Cameron is Carter-Ruck’s Head of International Law.  He specialises in Public International Law, International Arbitration and Litigation, Dispute Resolution and Regulatory cases involving an international or diplomatic context and high-profile media cases.

Cameron is Carter-Ruck’s Head of International Law.  He specialises in Public International Law, International Arbitration and Litigation, Sanctions, Dispute Resolution and Regulatory cases involving an international or diplomatic context and high-profile media cases.

Cameron was the firm’s Senior Partner from 2012 to 2026, having been its Managing Partner for 11 years before that. He trained at Carter-Ruck under the firm’s founder Peter Carter-Ruck and became a partner in 1995. Cameron graduated from The Queen’s College, Oxford, with First Class Honours in Modern History before converting to law.

His clients include a large number of governments, heads of state and leading political figures from across the world as well as commercial entities and individuals requiring specialist advice on international issues.

In addition to many years conducting litigation in the High Court in London, Cameron has extensive experience of matters proceeding before the United Nations, the International Criminal Court, the European Court of Justice and the European Court of Human Rights as well as under the auspices of ICSID, the LCIA, the ICC and other arbitral bodies, due to his role leading Carter-Ruck’s international arbitration practice.

Cameron also heads Carter-Ruck’s highly regarded sanctions practice, which has successfully represented numerous clients in challenges against their designation by the United Nations, European Union, United States, United Kingdom and others, including in a number of landmark cases such as those brought on behalf of Sheikh Yassin Kadi following his listing by the UN, EU and UK.

More than three decades at Carter-Ruck has given Cameron enormous experience of dealing with the UK and international media and he is able to apply the reputation management expertise he has acquired to deal with media interest in cases involving his clients.

Cameron continues to bring claims for a number of his clients against the international media. He has also represented Al Jazeera Media Network in both legal and regulatory matters for many years. Cameron’s team has also filed papers with the International Criminal Court (ICC) in The Hague seeking investigations into the killing of renowned journalist Shireen Abu Akleh and a number of her colleagues by the Israeli military and the prosecution of those responsible. Further filings relating to the killing of other journalists in Gaza have followed.

 

Cameron is cited as a recommended lawyer in the Legal 500 and highly praised by his clients:

  • Legal 500 2024 praise Cameron Doley as ‘the outstanding figure in Public International Law who is fiercely intelligent, and has the necessary breadth of vision to satisfy clients’ complex requirements. His work in the sector is often of a landmark nature.’ They also report that ‘he ‘Immediately identifies what really matters and never loses sight of it.’
  • Legal 500 2024 also cite ‘Cameron’s team as ‘unsurpassed in dealing with cases that involve diplomatic or geopolitical complexities.’
  • Legal 500 2023 report that ‘Cameron is the go-to lawyer whenever particularly difficult or sensitive cases arise, especially those with geopolitical aspects. His dedication to his clients’ interests is pretty much unparalleled, as is his handling of client relations and expectations.’
  • ‘Cameron Doley has a first-rate intellect and his analysis of the position (both legally and in terms of wider context) is as good as it gets.’ Legal 500 2023
  • Legal 500 sources report that Cameron ‘provides assured and well-informed leadership and is ‘very trusted’ among his clients including governments, heads of state and leading political figures.’
  • ‘[Cameron] has huge political and diplomatic experience and has the ability to step in and deal with more complex issues. He is very well known in global political circles and is very trusted as a consequence.’ Legal 500
  • Chambers & Partners HNW report that Cameron ‘…has particular expertise in international work, and has acted in litigation before the UN, the European Court of Justice and the European Court of Human Rights’
  • Described in Chambers Guide to the Legal Profession as having ‘a consistently diplomatic approach that always gets the needed results’ and as ‘a great lawyer to have fighting your corner’
  • Co-editor of the sixth edition of ‘Carter-Ruck on Libel and Privacy’ and a contributor to ‘Whistleblowing’, published by the Oxford University Press.  He sits on the Advisory Council of the London Philharmonic Orchestra and various advisory bodies at Oxford University.

Cameron’s clients include:

  • Al Jazeera Media Network in a very large range of legal and regulatory matters over more than 20 years. He led the team which conducted its claim against the Arab Republic of Egypt before an ICSID-appointed tribunal under the 1999 Bilateral Investment Treaty between Qatar and Egypt. He has also conducted Al Jazeera’s successful defence of a number of matters raised before its UK regulator Ofcom and continues to undertake a very significant volume of pre-broadcast work for the Network’s channels
  • The State of Qatar, including in ongoing proceedings before an ICSID-appointed tribunal under the Bilateral Investment Treaty between France and Qatar.
  • The Qatar 2022 World Cup Bid Committee and the Supreme Committee for Delivery and Legacy for the Qatar World Cup
  • The beIN Media Group, one of the largest sports and entertainment broadcasting networks in the world
  • Various sovereign states, governments, ministries and prominent political figures in the Gulf and elsewhere in the MENA region
  • Sheikh Thani Bin Abdullah Bin Thani Al-Thani, the globally prominent businessman and philanthropist, particularly in relation to his charitable partnerships with the UNHCR, UNICEF and the World Food Programme and with internationally known ngo’s including Oxfam, Save the Children, CARE and MSF

Cameron’s Media-related successes include:

  • Recovery of more than £500,000 together with the publication of a front page apology upon the settlement of a claim brought by Sheikha Mouza Al Misnad (wife of the then Emir of Qatar) against the newspaper Azzaman; the award of £165,000 – one of the largest libel awards of recent years – to Sheikh Rashid Ghannouchi (the then leader in exile of the Tunisian opposition) against global satellite news channel Al Arabiya; and the victory achieved by the Prime Minister of Turkey, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, against London’s Daily Telegraph newspaper.