Ben has a busy practice providing advice and advocacy services across a wide range of domestic and international commercial disputes. He has acted as sole or junior counsel in proceedings in a range of courts (including the Commercial Court, QBD, Chancery Division, Mercantile Court, Technology and Construction Court, Court of Appeal, and House of Lords) and under a variety of arbitral rules (including LMAA, LCIA, ICC, UNCITRAL, ICSID, GAFTA, FOSFA, and RSA). Ben also has experience of arbitration-related applications including challenges to awards under ss 67-69 of the Arbitration Act 1996 as well as applications for interim and post-judgment relief (including applications for extensions of time, domestic and worldwide freezing orders, preservation of property, appointment of receivers, and registration, recognition and enforcement of foreign judgments). He has provided expert opinions on English law for use in proceedings in the United States, Korea and Denmark.
Ben has an interest in public international law and human rights. He has been involved in proceedings before international courts and tribunals (including the ICJ, WTO, ECHR and investment treaty tribunals) as well as in domestic proceedings in the High Court, the Court of Appeal and the House of Lords. He has advised governments (both the UK and foreign), state entities and private parties on a range of international law subjects including treaty interpretation, UN sanctions, humanitarian law, refugee rights and obligations, human rights, diplomatic and state immunity, and international investment under bilateral investment treaties and ICSID.
Since his appointment as a Junior Counsel to the Crown (C Panel) in 2008, Ben has been instructed in a number of domestic proceedings raising issues of public international law, human rights, and commercial law.
