Crime – corporate; crime – general; fraud: crime; consumer.
As leader and junior, Ben defends and provides compliance advice to professional and corporate clients including PLCs. He prosecutes for the Serious Fraud Office, CPS Specialist Fraud Division (including medical regulation), Organised Crime and Special Crime Divisions, Appeals Unit and Proceeds of Crime Unit, and local authorities. Level 4 prosecutor. Specialist panels: Fraud, Serious Crime and Proceeds of Crime (London, South East and Wales). CPS Advocate Rape and Child Abuse List. Bribery: Operation Vectorial (matchfixing): Ben represented the first person ever acquitted of Bribery Act offence); SFO v BH ($2.7Bn bribery). Fraud: SFO v Evans (£170m Celtic Energy “fraud”): Ben represented the first Defendant in victories over the SFO in this “blockbuster” case; Operation Valgus (mortgage; over 1,000 mortgages); Operation Festival (complex tax); Abacus Trading (£40m invoice / banking); Operation Ernest (£110m factoring fraud); Operation Militia (botnet cyber fraud); SFO v OB [2014] UKSC 23 (Contempt; Extradition; Restraint; Specialty; Boiler-room Fraud). Consumer law including trademarks, copyright, medical, criminal planning, food safety and environmental health. Co-author Blackstone’s Guide to the Consumer Rights Act 2015. Human rights: Zaredar [2016] EWCA Crim 877; Boateng [2016] 2 Cr. App. R. 5; YY [2016] 1 Cr. App. R. 28; Mateta [2014] 1 WLR 1516 (asylum); J (2016 special court); L [2014] 1 All ER 113 and N and Le [2013] QB 379 (human trafficking) and Ewing [2016] 1 Cr. App. R. 32 (free speech); R (DPP) v Leicester [2016] 1 Cr. App. R. 5 (self-incrimination). Co-authored Human Trafficking CPS Guidance and Law Society Immigration Crime Guidance. Attorney in Grenada.
Called 1998, Gray’s Inn.
French.
Fraud Advisory Panel; Criminal bar Association; Fraud Lawyers Association.
Taunton School, University of Reading (1996 LLB (Hons) Law), University of Wales (1999 MPhil Law).