Ben was called to the Bar in 1998. He a wide range of experience in defending and prosecuting all types of serious, complex and technical criminal cases.
He also has a wealth of expertise in civil fraud, including Operation Hound-type personal injury cases, s.14 TOLATA cases, disciplinary cases and inquests.
He represents individual and corporate clients, prosecutes for the Fraud Prosecution Service, local authorities and is on the CPS London Rape List.
He has particular experience in the electronic presentation of cases.
Ben (as a junior acting alone) secured £706,000 compensation for Colin Stagg from the Home Office following his wrongful indictment for the murder of Rachel Nickell.
He is currently representing the practice manager of a dental surgery facing a matrix of frauds, requiring a detailed knowledge of NHS procedure and dental surgery.
He has recently secured the acquittal of a defendant in an "honour" kidnapping case. Ben represented the first accountant to be tried with offences under the Proceeds of Crime Act 2002, successfully appealed against his convictions and secured acquittals following a retrial. The case involved £45m confiscation proceedings; Regina v R EWCA Crim 122.
Ben represented the "Halifax IOU fraudster", successfully appealing against his sentence for the £10.3m fraud; Regina v Price [2006] EWCA Crim 972.
He represented a mail consolidator in the UK's largest ever mail consolidation/fulfilment fraud, successfully securing his acquittal; Regina v Cadette Southwark Crown Court.
He represented a bookkeeper in a corporate Hawala banking fraud, securing his acquittal; R v Hadi Middlesex Guildhall Cown Court.
Ben prosecuted the first section 13 Trade Descriptions Act 1968 offences against an estate agent where for sale boards were placed on higher value real estate than the properties being sold; Merton LBC v Time 2 Move.
He prosecuted Tesco in a case where it received its highest ever fine for food safety offences; Merton LBC v Tesco Stores Ltd.
Ben has extensive experience in prosecuting trading standards, health and safety, food safety and consumer cases.
He appeared as Crown Counsel in the leading cases of Regina v Lashley [2005] EWCA Crim 2016 (Judge's conduct, Prosecution opening speeches, "no comment" interviews and Judges' rulings); and Regina v Davies [2004] EWCA Crim 1126, LTL 23/4/2004: (inconsistent verdicts as between defendants).
Ben appeared in the largest civil recovery case of all time and landmark leading case of ARA v Green, MacKenzie & Others [2005] EWHC QBD 3168 (Admin) (Sullivan J), LTL 16/12/2005 which served to define "unlawful conduct" under Part 5 of the Proceeds of Crime Act 2002.
Ben is currently instructed in linked cases concerning alleged fraudulent investment advice.
Ben also practises from 5 Paper Buildings, London