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Paul Foot, 7 March 1991

Memoirs of a Libel Lawyer 
by Peter CarterRuck.
Weidenfeld, 293 pp., £20, November 1990, 0 297 81022 7
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... will be full whatever the result. No one has made more money from this branch of the law than Peter Carter-Ruck, so I opened his book eagerly to find some answers to questions which have always puzzled me. What, to start with, is the philosophy, the raison d’être of the law of libel? Mr ...

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Peter Geoghegan: Libel Tourism, 16 March 2023

... from the misuse of our courts’. Even ascertaining how much law firms are making can be hard: Carter-Ruck is a partnership, not a company, so doesn’t have to publish any accounts. When an openDemocracy reporter asked about its profits he received an email marked ‘Private and confidential. Not for publication.’ The ...

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