Ben RoseBen Rose has been described as combining “phenomenal client skills with an almost obsessive focus on the details of a case and its legal implications. An experienced trial and appellate lawyer, he is also the most energetic, enthusiastic, efficient and technologically skilled lawyer I have ever worked with. He would be my first choice for any complex, serious criminal case." As a founding partner of Hickman and Rose Solicitors, Ben has worked for over 18 years on complex and serious cases involving serious organised crime, international major advance-fee frauds, asset tracing, confiscation and some of the largest art fraud prosecutions ever. He has acted for an array of businessmen, doctors and other professionals under investigation by the police, and politicians suspected of electoral law breaches. He has advised and defended in several major national and international bribery and corruption cases, election law investigations, and Serious Fraud Office investigations. He recently dissuaded the SFO from launching the first international bribery case against his clients Vuk Hamovic and Energy Financing Team Ltd. He has acted for a director of Balfour Beatty PLC during the SFO investigation, a senior manager in AON through the FSA corruption enquiry and currently advises a client at the Union of Democratic Mineworkers on the SFO enquiry. He has also advised a number of large PLCs on various matters. In addition, Ben’s expertise covers Administrative Court work on issues arising out of criminal litigation, asset tracing and confiscation. He has been instructed in many major cross-border confiscation claims. Ben employs a creative, project-managed, and resolutely driven approach to the cases in which he is instructed; engaging in continuous dialogue with the client and other parties in the case. Ben is a Supervisor of the Serious Fraud Panel and a Member of the Law Society’s Anti-Money Laundering Panel which provides special money laundering advice to other solicitors. He is a member of the Times Law Panel and a founder and trustee of Youth at Risk, a charity that works to change the lives of young people in difficulty. He has lectured to the Judicial Studies Board, the Criminal Cases Review Commission, and the Annual Justice Conference and addressed the FT Innovative Lawyers Awards Ceremony. Ben was named The Times 'Lawyer of the week' in January 2007 in recognition for his work on miscarriages of justice and specifically that of Andrew Adams, one of the most high profile of recent years. He was profiled in the Times in May 2009. |
