Profile
Work Department
Position
Barrister specialising in Disciplinary and Regulatory, Health, Safety and Environment, Marine and Fisheries, International Crime, Transport.
Career
Called 1989; Inner Temple.
Paul Rogers has a proven track record in handling complex investigations, trials and appeals as lead counsel, at both the domestic and international level.
Paul has significant experience in the international field as a senior prosecutor at the United Nations International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia (UNICTY), and domestically in relation to war crimes and crimes against humanity.
His current practice centres on the defence of corporations, directors and individuals for offences under the Health and Safety at Work Act, and gross negligence manslaughter. Recent corporate clients include British Airways Avionics, Wanis, Tesla Engineering, SERCO, Tayto, Anglian Windows Ltd . Paul acts for care homes and care providers in relation to CQC prosecution and in inquests concerning deaths in care. Recent clients include a hospital director employed by Priory Healthcare, and large care providers such as Lifeways Community Care Ltd.
Paul advises the DPP/AG and CPS in relation to grave international crimes and issues of diplomatic immunity. He appeared for the prosecution in the case of R v Agnes Reeves Taylor –(allegations of torture arising from the first Liberian Civil War in 1990) at all levels including in the Supreme Court R v Reeves Taylor [2019] UKSC 51. The case established a landmark ruling on the breadth of the international crime of torture as enacted in domestic legislation under section 134 Criminal Justice Act 1988. He also acted for the DPP in the Divisional Court and Court of Appeal in the case of Freedom and Justice Party & Another v Secretary of State for the Foreign and Commonwealth Office [2018] EWCA Civ 1719, [2016] EWHC Admin 2010 a case determining the scope of immunities from arrest and prosecution for persons on special missions.
He trains advocates at both the national and international level in trial and appellate advocacy. He has taught advocacy programmes in the Balkans, The Hague – Netherlands, Poland and in the UK. He is an approved advocacy trainer for the Inner Temple.
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Education
The Old Grammar School; Lewes; Liverpool University (1988 LLB Hons); Inns of Court School of Law (1989).
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Testimonials
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- 'Andy Hunter is always helpful, and will arrange alternatives in the event of diary clashes.'
- 'Andy goes the extra mile to make preferred counsel available.'
- 'The clerks are always approachable and go the extra mile to assist.'
- 'The clerking is efficient.'
- 'The go-to chambers for health and safety investigations and prosecutions. They have enviable strength in depth.'
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