Hyperion and Carter-Ruck

An earlier post referred to the troubles that leading independent classical music recording company Hyperion now finds itself in. Most especially, paying what are assumed will be very hefty costs for the plaintiff's legal team. Carter-Ruck. That name rang a bell. So I did some digging. Ah, yes. Peter Carter-Ruck. The libel lawyer who used to tangle with the British satirical magazine Private Eye. The libel lawyer who actually lost a case against The Eye and was, for once, left with very hefty costs to pay himself.
Carter-Ruck died in 2003. His obituary in The Guardian was written by an ex-partner. It starts thus:

The libel lawyer Peter Carter-Ruck, who died on Friday, had a chilling effect on the media. He was a chancer, out for the maximum fee. And he did for freedom of speech what the Boston Strangler did for door-to-door salesmen.

Dead men can't sue for libel. The obit continues here.
The man is dead. But the law firm continues, specialising in defamation law, libel law, slander law, and -- sign of the times -- intellectual property law.