Jon Slattery (Free subscription) | 10/22/2009
Here's a story combining two subjects of major media interest at the moment: Carter-Ruck and the Daily Mail . It was just before Christmas 1997 and I was acting editor of Press Gazette . The fax machine (remember them') beeped into life. The paper chugging out of the fax carried the fearful heading "Peter Carter-Ruck And Partners" - and it wasn't a Christmas...
cearta.ie (Free subscription) | 11/06/2009
If Lady Chatterly’s Lover isn’t obscene, how about Lolita? Yesterday’s Times has a fascinating story about Peter Carter-Ruck’s advice to George Weidenfeld in advance of the UK publication of Vladimir Nabokov’s novel (with some added links): Lolita: how a lawyer’s cunning plan paid off for Vladimir Nabokov With all the brouhaha over Carter-Ruck...
Tony Greenstein's Blog (Free subscription) | 10/25/2009
... inconvenient facts from the public’s gaze. As we saw last week, notorious libel lawyers Peter, Carter, Ruck had actually managed to obtain an injunction from a dozy High Court Judge preventing the Guardian printing the truth about how Trafigura, an oil firm, had deposited poisonous oil sludge in Gambia poisoning and killing thousands of this poor State's inhabitants....
