Ruth’s practice focuses on commercial litigation with particular interest in private international law, employment, commercial fraud, insurance and sport. She also has significant experience in public law, at both a domestic and international level.

Recent past cases include appearing as sole counsel resisting an application for a springboard injunction in Aquinas v Miller and others [2018] EWHC 404 (QB) and appearing in the Supreme Court in Darnley v Croydon Health Services NHS Trust (led by Philip Havers QC and Bradley Martin QC) [2018] UKSC 50.

Currently, she is instructed as part of the counsel team in Lungowe v Vedanta Resources plc, an important case arising out of the operation of a mine in Zambia concerning issues of jurisdiction and parent company liability, due to be heard by the Supreme Court in January. She is also currently instructed by the UK Foreign and Commonwealth Office to assist with the Kenya Emergency Group Litigation, a case involving over 40,000 claimants alleging abuse arising out of the Mau Mau uprising in Kenya during the 1950s.

For the legal year 2016-2017 Ruth was Judicial Assistant to Sir Terence Etherton, Master of the Rolls. Her experience during this time included Miller and others v Secretary of State for Exiting the European Union (“the Article 50 litigation”) [2016] EWHC 2768 (Admin) and the first appeal from the Financial List Banco Santander Totta SA v Companhia de Carris de Ferro de Lisboa SA and others[2016] EWCA 1267.