The Legal 500

Work Department

International law group.

Position

Carter-Ruck’s managing partner, Cameron heads the firm’s international law practice, specialising in litigation and dispute resolution and regulatory matters involving an international or diplomatic context. His clients include a significant number of governments, heads of state and leading political figures from across the world, as well as commercial entities and individuals requiring specialist advice on international issues. In addition to many years conducting litigation in the High Court in London, Cameron has experience of matters proceeding before the United Nations, the ECJ and the ECHR, and Carter-Ruck’s international law group is currently involved in cases that are progressing in the national courts of more than a dozen countries located across the globe. Cameron is himself presently engaged in a number of sanctions-related cases arising out of the events of 9/11 and is also co-ordinating the defence of 9/11-related litigation in the New York District Court. Almost two decades at Carter-Ruck has given Cameron extensive experience of dealing with the UK and international media and he is able to apply the reputation management expertise he has acquired not merely in pursuing claims directly against the media but also in managing media interest in matters involving other parties.

Career

Articled Carter-Ruck; qualified 1992; partner 1995; managing partner 2001.

Member

Law Society; LSLA; Royal Institute of International Affairs (Chatham House); American Society of International Law; British Institute of International and Comparative Law.

Education

Queen Elizabeth’s, Blackburn; The Queen’s College, Oxford (MA Hons 1st Class); The College of Law (CPE distinction, Law Society Finals Hons).

Leisure

English cricket and Welsh rugby.

Practice Areas

Administrative and public law; Defamation and privacy; Public international law