'FEARSOME' - and 24 other quotes about Carter-Ruck. It's enough to make you want to give up

saltnpepper wrote:

Hope this helps

sharonl wrote:Feared

Fearsome

Aggressive

Whats wrong with with:

Professional

Successful

Quality?

Tony Bennett wrote:

sharonl wrote:Feared

Fearsome

Aggressive

Whats wrong with with:

Professional

Successful

Quality?

Maybe the first three words appeal much more to the typical bully Carter-Ruck client?

saltnpepper wrote:

Hope this helps

Châtelaine wrote:OT Tony
I've always been "cross" with David for his adultery and planned killing of Bathsheba's husband.

It was indeed a heinous crime. The prophet Nathan gave David a severe telling-off. David realised the seriousness of his crime, repented, and was forgiven.

I've always been "enchanted" by Solomon's wisdom...

Solomon was a wise king and richly blessed. Israel grew amazingly in wealth and power under his rule. But power went to his head, and he fell from grace. His sons fell out, as a result of which Israel became divided: 10 tribes headed north under Jeroboam; the other two tribes (Judah and Benjamin) remained around Jerusalem and became known as 'Judah' = Judaea.

Not sure what these stories tell us.

It's history, which we can all learn from

Gollum wrote:With that kind of reputation I recommend a good lawyer or do they represent themselves?

tigger wrote:

Gollum wrote:With that kind of reputation I recommend a good lawyer or do they represent themselves?

I think the image doesn't fit the quotes so here's a suggestion to add 'muscle' to the banner quotes, this gent reminds me of a CR lawyer, love the glasses!

PeterMac wrote:

Tony Bennett wrote:
...King Solomon.

Is this the same one who advocated chopping a baby in half?
I like the OT. Full of sex and violence.

Tony Bennett wrote:Clicking on Carter-Ruck's website (as you do) [www.carter-ruck.com], in the top right is a box in which, every 8 seconds, a quote about Carter-Ruck appears.

It reminds one a bit of those review quotes that are meant to draw in the crowds to a London theatre.

This sort of thing:

'Stunning...fantastic entertainment '

'Best laugh I've had for ages'

'Sensational - don't miss it' etc.

Anything London theatres can do, Carter-Ruck can do better, it seems.

To save you spending nearly 4 minutes on Carter-Ruck's website, here are the 25 quotes they want the world to see:

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1 London’s best-known and most feared libel lawyers - Daily Mail

2 Fearsome - Sunday Express

3 Britain’s most feared firm of libel lawyers - The Times

4 Britain’s most aggressive libel lawyers - Private Eye

5 Used to winning - Der Spiegel

6 Famously combative - The Daily Mail

7 Undoubtedly the king of claimant defamation - Chambers Guide to the Legal Profession

8 Uber-libel lawyers - The BBC

9 A group of geniuses; incredible panache - Chambers Guide to the Legal Profession

10 Mother of all libel firms - The Guardian

11 Absolutely superb in heavyweight litigation - Legal 500

12 Top libel lawyers - front page of The Sun

13 Top London law firm - The Daily Mail

14 A Rolls-Royce Service - Chambers Guide to the Legal Profession

15 Top drawer - Glasgow Herald

16 Top libel firm - The Independent

17 Famous libel lawyers - The Independent

18 Leading law firm - The Guardian

19 Legendary - Gulf States Newsletter

20 A top firm - The Daily Telegraph

21 One of London’s leading law firms - The Independent

22 Formidable litigation specialists - The Guardian

23 Groundbreaking - The Guardian

24 Leading media lawyers - The Mail on Sunday

25 Celebrated libel firm - The Guardian

PeterMac wrote:

Tony Bennett wrote:
...King Solomon.

Is this the same one who advocated chopping a baby in half ?
I like the OT. Full of sex and violence.

Sugar, himself a litigious little bantam, was not pleased. "I have concerns that the changes being made are too lenient, to the advantage of the printed media," he snarled.

"The one thing alone that is of prime importance to them," he continued, " is money and how much their pockets will be affected." He spoke wistfully that "the days of the Elton John million-pound awards have long gone" and he was underwhelmed that libel awards are now worth about the same as awards for physical damage such as a broken leg or the loss of sight.

Having declared that he himself has sued papers, Sugarpuff said: "Most people, particularly some minor celebrities or, more to the point, politicians, cannot afford to fund a fully fledged defamation case... Only the rich, such as I, can afford to take on the media."

Sugar spoke warmly of no-win-no-fee rules under which the likes of Schillings and Carter-Fuck (sic) extract vast sums for libel work. "Why would a lawyer, with all due respect to lawyers, take on a case... then the ultimate goal for the claimant may be in the region of £150,000?" A mere 150 grand? Pah!

Why should lawyers bother with such piffling settlements? To serve the truth? A laughable notion, plainly.

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The bill received a generally fair wind from their lordships. In the past it has been criticized by former deputy PM Lord Prescott (he of the Tracey Temple affair) and former Labour MP Lord Martin (who so hated the press that he hired Carter-Fuck (sic) to do his PR when he was Speaker). On the day of the debate, the only peer to give Sugar strong support was Labour Lord Triesman, the disgraced former Football Association boss.

Spotless saints, every one of’em!

Kate and Gerry McCann, the couple whose daughter Madeleine went missing in Portugal, have written to the prime minister urging him to abandon his government's plans to alter no-win, no-fee legal agreements.

The couple, making their first public intervention in politics, are among a group of libel reform campaigners and well-known victims of tabloid newspapers who warn that plans to rewrite what are known as conditional fee agreements (CFAs) will ensure that only the rich have access to justice in future.