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Ben Jones

Call: 2015

"Ben is a joy to watch in the tribunal. His forensic research skills, brilliant preparation and understanding of complex claims are all highly impressive and reassuring to clients."

Chambers & Partners 2024

"Ben is an exceptional advocate. He always remains calm, even in the most testing of cases, and has an excellent ability to make lay clients feel at ease and involved in proceedings."

The legal 500 2024

'Ben is a junior of choice.  He is immeasurably intelligent, and with forensic research skills and a creative intelligence; and he combines these attributes with a thoroughly pragmatic approach to litigation. He is is not afraid to roll up his sleeves and get involved in the detail, working closely with clients to understand their litigation goals.  Ben is also empathetic, and measured with professional and lay clients alike at a level that belies his years of call. A real star in the making.'

The Legal 500 2023

"We are confident in the legal and practical advice he gives. He is a very popular counsel with our clients, and excellent with difficult claimants and litigants."

Chambers & Partners 2023

Overview

Ben is recognised in Chambers and Partners and The Legal 500 2022 as a leading practitioner at the London Employment bar. He is described as an exceptionally intelligent barrister with forensic research skills’ who can think outside the box” and as being intelligent, calm, and unruffled”.

Ben’s expertise spans all areas of employment law and into adjacent areas of professional discipline, and commercial dispute. He regularly conducts investigations and internal processes.

Career highlights include:

  • Acting as the junior member of the counsel team for a supermarket in one of the major ongoing equal pay claims;
  • Acting as junior investigator in numerous high profile investigations that received national press coverage;
  • Acting as sole investigator in numerous other confidential and sensitive processes for commercial, academic, and third sector clients;
  • Defending numerous household names in litigation (including FTSE listed companies, internationally recognised academic institutions, and Trade Unions – in disputes with their former employees);
  • Successfully defending dozens of NHS Trusts before the Employment Tribunal; and
  • Numerous appellate appearances spanning the Privy Council, Court of Appeal, Employment Appeal Tribunal, and Upper Tribunal (including leading cases on fundamental points regarding limitation in pay claims, fairness in internal disciplinary processes, the scope of statutory appeals against orders for erasure from the medical register, the scope of statutory appeals against barring decisions by the DBS, admissibility of evidence in discrimination proceedings, and costs).

Academic Background

  • Oxford University
    • DPhil (Law Faculty)
    • Freshfields Scholar
    • Retained Lecturer in Law (Pembroke College)
    • Law Tutor (St Hugh’s College)
  • Cambridge University
    • MPhil in Sociology (Ethico-legal/biosciences focus)
    • MA in Natural Sciences (Biological/Biomedical sciences focus)
  • Faculté Libre de Droit, Paris ­– Visiting Lecturer in Law
  • City University, Bar Professional Training Course
  • Grays Inn – Lord Uthwatt scholar
  • College of Law, Graduate Diploma in Law

Ben has contributed to various academic publications, including co-authoring chapters in recently published EU-funded work on comparative labour law.

Professional Recommendations

“Ben is a joy to watch in the tribunal. His forensic research skills, brilliant preparation and understanding of complex claims are all highly impressive and reassuring to clients.”

Chambers & Partners 2024

“Ben is a promising junior with good technical, client care and advocacy skills. He is very good at adjusting his style for different types of hearings and has had excellent results for us.”

Chambers & Partners 2024

“Ben is a client favourite and works well with witnesses, delivering excellent results at tribunal and providing commercially sound advice more generally.”

Chambers & Partners 2024

“Ben is an exceptional advocate. He always remains calm, even in the most testing of cases, and has an excellent ability to make lay clients feel at ease and involved in proceedings.”

The Legal 500 2024

“We are confident in the legal and practical advice he gives. He is a very popular counsel with our clients, and excellent with difficult claimants and litigants.”

Chambers & Partners 2023

‘Ben is a junior of choice.  He is immeasurably intelligent, and with forensic research skills and a creative intelligence; and he combines these attributes with a thoroughly pragmatic approach to litigation. He is is not afraid to roll up his sleeves and get involved in the detail, working closely with clients to understand their litigation goals.  Ben is also empathetic, and measured with professional and lay clients alike at a level that belies his years of call. A real star in the making.’

The Legal 500 2023

“Ben is a junior of choice. He has forensic research skills, combined with a can-do attitude and a creative intelligence – he will go far.”

The Legal 500 2022

“He is good with clients and he spends time thinking through the issues and the risks.” “He is technically on the ball, he reassures the clients, he is clear in his advocacy, and he is calm and collected.”

Chambers & Partners 2022

“Ben is an exceptionally intelligent barrister with forensic research skills. He displays a lively and creative intelligence in discussions about cases and can think outside the box when presented with new problems. I am certain that Ben will go far – he is a real star in the making.”

The Legal 500 2021

Expertise

Employment & Discrimination

Investigations and Internal Processes

Professional Regulatory & Discipline

DBS Appeals

Commercial Employment


Recent and current work

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Deputy Senior Clerk
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