Areas of Practice
- Crime
- Personal Injury and Commercial Litigation
Ben Gow is a specialist criminal barrister appearing in the Crown Courts primarily on the Midland Circuit and in Oxford. He is instructed predominantly on behalf of the Defence but also undertakes prosecution work on behalf of Local Authorities.
• Serious acts of violence (including murder, wounding and armed robbery),
• Sexual offences against adults and children (including rape and sexual assault)
• Child pornography offences
• Arson
• Robbery
• Drugs offences (including substantial conspiracies to supply)
• Fraud (including insurance frauds, bank frauds, counterfeiting and Social Security frauds)
• Serious Motoring Offences (including death by careless and dangerous driving)
• Trading Standards offences
• Trade Mark offences (including large scale counterfeiting)
• Planning offences
Ben Gow’s civil area of practice covers most aspects of the General Common Law and in particular in the fields of personal injury, contract and residential possession.
His fields of practice include:
• Personal Injury, (fatal accidents, industrial accidents and diseases)
• Contract and Commercial litigation (including sale of goods)
• Landlord and Tenant (residential)
• Easements, Profits and Rights of Way
• Restrictive Covenants
• Local Government (trading standards, trade marks, social security and environmental health (including statutory nuisance, and health and safety)
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