Date of Call: 1998
Ben is a specialist fraud, criminal and regulatory barrister, recommended in Chambers and Partners for Criminal Fraud. He defends professional and corporate clients including public limited companies. He is on the Serious Fraud Office B List and prosecutes for the Central Fraud Group of CPS Headquarters. He also prosecutes for local authorities and is on the CPS London Rape List.
He is recommended as a leading junior for Fraud: Criminal in Chambers & Partners 2011. He practises in all fraud, including Hawala, advance fee (419), boiler room, NHS, dental, pharmaceutical, MOT, Internet, car-ringing, gambling, banking, cheque clearing cycle and bank card fraud. Ben is also on the Fraud Advisory Panel.
Ben’s regulatory practice extends to all areas of consumer law, with an emphasis on trade-marks and copyright law, criminal planning, food safety and environmental health.
Ben prosecutes and defends in serious criminal cases, including murder, sexual and drug offences.
He has vast experience in restraint, confiscation and receivership proceedings.
Ben conducts second-opinion appellate work where he did not appear in the Crown Court and is instructed by the CPS Appeals Unit in the High Court and Court of Appeal. He also has significant expertise in miscarriage of justice work having represented Colin Stagg and secured his £706,000 compensation for Stagg’s wrongful indictment for the murder of Rachel Nickell.
Ben’s civil practice centres on judicial review and fraud.
As well as being a tenant in 5PB, he is a door tenant in Apex Chambers, Cardiff.