Ben Douglas-Jones KC

Practice Areas

Ben specialises in human rights, human trafficking and modern slavery, appeals, complex fraud, homicide, serious crime and regulatory law, including consumer and intellectual property.

He has appeared in many leading appeals concerning human trafficking, human rights, small boats, refugees and financial crime, including AAD 2022, AFU 2023, Luckhurst 2022 and Haden 2024. Ben has appeared in special court cases before three successive Lords Chief Justices.

In fraud, he defends professional and corporate clients including plcs. He prosecutes for the SFO, CPS SEOCID and local authorities. He has prosecuted and defended financial crime cases in the Supreme Court and in the most high profile frauds for over 20 years. He practises in all serious, complex fiscal and non-fiscal fraud, including corporate, financial, banking, carousel, MTIC, tax evasion scheme, acquisition, mortgage, Excise, Hawala, advance fee (419), boiler room, Ponzi , NHS, dental, pharmaceutical, Internet, gambling, cheque clearing cycle and insurance fraud.

Ben writes CPS, Law Society and Judicial College Guidance. He is an editor of Human Rights in Criminal Law, Douglas-Jones KC, Bunting, Mason, Newton KC, a contributing editor of Human Trafficking and Modern Slavery Law and Practice, Southwell, Brewer and Douglas-Jones KC, Archbold, Rook and Ward and an author of Blackstone’s Guide to the Consumer Rights Act.

Ben provides domestic and international judicial, practitioner and regulatory compliance training on human rights and has provided evidence to governmental committees on trafficking and the transparency of supply chains.