Ben Cooper
Ben Cooper is Joint Head of the DSC Extradition Team. He defended Gary McKinnon, acted for Haroon Aswat v UK, (where the European Court held extradition to the US would violate Article 3) and defended Richard O'Dwyer, securing the first UK-US DPA. He has defeated IRA and PKK requests and a terrorist death penalty prosecution in Uganda. He recently defeated a French EAW on Article 3 grounds, requests from the UAE, Turkey, and Moldova on Articles 6 and 3 grounds and in a landmark case prevailed on Article 2 grounds. In the Supreme Court he defeated a Polish EAW relying on Article 8 (rights of dependent children) and a Lithuanian EAW on jurisdictional grounds. He regularly advises on challenging Interpol Red Notices.
Ben was Liberty Human Rights Lawyer of the year for 2012.
Practice Area
Panel
- Contributing Author
Qualified Year
- 1999
Membership
- Middle Temple Inns of Court
Qualification
- BA (Hons)
Education
- University of Sussex
1 Contributions by Ben Cooper
PRACTICE NOTES
Modern Slavery Act 2015: Human Trafficking, Slavery and Exploitation—Offences, Elements, Sentencing, Reparation, Prevention and Risk Orders, and Practitioner Guidance
What is human trafficking?
The widely recognised description appears in the UN Protocol to Prevent, Suppress and Punish Trafficking in Persons, Especially Women and Children, which supplements the UN Convention against Transnational Organisational Crime. This instrument provides the accepted definition used to describe trafficking in persons internationally today. It covers the recruitment, transport, transfer, harbouring or receipt of people through threats or actual force, other types of coercion, abduction, fraud, deception, abuse of power or of a position of vulnerability, or by giving or taking payments or advantages to secure the consent of someone who controls another person, all for the purpose of exploitation. Exploitation, at a minimum, includes profiting from the prostitution of others or other forms of sexual exploitation, forced labour or services, slavery or practices akin to slavery, servitude, or the removal of organs. Human trafficking describes moving a person from one location to another into exploitative circumstances by using deception, coercion, the misuse of power, or taking advantage of a person’s vulnerability. Such trafficking can happen across borders or entirely within the UK...
Corporate Crime
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