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Ben Douglas-Jones KC

Position

Ben Douglas-Jones KC is a leading silk in financial, serious, consumer, appellate and human rights crime. 

Ben is a Deputy High Court Judge (King’s Bench Division) with authorisation to sit in the Administrative Court, a Recorder of the Crown Court with authorisation to sit in serious sexual offences cases and a Master of the Bench (Gray’s Inn).  

He is also an attorney-at-law in Grenada, with rights of audience in the Eastern Caribbean Court of Appeal. 

Ben specialises in human rights, human trafficking and modern slavery, appeals, complex fraud, homicide, serious crime and regulatory law, including consumer and intellectual property. His human rights and appellate practice has seen him appear in many recent leading cases concerning human trafficking and refugees and human rights in financial crime, including special court cases before three successive Lords Chief Justices.  

Career

Called 1998, Silk 2018.

Memberships

Fraud Lawyers’ Association 

Criminal Bar Association 

South Eastern Circuit 

Wales and Chester Circuit 

American Conference Institute ACI Anti-Corruption / FCPA: Legal, Regulatory and Compliance Experts 

AMLAC – Anti-Money Laundering, Audit, Compliance and Fraud Forum 

Caribbean Lawyer Network 

Anti Counterfeiting Professionals 

FCPA – Foreign Corrupt Practices Act – Anti-Corruption Compliance Group 

Financial Crime Risk, Fraud and Security 

Proceeds of Crime Network 

Professional Discipline Lawyers Group 

Regulatory Compliance Association 

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