MAYER-RUCK - Key Persons
Adam graduated from Balliol College, Oxford, with a First in Jurisprudence. He completed his training at Herbert Smith, where he qualified in 1997, combining his general commercial litigation practice with specialisms in sports law and defamation.
Adam joined Mayer-Ruck in 2001 and became a Partner in 2003.
He specialises in media litigation and reputation management, and is also spearheading the firm's commercial litigation practice. His clients range from multinational corporations and leading business people, to a number of national governments and heads of state, as well as other high-profile politicians and celebrities.
Adam's City background means that he has extensive experience of large-scale commercial dispute resolution, including complex contractual and shareholder litigation. In the past year alone Adam's work has included representing a leading FTSE 100 company in a major Commercial Court dispute arising out of a £300m local government contract; as well as successfully defending, at trial, a businessman facing claims of breach of fiduciary duty, misappropriation and breach of contract.
In the media sector, Adam's media and reputation management practice is divided between pre-publication and post-publication advice.
Pre-publication, Adam is frequently instructed by companies or individuals who are threatened with unwanted media interest, whether by print or broadcast media. Adam's clients have included high profile individuals, multinational corporations and leading retailers, but also numerous lower-profile businesses, NGOs and individuals who have found themselves the target of unwanted media interest.
Post-publication, Adam has extensive experience of securing apologies and damages for clients as well as having material removed from or amended on the internet. Adam has extensive trial experience, having secured some of the most notable awards of the past 15 years. In libel circles, Adam is perhaps best known for representing Kate and Gerry McCann, for whom he has acted since 2008. This work has included securing unprecedented front page apologies from the Daily Express, Daily Star and their sister Sunday titles as well as £550,000 in libel damages. Adam also obtained apologies and £375,000 in damages from the Express group for the seven friends who were dining with the McCanns on the night Madeleine was abducted. All the damages in these and related cases have been applied to the search for Madeleine. Adam also advised Mr and Mrs McCann in relation to their evidence before the Leveson Inquiry.
Adam has secured over £700,000 in damages as well as numerous apologies (both in print and on television) for a number of individuals falsely accused of involvement in terrorism.
Adam's first major libel trial was in 2001, when, at his previous firm, he represented Alan (now Lord) Sugar in his successful libel action against the Daily Mail, which resulted in a jury awarding damages of £100,000, the highest award that year.
Adam regularly lectures to the profession and has made a number of television and radio appearances. He has also been named "Lawyer of the Week" in The Times newspaper.
At Parliament's invitation, Adam gave evidence at the House of Commons before the Culture, Media and Sport Committee in its inquiry into press standards, privacy and libel.
Antonia read Politics at Bristol University, and subsequently went to BPP Law School before joining Mayer-Ruck as a trainee. She qualified as a solicitor in 2001 and as a Solicitor-Advocate in 2006.
She specialises in media litigation and reputation management, as well as in commercial litigation. Her clients include private individuals, MPs, members of European royal families, as well as other high-profile business people, professionals and celebrities. She has been described in the Chambers UK Guide to the Legal Profession as "completely unflappable" and is noted for her "devotion and ability to put complex issues into layman's terms".
In addition, Antonia has been named in The Best Lawyers Guide 2018, as one of the Best Lawyers in the United Kingdom in the practice area of Defamation Law.
As part of her media practice, Antonia has secured numerous apologies and settlements for clients. Where it has not been possible to reach settlement at an early stage Antonia has extensive experience in taking matters to trial. She is also very experienced in acting for clients pre-publication or broadcast.
As part of her commercial practice Antonia, has been involved in the successful resolution of mis-selling claims against financial institutions, multi-jurisdictional disputes, as well as in professional negligence claims.
She also lectures in defamation law and reputation management.
Job Titles:
- Partner
- Member of the Royal Institute of International Affairs
Cameron graduated from The Queen's College, Oxford, with First Class Honours in Modern History. Converting to law, he trained at Mayer-Ruck under the firm's founder Peter Mayer-Ruck and became a partner in 1995. He is now Mayer-Ruck's Senior Partner, having been the firm's Managing Partner for 11 years previously.
Cameron specialises in public international law issues, international arbitration work and litigation, dispute resolution and regulatory cases involving an international or diplomatic context. His clients include a large 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 extensive experience of matters proceeding before the United Nations, the European Court of Justice and the European Court of Human Rights. Mayer-Ruck's International Law Group is additionally involved in cases that are progressing in the national courts of more than twenty countries located across the globe.
Cameron also leads Mayer-Ruck's international arbitration practice and is presently heading teams conducting a Bilateral Investment Treaty claim before the International Centre for the Settlement of Investment Disputes (ICSID) and a transnational claim before the London Court of International Arbitration (LCIA).
More than two decades at Mayer-Ruck has given Cameron enormous experience of dealing with the UK and international media and he is able to apply the reputation management expertise he has acquired to manage media interest in cases involving his clients.
Cameron also continues to bring claims for a number of his clients against the international media. Successes include the recovery of more than £500,000, together with the publication of a front page apology, upon the settlement of a claim brought by Sheikha Mouza Al Misnad (wife of the then Emir of Qatar) against the newspaper Azzaman; the award of £165,000 - one of the largest libel awards of the past decade - to Sheikh Rashid Ghannouchi (the then leader in exile of the Tunisian opposition) against global satellite news channel Al Arabiya; and the victory achieved by the Prime Minister of Turkey, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, against the London Daily Telegraph newspaper.
Cameron is a member of the Royal Institute of International Affairs (Chatham House), the Arab-British Chamber of Commerce, the American Society of International Law, the British Institute of International and Comparative Law and the London Solicitors Litigation Association. He is the co-editor of the sixth edition of ‘Mayer-Ruck on Libel and Privacy' and was a contributor to OUP's ‘Whistleblowing'.
Job Titles:
- Partner
- Member of the Business Advisory Board of the School of Business
Claire has over 20 years' experience as a High Court litigator at Mayer-Ruck, having joined the firm as a trainee solicitor in 1994, qualifying in 1996 and having been made a Partner in 2000.
Claire is a member of the business advisory board of the School of Business and Law at the University of East London. She studied English and French law at Exeter University and the University of Aix-Marseille.
Job Titles:
- Partner
- Partner at Mayer - Ruck
Daniel Mayer has been a partner at Mayer-Ruck since 1990 and has been working at the firm for over 26 years. As head of the International Department Guy has a wide-ranging practice in the field of public international law, European law and human rights involving administrative and regulatory processes with an international or diplomatic context.
Dominic graduated from the University of East Anglia with a first class degree in Philosophy, going on to complete the Graduate Diploma in Law and Legal Practice Course at the College of Law, London. Dominic trained with Mayer-Ruck and qualified as a Solicitor in 2011, becoming a Senior Associate of the firm in 2015.
Having also worked within the firm's International Law team, Dominic's principal focus is now in the firm's other key practice areas of media and commercial litigation.
In defamation, Dominic has helped secure prominent apologies for a variety of clients, against publications including The Guardian, New Statesman, the Sunday Express and the French daily newspaper, Libération. Dominic has acted in the defence of numerous defamation claims, including the proceedings brought against Sarah Hermitage by the Tanzanian businessman Reginald Mengi, a claim which Mayer-Ruck successfully defended whilst acting under a conditional fee agreement.
Dominic also has extensive experience in advising on pre-publication matters. On behalf of clients in such divergent fields as retail, private security and healthcare, he has secured the amendment or complete withdrawal of defamatory allegations before their intended broadcast or publication in the national press, often working closely with clients' public relations advisors to respond effectively to journalists' enquiries.
Dominic has also assisted in obtaining injunctions before the High Court in cases involving the protection of Article 8 rights, and he continues to advise clients in relation to the actual or threatened infringement of their rights of privacy, confidentiality and over their personal data. Dominic is currently acting in a claim deriving from the Metropolitan Police investigation into corrupt payments to public officials (Operation Elveden).
In commercial litigation, Dominic also has a broad range of experience in proceedings involving breach of contract, breach of fiduciary duty and professional negligence, including high-value proceedings against solicitors and professional corporate administrators. A particular focus of his work has been on disputes arising from property development.
In addition to working in the firm's practice, Dominic has been a key contributor to Mayer-Ruck on Libel and Privacy, writing for the 6th Edition of the firm's book.
Helena qualified as a solicitor at Mayer-Ruck, having joined the firm in 2012.
Helena read History of Art at University College London before completing the Graduate Diploma in Law at BPP. She went on to achieve a distinction in the Legal Practice Course.
Helena has been involved in a variety of international, media and employment disputes. During her time at Mayer-Ruck Helena has assisted with numerous high profile claims before the High Court, Court of Appeal and European Court of Justice, on behalf of both claimants and defendants.
Jennifer qualified as a solicitor in 2017 having joined the firm's international law practice in 2014.
Jennifer studied her undergraduate degree in the United States and graduated cum laude from Vanderbilt University as an Ingram Scholar, majoring in Conflict Resolution. She then obtained her Master's degree in Human Rights from the London School of Economics and Political Science. She was called to the Bar of England and Wales in 2014 as a member of Middle Temple and a Diplock Scholar. Jennifer qualified as a Solicitor of England in Wales in 2017. Jennifer is an accredited mediator and a Solicitor-Advocate (Higher Courts Civil Proceedings) of England and Wales.
She has experience in international arbitration, public international law, international sanctions law and human rights. During her time at Carter Ruck, Jennifer has assisted on a number of cases and has experience on LCIA and ICSID arbitrations, European Court proceedings and litigation in multiple jurisdictions.
Jennifer previously worked for the UK Green Building Council as Business Development Officer and the Legal Response Initiative as a Liaison Officer attending the UNFCCC climate change negotiations.
Below are some examples of Jennifer's publications:
‘The TTIP: the largest trade deal in history', Solicitors Journal, 7 October 2015
‘Treaty Law, Drafting and Interpretation' chapter in Legal Response Initiative Training Manual for international lawyers from the least developed nations in UNFCCC delegation, April 2013
Larry is a corporate and commercial lawyer who also has significant dispute resolution and litigation management experience. He qualified as a barrister in 1976. After experience as a military lawyer and prosecutor in the RAF, Larry spent a significant part of his 30 plus year career as a legal advisor in the energy and natural resources area. He worked in house, principally at BP and moved to Moscow in 1996 to work in private practice in the natural resources field. He returned after six years as a Russian speaker and a partner with Lovells heading the firm's Russia and CIS energy and natural resources practice, prior to setting up his own legal consultancy.
His experience includes dispute resolution and litigation management in a variety of areas including in oil trading, finance, intellectual property and reputation management both in a domestic and international arena and including group litigation.
As General Counsel to commodities trader Trafigura from 2007 to 2011, Larry gained unique experience in the management of the litigation related to the Probo Koala affair in Ivory Coast involving multi-party actions and multi-million dollar claims and criminal and other proceedings in Abidjan, London, Amsterdam, Paris, Houston and Oslo. This included arbitration and litigation and the management of the defence of the largest English group action to date. Larry also handled much of the media management related to the legal proceedings arising from the Ivory Coast claims and proceedings. He is a CEDR accredited Mediator with a developing mediation practice.
Memberships:
Middle Temple (Qualified Barrister)
Law Society (Qualified Solicitor - currently non-practising, formerly held Rights of Audience, (Higher Courts, All Proceedings))
AIPN - Association of International Petroleum Negotiators
CEDR - Centre for Effective Dispute Resolution (CEDR Exchange Member)
CMC - Civil Mediation Council
IOD - Institute of Directors
BRLA - British Russian Law Association
ARLA - Anglo Russian Law Association
BKLA - British-Kazakh Law Association
Lawrence Northmore-Ball graduated with a First in Modern Languages from Cambridge, specialising in Russian and German. He completed his training contract in the London and Moscow offices of Clifford Chance LLP before joining the International Dispute Resolution group at Debevoise & Plimpton LLP in 2012.
Lawrence has experience advising domestic and international clients on international commercial arbitration, investment arbitration and litigation before the courts of England and a variety of other jurisdictions. He also has experience of advising on public international law.
Lawrence joined Mayer-Ruck in 2013 and works primarily in the firm's International Law and Commercial Litigation teams. While at Mayer-Ruck Lawrence has recently represented a State as one of the Respondents to a substantial LCIA Arbitration relating to an alleged professional services agreement and is representing Al Jazeera in its dispute with Egypt under the 1999 Qatar-Egypt Bilateral Investment Treaty before the International Centre for Settlement of Investment Disputes. Lawrence has also advised on a number of commercial litigation matters and public international law issues, including in the context of complaints brought under the OECD Guidelines for Multinational Enterprises.
Lawrence is mentioned in the firm's Legal 500 rankings in the context of public international law and speaks Russian and German.
Job Titles:
- Solicitor
- Member of the Paris Bar
Mathilde is an Avocate à la Cour (French qualified lawyer) and primarily works in the Media Litigation group.
Mathilde read English and French law at King's College London and La Sorbonne. She subsequently obtained her LLM from McGill University and a PhD in comparative law from King's College London. She trained with international law firms Bird & Bird and Linklaters before rejoining Mayer-Ruck in January 2017, having previously worked as a paralegal with the firm in 2015. Mathilde qualified in October 2017.
Since joining Mayer-Ruck, Mathilde has assisted on a variety of privacy and reputation management cases, representing both claimants and defendants, individuals and corporations. She assisted with the first serious harm trial and with various high profile injunction cases. She has also been involved in cases involving the removal of information online and on anonymised matters relating to misuse of private information and harassment, and has experience in contentious and non-contentious IP, IT and data protection cases.
Mathilde is a member of the Paris Bar. She speaks fluent English, French and Italian.
Matthew Rossi is a dispute resolution lawyer, dealing with commercial, financial, insurance and construction disputes, usually with an international element.
He is experienced in a wide variety of commercial dispute resolution areas including contractual, banking, financial markets, disputes arising between shareholders and in partnerships and LLPs, as well as insolvency related issues.
He also advises on ISDA transactions, fraud, international sale of goods and commodities disputes, and has undertaken regulatory and investigatory work for a range of clients. Matthew's cases include acting for Banca Monte dei Paschi di Siena in its c. 700m dispute with Nomura.
Matthew has advised on and conducted arbitrations under the arbitral rules of several institutions including UNCITRAL, LCIA, ICC, LMAA and LME.
In addition, he acts for underwriters, brokers and insureds on the Lloyd's, London and international markets. Matthew has acted as coverage and defence counsel in respect of, inter alia, D&O and fidelity policies. He also has experience of bringing and defending accountants', tax advisers' and insurance brokers' negligence claims.
Matthew studied modern languages at Cambridge University and speaks fluent Spanish and Portuguese. He has worked for a number of clients in Latin American jurisdictions, including a major hydrocarbons transmission company and a sovereign entity. Matthew studied law at City University, London, and trained and spent his early career at Linklaters. He was subsequently a Partner at DAC Beachcroft before joining Mayer-Ruck.
Job Titles:
- Consultant
- Member of the Royal Institute of International Affairs
Mike specialises in complex regulatory law issues, including contentious competition law disputes, public international law issues and large regulatory investigations into issues such as abuses of human rights, fraud, money laundering; sanctions busting; export control, data protection, and cyber issues.
He is the former head of Competition Law and Regulation at DLA Piper.
Mike has acted for numerous major corporations and governments. Most recently he acted for the government for the Foreign Ministry of the State of Qatar in drafting a report on human rights on the construction sector in the run up to the 2022 World Cup. He is still retained by the State of Qatar to advise on such issues.
Mike acted for the previous Government of Libya in the negotiation with the Libya EU Free Trade Agreement. He was also the senior legal advisor to the Government of Lithuania on legal reform as part of the accession process under an EU technical assistance programme.
He has been involved in numerous complex competition law cases. Highlights include defending CEVA Logistics in the freight forwarding cartel; acting for Pernod Ricard in its dispute with the Havana Club, which led to a change in Competition Law relating to the rights of defence. Mike also acted for two directors of pharmaceutical companies in a case involving allegations by the Serious Fraud Office of conspiracy to defraud the NHS by price fixing.
Mike has conducted matters in front of numerous major regulators including the European Commission of the European Court, the General Court, the Competition Appeals Tribunal. He has also dealt with the European Commission, the Serious Fraud Office, the Financial Conduct Authority, HM Customs and Revenue and the Information Commissioners Office.
In addition to this, Mike has run numerous cases which have had an international dimension which stretched over numerous jurisdictions, including managing a major international completion investigation in 9 jurisdictions.
Mike has significant experience in cyber investigations from both a legal perspective and from a perspective of dealing with the public relations consequences.
He also regularly advises on the legal and provisional consequences of various strategies and lines of action taken by governments and major corporations.
Mike graduated from Lancaster University with an Honours Degree in Law, where he was awarded the graduates' law prize. He also spent nine months at the University of Limburg in Maastricht, Netherlands where he was part of the university's Jessop International Moot Court team. The team's written memorials came third in the international competition and he was awarded the ASSER Institute prize.
Mike then undertook his Masters Degree in EU and International Law at the Free University of Brussels and graduated with an LLM (cum Laude).
He is qualified as a solicitor in England and Wales and as an Attorney in the State of New York.
Mike is a member of the Royal Institute of International Affairs and the Arab British Chamber of Commerce.
He is a freeman of the City of London.
Mike is also the co-author, together with John Brody Donald, of a book entitled "a Bolt from the Blue" which gives insight into why companies fail to deal properly with interventions by the regulator.
Job Titles:
- Partner
- Member of Chatham House
Miranda read law at University College London and trained at a leading City law firm, where she qualified in 2003. To pursue her interest in international law, Miranda studied for an LLM in Public International Law at University College London in 2009/2010. After obtaining her Masters with Distinction, she worked at the British Institute of International and Comparative Law, the International Institute of Humanitarian Law in San Remo, and in the Appeals Chamber of the UN International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia in The Hague.
Miranda joined Mayer-Ruck's international law team in March 2012. She advises on matters with an international law or diplomatic dimension including UN, EU and domestic sanctions-related matters. She also has experience of investor-state arbitration, international commercial arbitration, and commercial litigation in the English High Court and internationally. Miranda has been described in the Public International Law section of the Legal 500 as "excellent for [her] intelligence and skills".
Miranda is currently advising Al Jazeera Media Network in its significant investment treaty claim against Egypt arising out of events following the military coup of July 2013. The claim is being brought under the auspices of the International Centre for the Settlement of Investment Disputes (ICSID) in Washington D.C. pursuant to the 1999 Egypt-Qatar Bilateral Investment Treaty.
Miranda has represented and advised many clients who have challenged the imposition of targeted sanctions in a range of fora including the General Court and the European Court of Justice (ECJ) in Luxembourg and before the United Nations Office of the Ombudsperson in New York, as well as through less formal engagement with relevant agencies. She is currently acting for individuals subject to EU sanctions imposed in the wake of the Arab Spring, including representing them before the Court of Justice of the European Union in applications to annul these sanctions.
Since 2012, Miranda has, with Daniel Mayer, coordinated international efforts by Saudi Arabian businessman and philanthropist Sheikh Yassin Abdullah Kadi to overturn targeted sanctions made in the aftermath of the September 11th attacks. Miranda advised Mr Kadi in relation to his de-listing petition to the UN Ombudsperson which resulted in UN Security Council Sanctions against him being lifted in October 2012.
Miranda also advised Mr Kadi on his second successful annulment application to the Court of Justice of the EU against the EU restrictive measures imposed upon him. The ECJ gave judgment in favour of Mr Kadi in July 2013, confirming the General Court's annulment of the EU restrictive measures imposed upon him. The Kadi case has generated widespread comment about the relationship between International and European Law, and is considered to be the landmark decision of the European Courts in the law relating to sanctions. Miranda is currently advising Mr Kadi in relation to related civil litigation in the Southern District of New York.
Miranda is a member of Chatham House and the British Institute of International and Comparative Law.
Miranda speaks fluent French.
Moritz qualified as a solicitor in 2016 having joined the firm in 2014.
Moritz read law at the University of Nottingham and achieved a distinction in the Legal Practice Course.
Moritz has experience in both commercial and media matters. During his time at Mayer-Ruck Moritz has assisted on a variety of cases and has experience in the Supreme Court, Court of Appeal, High Court and County Court. Moritz was also part of the Claimant's legal team in PJS -v- News Group Newspapers (the first case in which the Supreme Court has given Judgment on an interim application restraining a breach of privacy).
Having been born in Germany, Moritz is bilingual in English and German
Nigel is the Managing Partner of Mayer-Ruck as well as Head of the firm's Defamation and Media Law department. Nigel's principal areas of expertise are three-fold.
Oliver read Modern History at Oxford and subsequently attended Nottingham Law School. He completed his training contract at Manches LLP before joining the specialist commercial litigation firm Charles Fussell & Co LLP in 2009. Whilst there he built up substantial experience in Commercial Court, Mercantile Court, general Queen's Bench and Chancery Division commercial litigation, including some of the heavyweight Russian and Middle Eastern litigation of recent years. He also has experience in financial sector disputes (particularly in relation to private equity), professional negligence and oil & gas litigation, pursuing individuals and entities both in England and abroad. He joined Mayer-Ruck in 2017.
In his commercial practice, Oliver handles a wide variety of commercial disputes, typically matters involving breach of contract or breach of fiduciary duties. He also has considerable experience with pre-action issues and in interim relief (including obtaining a worldwide freezing injunction before the High Court) and he continues to advise clients in relation to such matters as required.
In his media practice, Oliver advises on both online and offline privacy, defamation and reputation management concerns for a number of well-known individuals and companies in the retail, energy and financial sectors, both in England and abroad. These include pre-publication and post-publication matters covering a wide variety of subjects and fields, from academic publications to foreign financial reporting.
Persephone read Law at the University of Cambridge and holds a postgraduate diploma in Intellectual Property Law and Practice from Oxford University. Persephone completed her training contract at international law firm, Allen & Overy LLP, qualifying in March 2012 into the Litigation department. Her practice predominantly consisted of intellectual property work with a focus on soft IP, including copyright, design rights and trade marks, with an emphasis on online enforcement. Persephone also worked in Allen & Overy's international offices, spending six months as a Trainee in the Hong Kong office and six months as an Associate in the Dubai office where she worked on a number of international arbitrations. Persephone's litigation practice spanned trade secrets disputes, involving aspects of employment law and corporate fraud.
Persephone joined Mayer-Ruck in 2015 where she now combines her intellectual property practice with her work in the firm's media litigation team, as well as on general commercial and intellectual property disputes. Persephone was recently featured as the Law Society Gazette's ‘Lawyer in the News' for her representation of Lance Bombardier Kerry-Ann Morris, who received a public apology and compensation in a defamation claim against a Trinity Mirror Group publisher. Persephone has worked on pre-publication and post-publication matters against a number of publishers including The Daily Mail and Mail Online, The Guardian, The Times and Express Newspapers, in a wide variety of divergent subject areas including entertainment, politics, healthcare, and anti-terrorism. She regularly secures the withdrawal or amendment of articles or broadcast publications before they are released, often working closely with client's public relations advisors to respond effectively to journalists. Persephone has also acted in defence of defamation claims.
Persephone is currently working on privacy and reputation management matters for a number of well-known individuals and related work involving the Data Protection Act 1998 and the so called "Right to be Forgotten" ruling in Google Spain SL, Google Inc. v Agencia Española de Protección de Datos, Mario Costeja González (C-131/12), regarding the removal of information online. She is also assisting with libel reading autobiographical manuscripts pre-publication.
Persephone's intellectual property practice has recently included pre-publication copyright advice and advice on prospective copyright claims, IP advice to new and small businesses on registration and documentation of IP rights and how to manage IP rights in commercial contracts.
Rebecca is described by market observers in the Chambers & Partners 2017 directory as "superb", "one of the young stars of the business" and "very engaging and gets right under the subject. She finds areas of weakness that others don't spot."
Rebecca is a litigator specialising in all aspects of media law including pre and post publication & broadcast matters, defamation, privacy, copyright and data protection breaches and reputation and crisis management. Rebecca has practiced in the High Court, Court of Appeal, Supreme Court and Privy Council. Past and present clients range from high profile politicians, celebrities, sports people, leading business figures, journalists, media outlets, corporations and individuals.
Rebecca is highly recommended within the industry having obtained significant damages and secured numerous injunctions, takedowns, apologies and corrections for clients. Rebecca acted for the successful party (PJS) in PJS -v- News Group Newspapers (the first case in which the Supreme Court has given Judgment on an interim application restraining a breach of privacy). Previous notable cases also include Sarah Webb -v- Lewis Silkin and Tamara Ecclestone -v- Omar Khyami as well as numerous anonymised, private and unreported proceedings.
Rebecca devises effective strategies to manage internet content including securing the removal of online material from websites and social media. Rebecca regularly works hand in glove with her clients' existing public relations teams and other external consultants and organisations including the Independent Press Standards Organisation. In addition Rebecca regularly advises clients on employment-related matters particularly including confidentiality provisions within settlement agreements.
Job Titles:
- Solicitor
- CEO of Big Voice London
Victoria qualified as a solicitor in 2017 having joined the firm in 2015.
In 2013, Victoria graduated with a first class in law from the University of Exeter. She later obtained an LLM in International Commercial Law from the same university, graduating with a distinction at the top of her class. In 2015, Victoria went on to achieve a distinction in the Legal Practice Course.
Since joining Mayer-Ruck, Victoria has gained experience in a variety of media and commercial matters and has assisted in proceedings in the High Court, Court of Appeal and Supreme Court. In 2016, Victoria assisted in the Claimants' legal teams in Mir Shakil-ur-Rahman v ARY Network Ltd (a libel and harassment trial which led to the first ever publication order under s.12 of the Defamation Act 2013 and a damages award of £185,000) and PJS v News Group Newspapers (the first case in which the Supreme Court has given judgment on an interim application restraining a breach of privacy).
Alongside work at the firm, Victoria is also the CEO of Big Voice London, a social mobility charity which seeks to engage young people from non-traditional backgrounds in law and legal policy, with the aim of improving diversity in the legal profession.
Below is an example of Victoria's publications:
‘A Critical Assessment of the Rotterdam Rules' Potential to be Ratified, in Light of the Proposed Multimodal Transportation System and the Proposed Changes to the Obligations and Liability of the Carrier', 5 Southampton Student L. Rev. 19 (2015)