DANIEL BENJAMIN

Called to the Bar in 2006

Middle Temple

Crime, Family & Inquests

Called to the Bar in 2006.
LLB (Hons.) from the University of Warwick in 2004 and LLM from King’s College London in 2005.
Recorder - Family Court (2019) and Crown Court (2021).
Experience of the full range of criminal offences as well as motoring offences, regulatory offences and confiscation proceedings.
Level 3 Prosecutor on the CPS General Crime List.
Level 3 Prosecutor on the CPS Specialist Fraud Panel.
Experience of representing parents, local authorities and children’s guardians in care proceedings and representing parents in private child law proceedings.
Experience of appearing for public authorities in inquests.
Public Access qualified.
Pupil Supervisor.

Recent Criminal Work

R v CW (2020) – prosecuting a defendant accused of VAT evasion and tax fraud.
R v HB (2020) – prosecuting a defendant accused of evading several hundred thousand pounds in tax.
R v AA and TH (2020) – Prosecution counsel in a county lines drug dealing case.
R v AS and SB (2019) – Prosecution counsel in a case involving VAT fraud, tax fraud and money laundering.
R v GH and 8 others (2019) – Leading junior counsel for the Crown in a money laundering case involving multiple companies and several million pounds of cash being laundered.
R v AP (2019) – Prosecution counsel in a case involving fraud by an NHS employee.
R v RT (2019) – Counsel for the defendant, accused of section 18 GBH, assault and assaulting police officers.
R v RO and another (2018) – Prosecution counsel in a blackmail case. Press coverage.
R v AP (2018) – Counsel for the defendant, accused of assault by penetration. Press coverage.
R v RR (2018) – Counsel for the defendant, accused of multiple offences of arson and criminal damage. The defendant was unfit to plead and the case proceeded to a trial of whether he had done the acts.
R v SB (2018) – Counsel for the defendant in a multi-handed case of being concerned in the supply of Class A drugs.
R v RW (2018) – Counsel for the defendant accused of arson with intent to endanger life.
R v GA, JA & DG (2018) – Prosecution counsel in an aggravated burglary case.
R v EF, SF & JS (2018) – Junior counsel for the Crown in a case involving conspiracies to cause explosion and steal by blowing up cash machines. Press coverage.
R v KS (2017) – Counsel for the defendant, accused of attempted murder. Press coverage.
R v DK (2017) – Counsel for the defendant, accused of section 18 GBH. The case involved responding to three hearsay applications made by the Crown on different bases. Press coverage.
R v PS (2017) – Counsel for the defendant, accused of defrauding his bookmaker employer of around £100,000 takings on Fixed Odds Betting Machines.
R v MM (2017) – Counsel for the defendant, accused of sexually assaulting a man with a mental age of a young child
R v HM (2016) – Prosecution counsel in a VAT fraud by an accountant involving the use of multiple companies and multiple identities.
R v BF (2016) – Counsel for the defendant, accused of making indecent photographs of children. The case involved analysis of detailed technical information about how image files are created on mobile telephones.
R v KW (2015 & 2016) – Counsel for the defendant, accused (with a co-defendant) of attempted section 18 GBH, attempted ABH and possession of two offensive weapons. The case against KW was the subject of a successful application to dismiss involving both legal and evidential submissions.
R v JP (2015) - Counsel for the 15 year-old defendant in the Crown Court accused on endangering the safety of railway passengers by attempting to derail a high-speed train.
R v CQ & 14 others (2015) - Junior counsel for the prosecution against 15 defendants accused of conspiring to defraud the Department of Work and Pensions through fraudulent applications for crisis loans totalling in excess of £650,000.
R v AF (2011 and 2012) - Junior defence counsel in a kidnap, false imprisonment and blackmail case. Appeared in the Court of Appeal, without a leader, in a successful appeal against sentence. Judgment

Recent Inquests Work

Inquest touching upon the death of IJ (2019) – counsel for a local authority in an inquest which involved detailed consideration of alleged faults by that local authority, another local authority, a care home, a GP and an NHS hospital.

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