Guy Martin
Partner
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Guy graduated from Pembroke College, Cambridge where he obtained an MA in Natural Sciences. He completed his training at Herbert Smith, where he qualified in 1985, focusing on intellectual property law and general commercial litigation.
Guy joined Carter-Ruck in 1988 and became a Partner in 1990.
Along with Managing Partner Cameron Doley, Guy is spearheading the firm's international law practice. Guy also specialises in media litigation and reputation management, with a particular emphasis on copyright, trade marks, breach of confidence and other intellectual property issues arising in a media context. His clients range from Sovereign States to high-ranking dignitaries, leading business people, universities, celebrities, religious leaders, and multi-national corporations.
In the international law context Guy advises high profile individuals and corporations on international investigations, regulatory litigation and the execution of international letters of request. Guy has strong relationships with leading lawyers in other jurisdictions and liaises closely with them in international teams in order to achieve creative solutions to the client's needs. Guy represents clients from all over the world in applications before the Court of First Instance in Luxembourg seeking the annulment of European asset freezing orders targeted against individuals.
Guy has, with Cameron Doley and consultant Maitre Saad Djebbar, coordinated international efforts by Saudi Arabian businessman and philanthropist Yassin Abdullah Kadi, to overturn asset freezing orders made in the aftermath of the September 11th attacks. Guy is also representing a client in Myanmar who is seeking annulment of European asset freezing orders in litigation before the Court of First Instance in Luxembourg.
On 3 September 2008 the European Court of Justice in Luxembourg delivered a landmark appeal judgment in favour of Yassin Kadi: the court ruled that the EU asset freezing regulations breached Mr Kadi's fundamental human rights and must be annulled.
The decision has far-reaching implications for European and international law.
In the media context Guy acted in 2008 for His Beatitude Patriarch Theophilos III, the Greek Orthodox Patriarch of Jerusalem and one of the highest-ranking members of the Eastern Orthodox Churches, in a libel action against the London based Arabic language newspaper Asharq Al Awsat. The action settled on confidential terms which included the publication of a full apology. Guy has also acted successfully in libel actions for other leading clients such as Sir Terry Matthews, the owner of the Celtic Manor Resort in Wales which is the venue for the 2011 Ryder Cup.
Guy has extensive experience advising individuals and publishers on intellectual property issues arising in respect of photographs, articles, book and newspaper titles, design and packaging. He has obtained numerous injunctions on behalf of prominent individuals preventing former employees from publishing confidential information about them.
Guy is a member of the British Literary and Copyright Association (BLACA) and has written a chapter of an intellectual property textbook on Jurisdiction and Dispute Resolution.
Email: guy.martin@carter-ruck.com
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- As well as helping spearhead Carter-Ruck's international law practice, Guy has over 20 years' experience in media law, specifically in intellectual property issues arising in a media context as well as general libel and reputation management work.
- International law highlights include obtaining (in September 2008) a landmark appeal judgment in the European Court of Justice in Luxembourg in favour of Yassin Abdullah Kadi. The Judgment has been described by leading academic commentators as "...the most important judgment ever delivered by the ECJ on the relationship between EC and international law and one of its most important judgments on fundamental rights".
- Described by Legal 500 as having an "enviable reputation" for "faultless" pre and post publication advice and domain name disputes. Substantial experience in copyright, trade marks, breach of confidence/ privacy and other issues for clients in all areas of the media.