Carter-Ruck is accredited with the Law Society's Practice Management Standard.

The firm specialises in defamation law and all aspects of entertainment and media law, both contentious and non-contentious.

In addition, the firm is well versed in dealing with all types of large scale commercial litigation, including multi jurisdictional claims, and challenges on human rights grounds against the UK and other governments as well as supra-national institutions. Where necessary it works closely with lawyers outside the UK and has strong links with firms throughout Europe and the US.

Our clients are drawn from countries all over the world. Many are high profile individuals and include heads of state and of government, other politicians, leading businessmen and women and well known celebrities in the fields of entertainment, media and sport. They also include sovereign states, government ministries, charities, multinational corporations and companies of every size. Our media clients encompass the whole industry range, including book, newspaper and magazine publishers, broadcasting organisations and online publishers.

We have a reputation for being determined and thorough in pursuing our clients' objectives and protecting their interests. We aim to understand our clients and their businesses and to give practical, concise advice to enable them to achieve their objectives.

Main Work Areas

• Defamation (libel and slander) and malicious falsehood
• Government and supra national institutional challenges
• Commercial litigation
• Human Rights
• Copy Clearance, publishing and contempt
• MediaAlert - pre-publication advice service
• Privacy, confidential information and trade secrets
• Reputation management (including intellectual property, trade marks, passing off and commercial contracts)
• Advertising and marketing
• Internet law and online services
• Costs advice and litigation

For 24 hour advice, contact one of our duty partners: telephone +44 20 7353 5005

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