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We are pleased to confirm that no fewer than *eight* members of Carter-Ruck have been featured as leaders in their fields in the 2025 edition of The Spear's 500 (Spear's Magazine) within the Reputation and Privacy Lawyers index. Congratulations to: Nigel Tait Adam Tudor Persephone Bridgman Baker  Charles Enderby Smith Rebecca Toman Alasdair Pepper Claire Gill and Antonia Foster The directory features the very best private client advisers, wealth managers, lawyers, and service providers globally. Congratulations to everyone who has been included this year and thank you Spear's Magazine. Full story and profiles can be viewed here: https://lnkd.in/emA7aA6H #medialaw #medialawyers #internationallaw #carterruck

Carter-Ruck is very pleased to announce the promotion of two of its talented solicitors. James Watkins has been made a senior associate and Isabella Theocharous has been made an associate. Please join us in congratulating them! James' practice covers a wide range of reputation management issues relating to defamation, misuse of private information, data protection, blackmail and harassment on behalf of business figures, politicians, “influencers”, private individuals and companies. Much of his work involves complaints relating to social media platforms whether that be complaints to the platform itself or action against other platform users. To read more about James, see here https://lnkd.in/eNNsayfh Isabella recently joined the firm and brings with her, her expertise in advising high-profile and HNW/UHNW clients (private individuals and companies), on a range of reputation, risk management and privacy matters including defamation, data protection, breach of privacy, regulatory and employment disputes. To read more about Isabella, see here https://lnkd.in/eu9NkFQ4. #medialaw #medialawyers #defamation #reputation #carterruck

Carter-Ruck Partner Persephone Bridgman Baker spoke to Sky News yesterday as the Duke of Sussex and Lord Watson settled their legal action against News Group Newspaper. #privacy #medialaw #carterruck #phonehacking #princeharry

BBC withdraws publications and pays costs in settlement of libel claim brought by David Kezerashvili. https://lnkd.in/eV-Xvf_x

Nigel Tait wins Reputation Management Lawyer of the Year at the 2024 Spear’s Awards Carter-Ruck is pleased to announce that Managing Partner Nigel Tait has been awarded Spear's Magazine’s Reputation Lawyer of the Year Award in recognition of his outstanding service for #defamation, #privacy and #reputationmanagement. The award was presented to Nigel at the 2024 Spear’s Awards ceremony last night. The awards celebrated individuals and firms who have made a profound impact, setting benchmarks for #innovation, #leadership and dedication in serving #UHNW individuals. https://lnkd.in/eg7Jb6wY

High Court awards Ken Bates £150,000 in libel damages against Tom Rubython and Business F1 magazine Ken Bates, the former owner and Chairman of Chelsea Football Club, has today been awarded £150,000 in damages by the High Court in London in respect of a May 2023 article published by Tom Rubython and Business F1 magazine. The article made extremely serious, yet entirely false, allegations against Mr Bates, including the absurd suggestion that he had almost certainly had business rivals murdered. The Judge described the article as a ‘comprehensive character assassination’ of Mr Bates. The allegations were not put to Mr Bates in advance of publication and the Defendants did not seek to defend the allegations as being in any way true or rely on any other substantive defence. The Defendants attempted to argue that the allegations had not caused serious harm to Mr Bates’ reputation – an argument that the Judge wholly dismissed. As well as awarding very substantial damages, the Judge granted an injunction against the repetition of the libels. The Judge also ordered the Defendants to publish a summary of the judgment in their magazine, and pay Mr Bates’ legal costs. Mr Bates said ‘I am very pleased with the decision of the court today. This is an article that should never have been published, and the judgment makes that clear’. Mr Bates is represented by Antonia Foster and Caitlin Harris of Carter-Ruck and William McCormick KC of Selborne Chambers. https://lnkd.in/e8AzNExN #libel #reputationmanagement

Carter-Ruck client Vladimir Plahotniuc wins sanctions challenge in European Court of Justice Moldovan politician and businessman Vladimir Gheorghe Plahotniuc has been successful in challenging the 2023 restrictive measures imposed upon him by the EU Council. The General Court of the European Union held on 23 October 2024 that the Council of the European Union, in making its decision to impose restrictive measures upon our client in 2023, had failed to verify that the domestic proceedings underlying the designation had been conducted in accordance with his rights of defence and right to effective judicial protection. In making its decision to annul the 2023 restrictive measures, the General Court relied upon principles of EU sanctions law which had been developed in the EU litigation brought by this firm on behalf of the late ex-President of Egypt Hosni Mubarak and members of his family (Saleh Thabet and Others v Council (C-72/19 P and C-145/19 P, not published, EU:C:2020:992). Vladimir Plahotniuc was represented in this case by Charles Enderby Smith and Guy Martin of Carter-Ruck and Jason Pobjoy of Blackstone Chambers. https://lnkd.in/engjNT3D #sanctions

Claire Gill attending the 8th Annual Privacy & Data Protection Summit Carter-Ruck Partner Claire Gill will be attending the 8th Annual Privacy & Data Protection Summit, taking place on October 24-25th in Berlin, Germany.     This summit will be exploring the world of data privacy and protection through practical case studies, considering emerging regulations, awareness initiatives and breach management strategies. Delegates will be discussing new technologies, examining their potential to enhance privacy protection while also uncovering the hidden risks associated with AI, machine learning, blockchain, and other innovations. The Summit is being hosted by Luxatia International. #privacy #dataprotection https://lnkd.in/giZqeRe9.

High Court dismisses statutory reporting defence advanced by OCCRP in a libel claim brought by Dr Ashti Hawrami Antonia Foster and Caitlin Harris of Carter-Ruck, and Adrienne Page KC and Tom Blackburn of 5RB representing Dr Ashti Hawrami, formerly the Minister of Natural Resources and later, the Assistant Prime Minister for Energy Affairs in the Kurdistan Regional Government in his #libel claim. The claim relates to an article published online by Journalism Development Network Inc (through their website OCCRP) and two of its journalists. The article contains several references to Dr Hawrami which have led to his bringing proceedings against the Defendants in libel. The Defendants denied that the article was defamatory of Dr Hawrami. They also submitted that the article was a fair and accurate report of the judgment and proceedings in a separate legal case (to which Dr Hawrami was not a party) and that parts of the article should be protected by a qualified privilege pursuant to s.15 of the Defamation Act 1996. In her judgment dated 23 August 2024, Mrs Justice Steyn held that the article was defamatory of Dr Hawrami at common law. She also found that the article did not constitute a fair and accurate report of the other legal proceedings and that the Defendants’ defence of statutory qualified privilege failed. The Judge found that the OCCRP Article is a ‘critically different text’ from the material contained in that judgment, such that the ‘quality of fairness required for reporting privilege has been entirely lost’. https://lnkd.in/ehT3u8gF

Carter-Ruck expands International team with the hire of partner Tom Cameron from White & Case The partners of Carter-Ruck are delighted to welcome International Arbitration partner Tom Cameron to the firm. Tom joins the firm from international law firm White & Case LLP. Tom is a highly experienced international disputes lawyer, who has represented clients in numerous high-value commercial arbitrations, as well as in disputes under investment treaties. Having practised in Paris and London, Tom has experience of disputes under contracts with a wide array of different governing laws of both civil-law and common-law jurisdictions. He has experience of arbitrations seated in numerous jurisdictions (including England, Switzerland, Singapore, France, the Netherlands, Sweden, and Qatar) and under all the major institutional rules, as well as of advising on enforcement and annulment proceedings and other proceedings before national courts. https://lnkd.in/efyA__ME #internationalarbitration #commercialarbitration #investmenttreaties