Adam Tudor
Partner
Highlights
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 Carter-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 multi-national corporations and leading business people, to 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. Adam is currently conducting an appeal in the House of Lords and in late 2008 represented a multi-national corporation in commercial proceedings before the Privy Council.
In libel circles, Adam is best known for representing Kate and Gerry McCann in their libel and privacy complaints. In 2008, he secured unprecedented front page apologies from the Daily Express, Daily Star and their sister Sunday titles, as well as £550,000 in damages for libel. Adam also obtained apologies and £375,000 in libel 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 cases were applied to the search for Madeleine.
During 2006/7 Adam 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. One client received damages of over £225,000.
Adam's first major libel victory was in 2001, when, at his previous firm, he represented (now Sir) Alan Sugar in his successful libel action against the Daily Mail, which resulted in a jury awarding damages of £100,000, the highest jury award that year.
Adam has regularly lectured to the profession and made a number of television and radio appearances, including on Radio 4's "Unreliable Evidence". He has also been named "Lawyer of the Week" in The Times newspaper.
In March 2009 Adam was invited to give evidence at the House of Commons before the Culture, Media and Sport Committee in its inquiry into press standards, privacy and libel.
Email: adam.tudor@carter-ruck.com
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- Adam combines his specialist media/ reputation management work with helping spearhead Carter-Ruck's expanding commercial litigation practice.
- Libel highlights include representing Kate and Gerry McCann in their unprecedented libel complaints against Express Newspapers.
- Broad experience of complex commercial disputes, including in House of Lords.
- Described in Chambers Guide to the Legal Profession as "Sensible and diligent; tough but fair". "Commended for his assiduousness".