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11 September 2025

Rhys Davies and Ben Keith Shortlisted for International Bar Association Pro Bono Award

Ben Keith

Rhys Davies and Ben Keith Shortlisted for International Bar Association Pro Bono Award

Rhys Davies and Ben Keith have both been shortlisted for the IBA Pro Bono Award 2025, recognising his outstanding commitment to pro bono work.

The International Bar Association (IBA) Pro Bono Committee honours lawyers who have demonstrated exceptional dedication to pro bono work. Rhys and Ben are two of seven candidates shortlisted globally for this year’s award.

The award is supported by LexisNexis and represents international recognition of excellence in pro bono legal services.

Rhys and Ben were jointly named International Pro Bono Barrister of the Year award in November 2021, by Advocate, the England and Wales Bar’s national pro bono charity.

The IBA Pro Bono Committee’s mission is to support the promotion of pro bono work globally through implementation of the IBA Pro Bono Declaration and the exchange of information and best practice. Pro bono work serves as a cornerstone of the legal profession and a crucial vehicle for access to justice where legal aid systems may be insufficient.

Their nominations reflects their extensive work in international human rights law, they have worked jointly on numerous submissions to the UN Working Group on Arbitrary Detention and UN Special Rapporteurs, Global Magnitsky Sanctions submissions to governments in the UK, US, and Canada applications to the European Court of Human Rights, African Commission of Human and People’s Rights.

About the Author

Ben Keith
Ben Keith Barrister

Ben Keith is a co-founder of IHR Advisors and an internationally recognised lawyer specialising in INTERPOL Red Notice challenges, extradition, international human rights law and asylum. He is the co-author of Interpol, Law and Practice (Sweet & Maxwell, 2026). He is co-editor of Red Notice Monitor, the leading public resource on INTERPOL Red Notice abuse and the practice of INTERPOL’s Commission for the Control of Files.

Ben represents clients across every region in INTERPOL Red Notice and Diffusion challenges before the Commission for the Control of Files. He has secured the deletion of Notices issued by states including Russia, China, the United Arab Emirates, Turkey, Belarus, Iran and Venezuela, in cases involving journalists, opposition political figures, refugees, human rights defenders and business figures targeted in commercial and political disputes. He is the author of the INTERPOL chapter in The Practitioner’s Guide to Global Investigations (Global Investigations Review, 2026).

Ben has appeared as counsel before the European Court of Human Rights Grand Chamber, the UK Supreme Court, the African Commission on Human and Peoples’ Rights, the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights, the UN Working Group on Arbitrary Detention, and the UN Committee Against Torture. He is a member of the List of Counsel for the International Criminal Court and the Kosovo Specialist Chambers in The Hague.

He regularly acts for politically exposed persons, journalists, human rights defenders and high net worth individuals facing extradition, INTERPOL Notices and other instruments of transnational repression. He provides legal commentary to national and international media including the Guardian, The Times, the Financial Times, The Telegraph, the BBC, Sky News, CNN, CBS 60 Minutes, The Economist, Politico and Al Jazeera.

Ben is ranked Star Individual in Chambers and Partners and a leading individual in The Legal 500 for extradition. He practises from 5 St Andrew’s Hill in London.

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