients. and how many lawyers get not one, but two private eye nicknames? carter - ruck died in 2003 .
carter - ruck, one the uk’s best - known law firms is best known for its experience in the field of litigation and dispute resolution .
alan rusbridger reported at 12: 53pm london time that carter ruck have caved in and removed injunction against the guardian from reporting the parliamentary gag .
shilpa shetty, this year’s winner of celebrity big brother, has instructed carter - ruck to advise her on her dealings with the british media .
meanwhile, london law firm carter ruck, which gave her legal guidance, is suing her management company cine entertainment for about £10, 000 .
the former head of the inquiry has instructed london media boutique carter - ruck following reports in the times over her handling of theâ ...
carter - ruck has a pre - eminent reputation in the field of challenges to targeted sanctions and has represented clients before the unâ ...
pingback: twitter trackbacks for in defence of carter - ruck? « a clatter of the law [ clatterofthelaw. wordpress. com ] on urltoken
again, to fulfill our accreditation commitments, we should say: the law firm carter - ruck wrote that and they remain the sole rightholders .
cameron doley, managing partner with carter - ruck, denied that his firm had any involvement with mosley, who he said was not a client .
i left his firm in pure carter - ruck circumstances. heinemann, for whom we acted, was publishing a book about the ford family, by robert lacey. i was told by carter - ruck that there was no conflict in our advising. lacey sent part of the book to henry ford for comment. later i found carter - ruck advising ford that the book was full of libel. he proved unable to give a truthful explanation .
nick harvey, the mps' representative on the house of commons commission, disclosed the bills for carter - ruck' s services over the summer .
helpfully the site — which is still live — redirects presumably baffled carter - ruck clients to the firm' s genuine website after a few seconds .
private eye should have hired peter carter - ruck to prevent the renowned libel lawyer acting against the magazine, its former editor richard ingrams has admitted .
mr carter - ruck was also a
courteous
character who would sometimes invite mr bindman for a drink at gentleman' s club the garrick .
cases brought by tudor roberts, a solicitor, and the journalist derek jameson illustrate the carter - ruck techniques. in 1985 roberts was awarded £20, 000 damages against private eye plus costs on the higher scale. i agreed before i left carter - ruck' s firm that he would only pay the costs recoverable from private eye. carter - ruck, however, billed roberts £60, 000. the cost judge allowed only £18, 567. my assurance was ignored. carter ruck wanted the lot. it was two years before roberts was reimbursed his damages and the legal costs he had earlier paid .
yesterday, i understand, carter - ruck, quite astonishingly, warned of legal action if the guardian reported my question. in view of the seriousness of this, will you accept representations from me over this matter and consider whether carter - ruck' s behaviour constitutes a potential contempt of parliament ?
one of the uk’s best - known law firms, carter - ruck has a longstanding reputation for its expertise in the field of litigation and dispute resolution .
as reports vanish from mainstream media websites, the buzz about trafigura and carter - ruck gets louder on the blogs and other online outlets. by mercedes bunz
the law firm of peter carter - ruck and partners has lost a case in which it could have won £1. 5m in fees from the taxpayer .
shilpa shetty, this year' s winner of celebrity big brother, has instructed carter - ruck to advise her on her dealings with the british media .
last year, libel lawyers carter - ruck told freelance journalist tony levene he
personally
would be sued if he continued to warn about tullett brown .
the terms trafigura, carter - ruck and guardian were all pushed into the
trending topics
list of most used terms on the site this morning .
other uk disputes hires this month include matthew wescott, whojoined carter - ruck as a partner from dac beachcroft, expanding the firm' sâ ...
i pointed out the other day that someone had sidewikied the carter ruck homepage. but the original carter ruck sidewiki has now vanished. go to the homepage and it' s not there. try and read it directly and you get an error page. (note to google - work on your 404s) .
within the past hour trafigura' s legal firm, carter - ruck, has withdrawn its opposition to the guardian reporting proceedings in parliament that revealed its existence .
carter - ruck’s team handles a wide variety of complex litigation and arbitration spanning heavyweight commercial disputes, banking litigation, ip claims and high - value employment claims .
the sunday times' s john witherow and law firm carter - ruck' s andrew stephenson appointed to government panel on libel. by jason deans and stephen brook
carter - ruck initially approached ecg facilities service in 2009. they were seeking a service provider to cover m & e service requirements to their london holborn office .
carter - ruck’s clients include celebrities, politicians, corporations and leading political figures. the firm also acts for a number of heads of state and overseas governments .
solicitor - advocate for the claimant, adam tudor, carter - ruck my lord, in this action i appear for the claimants, gerry and kate mccann .
kari wahlroos in full flow at rally i do hope this won’t prove embarrassing for my friends at law firm carter - ruck, which represents a ...
“my friends have told me that carter - ruck is probably the most expensive law firm for defamation work, with charge rates of around â£600 perâ ...
in a statement issued by law firm carter ruck, ahmed said: “i am very pleased that the telegraph has apologised for what it accepts areâ ...
the article purportedly alleges that hadi had received bribes from prime minister datuk seri najib razak to the tune of rm90 million. hadi was represented by lawyers from the legal firm of carter - ruck and barrister jacob dean. carter - ruck, assisted by a legal opinion from a law expert in malaysia hadâ ...
london: british law firm
carter - ruck
has filed a formal complaint with the british broadcasting regulator (ofcom) against al arabiya newsâ ...
celebrity threesome couple' pjs' and' yma' have dropped their lawyers carter ruck in favour of schillings, just months after the firm helpedâ ...
carter - ruck can charge a little more than the minimum wage because its many wealthy clients know that its lawyers will push as hard as theyâ ...
carter - ruck had one row after another with his partners. in 1977 they tried to boot him out and after four years' litigation were successful when he decamped to another part of the same building to form peter carter - ruck & partners. within four years all his founding partners had left, including his daughter .
through its uk lawyers, the firm carter - ruck, the church deny spying on us and reject mike rinder' s version of events dating back to 2007 .
carter - ruck had tried to stop the media revealing that a labour mp had tabled a question relating to oil - trading firm trafigura and ivory coast toxic waste .
however, carter - ruck relented, allowing media to reveal that there is an injunction in place blocking the publication of the report, which was commissioned by trafigura .
the scope of services carter - ruck provide to onecoin is unclear. on their website the firm lists media law, international law and commerical disputes as practice areas .
wade began his legal life at carter - ruck, before moving on to be the head of legal for richard desmond, now the owner of the express group .
alex story, an olympic rower who competed in the 1996 games in atlanta, has hired the libel specialists carter - ruck to claim he should haveâ ...
the mail has failed to shake off its jan moir sidewikis by moving url. but it seems that the power of carter ruck may prevail where the mail cannot .
the labour mp paul farrelly told the speaker, john bercow, attempts by lawyers carter - ruck to gag the media could be a
potential contempt of parliament
.
shortly before the case was due to come to court, carter - ruck announced that its clients would no longer oppose reporting of what was said in parliament about them .
carter - ruck’s practice is truly global in nature and its lawyers have considerable experience and expertise in cases having either a multi - jurisdictional or a political / diplomatic angle .
carter - ruck on libel and privacy (part of the butterworths common law series) is an essential purchase for every practitioner involved with the law of defamation and privacy .
given this news, and that trafigura and carter - ruck are trending topics on twitter this morning, it seems timely to publish this commentary on events from last month .
nigel is the managing partner of carter - ruck as well as head of the firm’s defamation and media law department. nigel’s principal areas of expertise are three - fold .
carter ruck, which is defending thomsen on a no - win - no - fee basis, says the case should be dismissed because the material is clearly not defamatory .
commodities firm trafigura and solicitors carter - ruck have given up attempts to conceal a report on the company’s activities in the ivory coast. you can read the minton report here
she told the times that she had instructed carter - ruck, the law firm, with a view to taking legal action for defamation “to stamp out thoseâ ...
tony was forced to back down and we can only guess how many more people were ripped off as a result of carter - ruck' s threats. the firm now says :
the partner who dealt with tullett brown is no longer at carter - ruck ,
adding :
we have no instructions to respond to your questions .
large numbers of messages were posted on twitter, to the extent that
trafigura
and
carter - ruck
became the most viewed keywords in london throughout the morning .
the provisions that protect us here do state that we must acknowledge the original copyright holders, which we do freely and happily: the law firm carter - ruck wrote this .
later, whilst complaining to the observer newspaper that it was pursuing a vendetta against him over the jameson case, carter - ruck also inquired about the possibility of getting some work .
demanding and uncompromising, carter - ruck was not the easiest of colleagues, and he fell out with his partners several times over the years. in the late 1970s, a struggle began for control of oswald hickson, and in 1981 carter - ruck walked out, along with his daughter and several other employees, taking 1, 500 client files with him .
the only fact the guardian was able report was that the case involves the london solicitors carter - ruck, who specialise in suing the media for clients including individuals and global corporations .
[ … ] urltoken » trafigura and carter ruck: how social media can guard against misuse of libel as a public interest service, i am including links below to any articles and resources i come across relating to the press gag injunction made by carter ruck in the interests of their client, trafigura. (tags: guardian legal libel trafigura) [ … ]
carter - ruck - notable clients and cases - trafigura... identified, involve proceedings, which cannot be mentioned, on behalf of a client who must remain secret... fact the guardian can report is that the case involves the london solicitors carter - ruck .
the paper further claimed that this case appears
to call into ...
solicitor - advocate for the claimant, adam tudor, carter - ruck my lord, in all the circumstances, mr and mrs mccann’s object in bringing these proceedings has been achieved .
in 2012, after tullett brown went into liquidation, levene asked lennons and carter - ruck about the checks they carried out before accepting tullett brown as a client. lennons replied ,
yet another example of a law firm trying to stifle news stories about scammers came to light this week. this time it involved private eye' s favourite lawyers carter - ruck: - urltoken last year, libel lawyers carter - ruck told freelance journalist tony levene he
personally
would be sued if he continued to warn about tullett brown on twitter and via the net. tony was forced to back down and we can only guess how many more people were ripped off as a result of carter - ruck' s threats. the firm now says :
the partner who dealt with tullett brown is no longer at carter - ruck ,
adding :
we have no instructions to respond to your questions .
the law firm carter - ruck has made a fresh move that could stop an mps' debate next week by claiming a controversial injunction it has obtained is
sub judice
.
have an argument with len mccluskey and you find that the leader of unite is prepared to spend his money, or more likely his members' hard - earned dues, on hiring the libel lawyers of carter - ruck at ãâ£550 an hour (plus expenses, of course). carter - ruck can charge a little more than the minimum wageãâ ...
in a statement provided by indigo' s lawyers, carter - ruck, the company said :
indigo has fully complied with all nex listing rules and has alwaysâ ...
the only fact the guardian can report is that the case involves the london solicitors carter - ruck, who specialise in suing the media for clients, who include individuals or global corporations .
in the mid - 1930s, carter - ruck spent several months in germany, where he attended meetings addressed by hitler and other nazi leaders, and witnessed brownshirt violence against german communists .
his practice had rightwing connections. with carter - ruck at the helm, the firm of oswald hickson collier acted for the conservative party and the likes of norman tebbit and cecil parkinson .
churchill told mr carter - ruck that he had always thought the wheels of justice ground incredibly slowly - but
you have broken all the records
with a speedy service for clients .
( ii) trafigura and carter ruck solicitors on 11 september 2009 on the publication of the minton report on the alleged dumping of toxic waste in the ivory coast, commissioned by trafigura .
geoffrey bindman, a media solicitor and
regular opponent
of mr carter - ruck, agreed there was
a lot of criticism of the high level of costs
he demanded .
it was an unusual invitation. when carter - ruck partners nigel tait and guy martin arrived at the free word centre in farringdon on 10 november, they were hardly surrounded by fans .
r. i. p carter - ruck in loving memory of the people that gagged the guardian reporting on the british parliament. was brought down by twitter on the 13th october 2009 .
as with many driven men, there were rumours of affairs. one certainly occurred with his secretary of some years ago, may richards. carter - ruck ultimately fell out with richards over his handling of a case on behalf of derek jameson, former editor of the daily express. jameson was highly critical of carter - ruck' s failure to show him an opinion from counsel, which suggested that commencing proceedings for libel against the bbc was extremely risky. richards was on the verge of reporting carter - ruck to the law society, but one of his senior partners negotiated the withdrawal of her complaint. carter - ruck himself was by this time - the mid - eighties - a former law society council member and probably the most eminent libel lawyer in britain .
carter - ruck is currently instructed in numerous financial mis - selling cases. the claims total many millions of pounds and include claims of mis - selling to british nationals in other eu countries .
peter carter - ruck, the libel lawyer who died on friday aged 89, had an unrivalled client list and a uniquely fearsome reputation in the offices of newspaper and magazine editors and rival solicitors .
bloggers were active this morning in speculating about what lay behind the ban on the guardian reporting parliamentary questions. proposals being circulated online included plans for a protest outside the offices of carter - ruck .
october 2007: it emerges that mr martin spent more than £20, 000 of taxpayers’ money on the services of the libel firm carter - ruck following a spate of media articles criticising his performance .
today, carter - ruck solicitors released a statement on behalf of trafigura which complicates the episode somewhat and it may be that the legal technicalities behind this story are not simple enough to fit in a soundbite (or tweet, for that matter). carter - ruck has been accused of chilling freedom of speech. should that criticism not be leveled at the firm’s clients rather than the firm itself ?
from losing clients, there were occasional complaints that carter - ruck had filled them with false hope. in 1980, when derek jameson lost his action against the bbc over a radio 4 weekending programme which described him as an
east end boy made bad
, he was faced with costs of £75, 000. in his memoirs, touched by angels, jameson complained that carter - ruck had failed to inform him of counsel' s opinion that the case was
high risk
( carter - ruck' s justification being that it would have undermined jameson' s morale in court) .
of course the firm is better known for acting tenaciously for libel claimants and for famously having the first letter of ruck being replaced by f in private eye. some writers, including an author i know, see getting a threatening letter from carter - ruck perversely as some kind of badge of honour. “i’m going to frame it in my office”, he tells me – whilst sipping a caramel latte. others view firms like carter - ruck and schillings euphemistically as “reputation managers” for the privileged and wealthy .
it was a classic carter - ruck operation ,
meyer told mps, adding that the session in which mccann give evidence to the committee had seen
a tendentious onslaught on the pcc
.
carter - ruck has unrivalled expertise in reputation management. we help individuals and organisations who face adverse media interest, with fast and reliable advice on defamation, privacy, protection of confidential information and harassment .
as a public interest service, i am including links below to any articles and resources i come across relating to the press gag injunction made by carter ruck in the interests of their client, trafigura .
“even as we celebrated our election victory, carter - ruck were locked in a battle with rupert murdoch and news international which could easily have escalated into a bloody – and bloody ruinous – war. ”
at the time of his death he was still actively involved in his city law firm, peter carter - ruck and partners, although he had not taken part personally in legal proceedings for 10 years .
as reported by the guardian’s editor - in - chief alan rusbridger (via twitter), lawyers carter - ruck will no longer try to prevent his publication reporting mp paul farrelly’s parliamentary question about trafigura .
meyer, the outgoing chairman of the pcc, suggested to mps on the commons culture, media and sport committee that carter - ruck had used a hearing before them earlier this month to attack his organisation .
the guardian was due to appear at the high court at 2pm to challenge carter - ruck' s behaviour, but the firm has dropped its claim that to report parliament would be in contempt of court .
it can now be reported that legal firm carter - ruck tried to prevent the guardian from reporting mp paul farrelly’s question about uk oil trader trafigura in parliament, but it will no longer pursue its attempt .
after requests under those same laws, it has now emerged that the speaker, nicknamed gorbals mick, has spent nearly £3, 000 of taxpayers' funds on
legal advice
from carter - ruck .
and by the way, fucking great news about carter - ruck, which bit the big one this time. they' re very used to winning for the cult. nice to see the trend shifting .
carter - ruck partner adam tudor today sent a letter to the speaker, john bercow, and also circulated it to every single mp and peer, saying they believed the case was
sub judice
.
the conservative mp peter bottomley went on to tell gordon brown at prime minister' s questions that he would report carter - ruck to the law society for obtaining an injunction that purported to ban parliamentary reporting .
trafigura, advised by carter - ruck, has won a £25, 000 compensation payout and an apology from the bbc over its reporting of the oil company’s legal battle with claimants based in the ivory coast .
of course the firm is better known for acting tenaciously for libel claimants and for famously having the first letter of ruck being replaced by f in private eye. some writers, including an author i know, see getting a threatening letter from carter - ruck perversely as some kind of badge of honour .
i’m going to frame it in my office
, he tells me – whilst sipping a caramel latte. others view firms like carter - ruck and schillings euphemistically as
reputation managers
for the privileged and wealthy .
carter - ruck remained at oswald hickson until 1981, when his partners told him that it was time he retired. instead, he moved on and set up peter carter - ruck and partners, the firm that still today bears his name, but not without falling out with his former colleagues and engaging in protracted litigation. his daughter, the solicitor julie scott - bayfield, had also worked for him and became embroiled in a dispute with her father. for years father and daughter did not speak, a state of affairs that must have deeply affected carter - ruck, whose son, brian, had died in a transport accident .
carter ruck has a great roster of clients! scientology, trafigura. footballers. classy. if chloe from x factor wanted a law firm she would fit right in - as long as she had the cash .
“the partner who dealt with tullett brown is no longer at carter - ruck. also, as you are aware, tullett brown is now in liquidation. we have no instructions to respond to your questions. ”
the guardian this afternoon said that the law firm carter - ruck had ended its bid to ban the newspaper from publishing a parliamentary question about its client, one of the largest oil trading companies in the world .
in 1967 carter - ruck himself was also sued, by the caterers at his daughter' s wedding after he had refused to pay part of the bill because, he claimed, too much champagne had been poured .
when my government turned its back on me and no one else took any interest in the abuse of british citizens in a uk aid fuelled country and not one british paper covered my trial, carter ruck were there .
law firm carter - ruck' s super - injunction to attempt to stop the reporting of a question on the trafigura affair in parliament has galvanised mps and other bodies to take up the fight for freedom of expression .
carter - ruck can charge a little more than the minimum wage because its many wealthy clients know that its lawyers will push as hard as they possibly can to defend clients’ interests, as our spat with mccluskey showed .
on the down side, carter - ruck was a bit one dimensional and, in those cases where the guardian was pitched against him, not always quite as sharp as his reputation either ,
preston added .
farage relates: “i did something which i have never done before, something which was against my nature. i called the famous libel solicitors carter - ruck and appealed for the protection of the law against allegations without substance .
carter - ruck -
increasingly known for its work in representing davids in their battles against goliaths in the financial sector
- features in the times' discussion of the debate over access to justice in the commercial sector .
but in this case it appears the very expensive carter - ruck has effectively been used to issue press releases and that those instructing them have been content to sign blank cheques irrespective of the cost to the taxpayer .
michael martin, a working - class glaswegian who earns £136, 677 a year for presiding over parliamentary debates, recruited the services of libel lawyers carter - ruck after a series of negative stories about him in the press .
it was on 11 september that carter - ruck, the libel specialists employed by the london - based trading company, first went to court to get an emergency super - injunction preventing the guardian from publishing the minton report .
although a frightening adversary, carter - ruck did lay claim to sympathy for the underdog and a commitment to social justice: he always felt strongly, for example, that legal aid should be available for libel and slander cases .
not to worry, when all this finally does come out in the open, maybe you can instruct a solicitor to send the mccans and carter - ruck. ;) the truth will out as my mother says ...
farrelly said :
carter - ruck' s manoeuvres this week, were it not so serious, would be tantamount to high farce. it is important mps should not be prevented from going ahead with debates next week .
it may also have helped that the school has repeatedly deployed libel lawyers carter ruck against critics of the school’s management, and is currently suing lambeth council over three emails in which its chief auditor raised concerns about its financial affairs .
charlotte watson joins schillings having previously been a partner at carter - ruck. she brings extensive media law experience to the firm having spent the last eight years working in a freelance capacity for some of the uk’s leading print publications .
strengths one interviewee says :
the carter - ruck team provides a truly first - class service. they are responsive and are problem solvers who continually think in new and innovative ways to get the best result for their clients .
index on censorship and english pen today welcomed mps’ robust response to law firm carter - ruck' s challenge to reporting of parliament, and called for a ban on the use of so - called ‘super injunctions’ except in extreme circumstances .
that is why i was somewhat grateful to scientology' s uk lawyers at carter - ruck when they sent the bbc photographs of me hugging amy scobee at the end of a long and at times harrowing series of interviews about her experiences .
there’s also the silent protest being staged on thursday at 1pm in chancery lane outside the offices of carter ruck. anyone who is available and interested in making a statement about misuse of libel is invited to attend. full details at: urltoken
[ … ] then we saw the trafigura / carter - ruck gagging order farce, and the way the twitterverse and blogosphere reacted. (joanne jacobs has pulled together lots of different reports and responses to trafigura here .) [ … ]
thomsen, who was in london last week meeting his lawyers at the firm carter ruck, has no doubt about the driving force behind his case .
i believe that the lawsuit is an attempt to silence me ,
he said .
carter - ruck agreed to act on a no - win, no - fee basis, a system threatened by proposed changes to the law. the £55, 000 is to be donated to two charities for missing people and sick children .
yet he was perhaps best known for is regular run - ins with private eye .
i' d feel neglected if a few weeks went by without a letter from carter - ruck ,
the magazine' s editor ian hislop once said. private eye would retaliate to his writs by misspelling his last name .
it is a very, very amusing magazine ,
carter - ruck admitted .
but they lack any sort of sensitivity and can sometimes be very hurtful .
but the outbreak of the second world war interrupted his legal career. carter - ruck served with distinction as an artilleryman, joining as a gunner and obtaining his commission in 1940. by the time he left in 1944, he had become a gunnery captain and, during four days' leave in 1940, had married ann maxwell. the couple appeared nigh - on inseparable, ann at his side for every social occasion. carter - ruck was shattered by her death earlier this year .
his clients had included laurence olivier, winston churchill and michael heseltine. another client, the late prime minister harold wilson, once said that mr carter - ruck had won everything he had asked for in a libel action against the daily mail .
earlier this week, the labour mp paul farrelly said carter - ruck might be in contempt of parliament for seeking to stop the guardian reporting questions he had put down on the order paper revealing the existence of the
super - injunction
.
mr carter - ruck represented nora beloff, an observer journalist who sued for libel after auberon waugh jested in his private eye column that she was frequently found in bed with harold wilson and other members of the cabinet but nothing improper had occurred .
house of commons speaker michael martin paid £21, 516 over the course of three months this year to the law firm carter - ruck in order to deal with newspaper stories that questioned his impartiality and conduct. the problem is that it came from the public purse rather than martin' s £136, 677 salary. but i won' t say anything rude about that - in case he spends even more by asking carter - ruck to send me a warning letter. (via press gazette )
house of commons speaker michael martin paid £21, 516 over the course of three months this year to the law firm carter - ruck in order to deal with newspaper stories that questioned his impartiality and conduct. the problem is that it came from the public purse rather than martin' s £136, 677 salary. but i won' t say anything rude about that - in case he spends even more by asking carter - ruck to send me a warning letter. (via press gazette )
without all of these “invisible” costs being met, there would simply be no lucrative court case for libel firms like carter ruck and schillings to cash in on. so what’s actually happening here is that the uk taxpayer is indirectly subsidising the libel industry .
mention the name carter - ruck and media law springs to mind. the firm that has launched a thousand libel writs has long held an enviable — among other claimant firms, at least — reputation as the bête noire of publishers and editors. carter - ruck has also drawn criticism as being too ready to use the no - win, no - fee regime — introduced in defamation claims by lord woolf in 2000 — to act for people who could otherwise easily afford their slice of access to justice .
principal areas of work media law: carter - ruck has unrivalled expertise in advising individuals, companies and other organisations who find themselves subject to, or threatened with adverse or intrusive media coverage. the firm’s lawyers have secured many of the highest ever damages awards in this field, as well as unprecedented front page apologies in national newspapers. the firm’s claimant practice is the largest in the country, but the firm also represents defendants, including some of the uk’s best - known publishers. international law: carter - ruck’s international law team has extensive experience in litigation, dispute resolution and regulatory matters involving an international or diplomatic context. while much of carter - ruck’s work is conducted before the uk courts and by way of arbitration, the firm also has cases proceeding in the european court of justice, before the united nations and in the courts of a host of overseas jurisdictions. commercial dispute resolution & litigation: carter - ruck has considerable experience in a very wide range of high value, complex commercial disputes. the firm has represented clients in the high court, court of appeal, supreme court, privy council and european court of justice. carter - ruck’s international expertise means it is well placed to advise on multi - jurisdictional disputes and to conduct international arbitration and litigation in courts overseas. in certain high - value cases carter - ruck is willing to act on the basis of conditional fee agreements and to secure after - the - event insurance. financial mis - selling & professional negligence: carter - ruck’s commercial litigation team has a formidable track - record of acting in high value financial mis - selling claims for compensation against institutions including banks, pensions providers and financial and tax advisers. the firm is also highly experienced in bringing negligence claims against solicitors, accountants, surveyors and other professionals .
in all three cases carter - ruck acted on a no win, no fee basis (conditional fee arrangement). and in the sikh holy man case at least, they were left significantly out of pocket after failing to recover any fees from the claimant .
ingrams, who presided over private eye during several high - profile libel actions in which mr carter - ruck acted against the satirical fortnightly, said that when he met the magazine' s arch - foe he turned out to be
deferential and polite
.
peter preston, who received several libel writs from mr carter - ruck while he was editor of the guardian, described the lawyers as
a canny, clever man who saw libel could be big business and, for a time, made it so
.
carter - ruck earned enough to pay for a series of ocean yachts - each one called fair judgment - drive a le mans rolls - royce and buy homes in hertfordshire, argyll and marbella. he lunched well at the garrick and spent evenings at covent garden .
peter carter - ruck married, in 1940, ann maxwell, daughter of group captain reginald stuart maxwell, mc, dfc, afc; she died earlier this year. they had a son, who died in a sailing accident in 1973, and a daughter .
the question was printed on the order paper yesterday and relates to the activities of trafigura, an international oil trader at the centre of a controversy regarding toxic waste - dumping in the ivory coast, and to the role of its solicitors, carter - ruck .
carter - ruck, the law firm representing trafigura, was accused of infringing the supremacy of parliament after it insisted that an injunction obtained against the guardian prevented the paper from reporting a question tabled on monday by the labour mp paul farrelly. [ my emphasis. ]
but thanks to the credit crunch, carter - ruck’s image is getting a makeover. the city practice handles as much libel as ever — most of it still for claimants — but the firm is turning its expertise to the world of finance. this time the same…
for more than 25 years, carter - ruck reigned supreme as britain' s leading libel solicitor, first as senior partner of oswald hickson collier & co and later, from the age of 67, with his own firm of peter carter - ruck & partners. fit, with a trim figure and capable sailor' s hands, he worked a more than full week until well into his eighties, by which time, as one interviewer noted, his voice had become
hushed and dry, like the rustling of documents
.
in 1989 carter - ruck publicly attacked the £600, 000 damages awarded to sonia sutcliffe against the magazine and was invited to an eye lunch, an occasion he attended with some trepidation. not long afterwards, he asked if, in the new spirit of friendship, they would now stop printing the first letter of ruck as an f. their response, not unpredictably, was to print the first letter of carter as an f as well .
i think my relationship with private eve is now definitely hate ,
he said later .
peter frederick carter - ruck, lawyer: born 26 february 1914; senior partner, oswald hickson, collier & co 1945 - 81; founder and senior partner, peter carter - ruck and partners 1981 - 98, consultant 1998 - 2000; chairman, law society law reform committee 1980 - 83; fellow, society for advanced legal studies 1998 - 2003; consultant, pellys solicitors 2000 - 03; married 1940 ann maxwell (died 2003; one daughter, and one son deceased); died great hallingbury, essex 19 december 2003 .
mps reacted with anger to the suggestion a law firm had tried to gag a newspaper from reporting parliament and demanded an emergency debate, to be held next wednesday. peter bottomley, tory mp for worthing west, threatened to report carter - ruck to the law society .
carter - ruck responded yesterdayon thursday by writing to the speaker of the commons, john bercow, warning him it viewed the matter as sub - judice, which would prevent mps from debating the report, or the law firm' s behaviour. then, after newspapers had gone to press tonight, trafigura and carter - ruck threw in the towel, announcing the guardian should
treat these orders as discharged
. it was a recognition that the attempts at secrecy had been defeated by a newspaper, the collaboration of the web, and parliament .
( nb: if anyone from radio 4 or itv wants to use fussbudget the lawyer in any of their satire shows, they are entirely welcome to him. they too will have to credit law firm carter - ruck if they choose to use this particular sketch though. )
his job with lee bolton secure, carter - ruck opted to go to germany for three months rather than start university, a decision he later regarded as a mistake. in germany he witnessed, in 1932, growing signs of nazism, and attended a rally in freiburg at which hitler spoke. he wrote that he was
deeply affected by the increasing fanaticism and violence on the streets
. returning from germany, carter - ruck qualified as a solicitor with lee bolton before joining oswald hickson, where he was soon to become head of its litigation department .
at the same time, tony bennett, having received appropriate legal advice, has already replied, earlier today, to the legal letter received by carter - ruck on behalf of brian and patrick kennedy. accompanying this statement is tony’s on - the - record reply to that letter .
this comes six years after other lawyers got involved over ms brown’s self - published book casting doubt on the mccanns’ account of how their daughter disappeared. after amazon heard from libel law firm carter - ruck, acting for the mccanns, the book was withdrawn from the online bookseller .
ofcom has dismissed complaints of antisemitism and impartiality against carter - ruck client al jazeera over its 2017 documentary series the lobby. activists luke akehurst, russell langer and ella rose accused al - jazeera of breaches of privacy and unfair editing in relation to the documentary, whichãâ ...
in his memoirs he praised the rightwing financier sir james goldsmith for alleviating the injustice of the lack of legal aid with money from a foundation. he said it let solicitors assess cases in the same way as the legal aid board would. however, the assessor was none other than carter - ruck, and his firm was paid, win or lose. the beneficiaries tended not to be widows and orphans but rightwing politicos such as neil hamilton, who trousered £20, 000 from the bbc for a panorama programme - carter - ruck' s bill was £240, 000.
carter-ruck is a british law firm founded by peter carter-ruck . the firm specialises in libel , privacy , international law and commercial disputes . the leading legal directories ( legal 500 and chambers and partners ) rank carter-ruck in the top tier of media , defamation and privacy lawyers in the uk . the firm is described as being " a force to be reckoned with " and as " acclaimed for its depth of quality expertise " routinely acting in " ground-breaking cases for high-flyers in the fields of business and entertainment " . carter-ruck 's public international law team is described as " excellent , very knowledgeable and [ as having ] a flourishing sanctions practice " and as being " renowned for its distinct expertise in sanctions against states and targeted asset freezing against individuals , and for its involvement in highly sensitive cases . " the firm 's banking litigation practice is also ranked by both directories . in december 2010 a new edition of the leading textbook " carter-ruck on libel and privacy " was published by butterworths lexis-nexis . the firm offers some of their services including libel actions and high-value commercial claims on a " no win , no fee " basis . 
carter-ruck is a british law firm founded by peter carter-ruck. the firm specialises in libel, privacy, international law and commercial disputes. the leading legal directories (legal 500 and chambers and partners) rank carter-ruck in the top tier of media, defamation and privacy lawyers in the uk. the firm is described as being " a force to be reckoned with " and as " acclaimed for its depth of quality expertise " routinely acting in " ground-breaking cases for high-flyers in the fields of business and entertainment ". carter-ruck's public international law team is described as " excellent, very knowledgeable and [ as having ] a flourishing sanctions practice " and as being " renowned for its distinct expertise in sanctions against states and targeted asset freezing against individuals, and for its involvement in highly sensitive cases. " the firm's banking litigation practice is also ranked by both directories. in december 2010 a new edition of the leading textbook " carter-ruck on libel and privacy " was published by butterworths lexis-nexis. the firm offers some of their services including libel actions and high-value commercial claims on a " no win, no fee " basis.
carter-ruck is a british law firm founded by peter carter-ruck. the firm specialises in libel, privacy, international law and commercial disputes. the leading legal directories (legal 500 and chambers and partners) rank carter-ruck in the top tier of media, defamation and privacy lawyers in the uk. the firm is described as being " a force to be reckoned with " and as " acclaimed for its depth of quality expertise " routinely acting in " ground-breaking cases for high-flyers in the fields of business and entertainment ". carter-ruck's public international law team is described as " excellent, very knowledgeable and [ as having ] a flourishing sanctions practice " and as being " renowned for its distinct expertise in sanctions against states and targeted asset freezing against individuals, and for its involvement in highly sensitive cases. " the firm's banking litigation practice is also ranked by both directories. in december 2010 a new edition of the leading textbook " carter-ruck on libel and privacy " was published by butterworths lexis-nexis. the firm offers some of their services including libel actions and high-value commercial claims on a " no win, no fee " basis.