Nigel Tait
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Star Individuals : Defamation/Reputation Management
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Provided by Nigel Tait
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Nigel is Carter-Ruck’s Managing Partner and Head of the firm’s Defamation and Media Law department. His practice encompasses reputation, media and privacy and commercial litigation.
REPUTATION, MEDIA AND PRIVACY
Nigel is a leader in this field. He is ranked as one of only two Star individuals in the Defamation and Reputation Management section of Chambers and Partners Client’s Guide to Solicitors
Nigel has secured numerous apologies for clients on newspaper front pages, and on television and radio, many settlements involving damages in six figures, and substantial awards at trial, including the highest ever defamation award to a company.
Nigel has obtained many injunctions – including in the leading case PJS v News Group Newspapers – restraining infringement of his clients’ privacy by the press or former associates. He has prevented the publication of many articles about clients, often by means of a phone call or letter.
Nigel has also acted for many clients who were to be featured on TV news documentaries like Panorama and Dispatches, securing either their complete removal from the programme or the removal of defamatory allegations.
Nigel has worked on four Law Society Committees looking into reforms to libel practice, privacy law and civil procedure. He has spoken on three occasions at the Oxford Union Debating Society on libel and privacy and chairs the annual White Paper defamation and privacy conference.
COMMERCIAL LITIGATION
Nigel has acted in numerous actions for breach of contract, professional negligence, financial mis-selling, breach of trust and breach of fiduciary duty winning tens of millions of pounds for clients in such cases over the last few years.
Nigel has successfully sued banks, pension advisers, and financial advisers in many cases where the clients required a safe or cautious investment but lost money.
Nigel has also obtained injunctions for clients against former employees acting in breach of restrictive covenants or who have used confidential information taken from former employers in setting up their own businesses or working for competitors.
Chambers Review
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Nigel Tait serves as Carter-Ruck's managing partner and also leads the defamation and media law department. He has a wealth of experience advising high-profile individuals and corporate clients on defamation and privacy issues.
Strengths
Provided by Chambers
"Nigel is a great strategist and works tirelessly for his clients."
"Nigel certainly deserves to be recognised as a star."
"He is very knowledgeable and great to work with."
"Nigel is a great strategist and works tirelessly for his clients."
"Nigel certainly deserves to be recognised as a star."
"He is very knowledgeable and great to work with."
Articles, highlights and press releases
6 items provided by Carter-Ruck
Carter-Ruck wins Reputation Management Law Firm of the Year at the Citywealth Magic Circle Awards
Carter-Ruck has been named ‘Reputation Management Law Firm of the Year’ at The Citywealth Magic Circle Awards 2024.
Mirror apologises and pays £75,000 damages to individual over repeated allegations of fraud
Ilian Stoimenov has won his libel claim against the publisher of the Daily Mirror.
The Sun apologises to Susan Hamblin over serious libels
Susan Hamblin has won her libel and data protection claim against the publisher of The Sun.
Rached Ghannouchi secures takedown of four publications by Al Arab and Middle East Online
Rached Ghannouchi (the leader of the Tunisian Ennahdha Party and Speaker of the Tunisian Parliament) has secured the take down of three articles and a video published on various dates in April and May 2020 by Al Arab and Middle East Online.
MailOnline apologises and pays substantial damages to Sand Van Roy for revealing her rape complaint
MailOnline has apologised in the High Court to Sand Van Roy (the Dutch-Belgian actor and former comedian) over revealing her identity as a complainant in a rape case against a French film director (allegations which the individual strongly denies).
RACHEL NICKELL ALLEGATIONS: FORMER POLICE COMMANDER SECURES APOLOGY AND COMPENSATION FROM MIRROR
Mirror Group Newspapers has issued an unreserved apology and agreed to pay substantial compensation and legal costs to former police Commander Roy Ramm, after the Mirror newspaper published false and defamatory allegations about him on its website in March 2018.
Carter-Ruck wins Reputation Management Law Firm of the Year at the Citywealth Magic Circle Awards
Carter-Ruck has been named ‘Reputation Management Law Firm of the Year’ at The Citywealth Magic Circle Awards 2024.
Mirror apologises and pays £75,000 damages to individual over repeated allegations of fraud
Ilian Stoimenov has won his libel claim against the publisher of the Daily Mirror.
The Sun apologises to Susan Hamblin over serious libels
Susan Hamblin has won her libel and data protection claim against the publisher of The Sun.
Rached Ghannouchi secures takedown of four publications by Al Arab and Middle East Online
Rached Ghannouchi (the leader of the Tunisian Ennahdha Party and Speaker of the Tunisian Parliament) has secured the take down of three articles and a video published on various dates in April and May 2020 by Al Arab and Middle East Online.
MailOnline apologises and pays substantial damages to Sand Van Roy for revealing her rape complaint
MailOnline has apologised in the High Court to Sand Van Roy (the Dutch-Belgian actor and former comedian) over revealing her identity as a complainant in a rape case against a French film director (allegations which the individual strongly denies).
RACHEL NICKELL ALLEGATIONS: FORMER POLICE COMMANDER SECURES APOLOGY AND COMPENSATION FROM MIRROR
Mirror Group Newspapers has issued an unreserved apology and agreed to pay substantial compensation and legal costs to former police Commander Roy Ramm, after the Mirror newspaper published false and defamatory allegations about him on its website in March 2018.