Ben Rose
Ben Rose
Email: brose@hickmanandrose.co.uk
Tel: +44 207 7025 342
Mobile: +44 7974 228 848
Assistant Kate Egerton: +44 207 936 9422
Profile
Ben 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, efficientand technologically skilled lawyer I have ever worked with. He would be my first choice for any complex, serious criminal case."
Ben is a founding partner of Hickman and Rose Solicitors and heads the firm’s fast expanding City based practice. He has in the past defended numerous cases involving serious organised crime, major advance-fee frauds and significant miscarriages of justice, including Andrew Adams, one of the most high profile of recent years, which led to him being named The Times ‘Lawyer of the week’ in January 2007.
Supported by a dynamic and intellectually impressive team of lawyers, Ben Rose has recently been sought out to advise and defend in several major national and internationalbribery and corruption cases, election law investigations, financial fraud and boiler-room frauds.
In addition, Ben’s expertise covers Administrative Court work on issues arising out of criminal and regulatory litigation, asset tracing and confiscation. He has been and is instructed in several very large cross-border confiscation claims. Ben’s practice also includes experience of the criminal aspects arising out of employment disputes and FSA and health and safety prosecutions.
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 as and when it is required. He is unfaltering in his application of results-driven legal acumen to all of his cases. Chambers Guide to the Legal Profession 2009 says of Ben he is “very engaging and active - clients feel secure with him and rightly so.”
Specialisations
International bribery and corruption, corporate fraud, election law, FSA and health & safety investigations and prosecutions, confiscation proceedings, money laundering, miscarriages of justice
Notable Work
Ben represented Andrew Adams who was freed by the Court of Appeal in January 2007 following the quashing of his conviction for the murder of a retired teacher on Tyneside in 1994.
(The Times http://business.timesonline.co.uk/tol/business/law/article1294762.ece)
In June 2008 he successfully dissuaded the Serious Fraud Office not to prosecute his client for what would have been the maiden prosecution for international bribery and corruption.
(FinancialTimes http://us.ft.com/ftgateway/superpage.ft?news_id=fto060220081751212886&page=2)
Ben also represented one of the main directors of Balfour Beatty plc during the Serious Fraud Office’s investigation into the company’s construction of Bibliotheca Alexandrina in Alexandra, Egypt. This investigation reached its conclusion in October 2008 when the SFO decided to take no criminal proceedings against the Company or directors involved.
(The Times http://business.timesonline.co.uk/tol/business/law/article4890205.ece )
Ben is also a Supervisor and member of the Serious Fraud Panel; and is 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 on young people and crime, and most recently lectured both the Criminal Cases Review Commission on their tenth anniversary in May 2007 and the Annual Justice Conference in October of 2007.
