Barrister
Ruth specialises in all areas of commercial, employment, human rights, public and sports law. Her cases frequently raise issues of private or public international law.
She acts in the most high profile and complex cases across her practice areas. Examples of recent and current instructions include acting:
- As junior counsel to the Post Office Horizon IT Inquiry;
- For a leading F1 Team defending claims brought by Former CEO/Team Principal in the High Court for constructive dismissal and shares;
- For a leading car manufacturer in group litigation arising out of “Dieselgate”;
- For a premier league football club in ongoing disciplinary proceedings; and
- For the English Football League in an EFL arbitration brought by Cardiff City Football Club arising out of a failure to pay the transfer fee of Emiliano Sala on time.
Ruth is recognized in Legal 500 for administrative law and human rights; employment; and public inquiries and in Chambers & Partners for employment and civil liberties and human rights. She has been described as “a superb advocate”, “a real rising star”, “brilliant in everything she does”, “exceptionally hard-working” and having “superstar quality.”
A member of both the Attorney General’s London B panel and specialist Public International C panel, Ruth has acted and appeared in various domestic courts and tribunals up to and including the Supreme Court, as well as international courts including the European Court of Human Rights and the International Court of Justice. She has experience of acting in arbitrations under the LCIA, ICC and UNCITRAL rules and under specialist sports arbitrations.
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Michael Lee has a broad practice covering a range of Chambers’ areas of work, with a particular focus on employment and commercial matters. He has extensive advocacy experience and regularly appears in a range of courts and tribunals.
Michael is recommended in the employment sections of Chambers and Partners, Legal 500 and Who’s Who Legal. The most recent editions describe him as “a go-to junior for employment litigation and associated high court work” and as a “go-to counsel, who is hugely responsive and great with clients… always well prepared, never misses a trick, and his advocacy is strong”, whilst recognising that “Michael has brilliant legal knowledge” and “is excellent tactically and very good with clients.”
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David’s practice encompasses the full ambit of media, entertainment and information law. He has appeared in several of the highest profile defamation and privacy actions of recent years and consistently acts on behalf of leading firms of solicitors in the field and for a large number of the most prominent media organisations and companies (including Associated Newspapers, Google, Facebook, Guardian News & Media and Times Newspapers).
He is equally highly regarded for his work on data protection and freedom of information matters where he has represented public and regulatory bodies and the media in cases heard before both the courts and the Information Tribunal. He also holds a very substantial practice in the fields of public and entertainment law, where he regularly advises the media regulator, Ofcom, and has acted for the United Kingdom Government in the successful defence of the two most important UK media law cases to reach the European Court of Human Rights in recent years.
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Hannah’s practice covers the full ambit of media and information law, including:
- Defamation
- Malicious falsehood
- Privacy
- Breach of confidence
- Data protection (including data breach and group litigation)
- Harassment
Hannah has broad-ranging experience across each of those practice areas and is particularly well placed to deal with actions involving both data/privacy and reputational issues. She has considerable experience in group litigation claims and has acted in large scale commercial actions involving data protection, privacy and defamation. Having previously worked for a leading communications agency, Hannah also has a keen interest in non-contentious reputation management and strategy work. This includes press and social media monitoring on behalf of both individuals and corporations in the public eye.
Case highlights include:
- A Supreme Court appearance in a landmark privacy action concerning the right of arrestees in child sex offence cases to remain anonymous (Khuja v Times Newspapers Ltd);
- A Court of Appeal appearance in Lachaux v AOL (UK) Ltd, which gave rise to the first appellate decision on the ‘serious harm test’ under section 1 of the Defamation Act 2013;
- Acting for the largest group of Defendants between 2014 and 2020 in multi-million-pound litigation concerning the alleged blacklisting of construction workers (The Construction Industry Vetting Information Group Litigation);
- Continuing to act for English water companies against restitution claims for over £150 million in fees paid for information which it is now said ought to have been provided for free under the Environmental Information Regulations 2004 (The Environmental Information Regulations Litigation);
- Acting for the Defendant in Farley v Equiniti, which is set to give rise to the leading Court of Appeal authority on the existence and applicability of a threshold of seriousness in UK data protection law.
Hannah was awarded a 2012 Pegasus Scholarship to work at the New York offices of Levine Sullivan Koch & Schulz LLP, where she gained both a broad grounding in American media law and experience in advising on cross-jurisdictional issues.
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Remi Reichhold is a public law and public international law specialist, acting for and advising national governments, government departments, public bodies and corporate entities. He represents clients in the First-tier and Upper Tribunal, County Court, High Court and Court of Appeal. Remi regularly acts for States before the International Court of Justice, the International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea and international arbitral tribunals.
In addition to Remi’s expertise in public law and public international law, he also has significant experience in information law and data protection, police law, inquests and sports arbitration.
Before joining chambers in private practice, Remi spent seven years working as Research Associate to Professor Philippe Sands KC. He assisted Professor Sands in his capacity as arbitrator in more than a dozen investment treaty claims under ICSID and UNCITRAL rules.
Remi has been appointed to the Attorney General’s civil panel (C Panel). He accepts instructions in all his specialist areas, including on a Direct Access basis.
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Leo accepts instructions in all areas of Chambers practice, with a particular focus on financial regulation, employment law, information law, regulatory law and public law.
He is ranked in Legal 500 2023 as a Tier 1 Rising Star in Local Government. He is “very able and provides sound, user-friendly advice”, and his “sophistication, advocacy and commercial awareness and vision are strong”. Clients also say that he “is forensic and gets into the detail and history of matters, particularly where they concern technical legal points or matters of statutory interpretation”.
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Richard is a litigator and advocate, both in the High Court and Employment Tribunals, as well as in appeals and arbitrations.
He has a wide-ranging practice, acting for individuals and for businesses. Recent cases encompass the duties of senior employees, directors, and shareholders; confidential information and restraint of trade; complex discrimination and whistleblowing claims; penalty clauses; and professional negligence by solicitors.
He is regularly involved in all stages of a claim, from initial advice and pleading, interim applications, mediations to speedy trials and appeals.
In the Who’s Who Legal UK Bar Report 2019, Richard was identified as one of the 7 most highly regarded silks in employment law, adding that he “gains extensive praise as ‘a real star of the Bar’, and an ‘absolutely outstanding, confident, commercial and diligent advocate’.”
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