Biography

Ben Douglas-Jones KC is a barrister at 5 Paper Buildings in London. He is also an attorney-at-law in Grenada, with rights of audience in the Eastern Caribbean Court of Appeal, a Deputy High Court Judge, Recorder of the Crown Court and Master of the Bench (Gray’s Inn). He 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. Chambers and Partners describes him as “An extremely talented barrister with exceptionally broad knowledge of the law, who can juggle the preparation of multiple complex cases concurrently.” Ben co-wrote the Crown Prosecution Service and Law Society Guidance on human trafficking and immigration crime and Judicial College Guidance on trafficking. He is a contributing editor of Human Trafficking and Modern Slavery Law and Practice, Southwell, Brewer and Douglas-Jones KC, Bloomsbury Professional, 2018 (1st Ed) and 2020 (2nd ed) and an author of Blackstone’s Guide to the Consumer Rights Act 2015. He provides domestic and international training on human rights in the context of judicial, practitioner and regulatory compliance training and has provided evidence to governmental committees on trafficking and transparency of supply chains. Ben has been a Gray’s Inn advocacy trainer for many years.