Julian Hayes

BCL Solicitors LLP recognised as a leading firm in The Legal 500 UK 2022-2023 Guide

29th September 2022
Anoushka Warlow, Commendations, Daniel Jackson, David Hardstaff, Ellen Peart, Greg Mailer, Hannah Raphael, Harry Travers, Ian Burton, John Binns, Julian Hayes, Mark Haslam, Michael Drury, News, News & Insights, Oliver Schneider-Sikorsky, Richard Reichman, Richard Sallybanks, Shaul Brazil, Shula De Jersey, Tom McNeill

BCL Solicitors LLP are pleased to be once again recognised as a top-tier firm with an extensive team of outstanding individuals in the new Legal 500 United Kingdom 2022-2023 Guide. We have been identified as a leading firm in six practice areas and 14 of our lawyers commended for their standout contribution in their respective practices.

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Online safety: the encryption dilemma – trade-offs

18th August 2022
Data Protection, Insights, Julian Hayes, News & Insights, Regulatory, Surveillance and Interception
From e-commerce and video-conferencing to messaging friends and colleagues, we take the encryption, and thus the security, of our digital communications for granted. However, while it ensures our privacy, it is also exploited by criminals to evade detection, for example those plotting terrorist atrocities or exchanging child sexual exploitation and abuse material (CSEA). The dilemma – whether to maintain privacy or tackle crime facilitated online – underlies the opposing and often stridently expressed views about encryption. As messaging platforms roll-out end-to-end encryption (E2EE), where not even service providers can decipher messages sent over their systems, law enforcement agencies have sought to preserve their covert ability to observe our communications. The UK’s latest proposals, in amendments to the government’s flagship Online Safety Bill, have aroused fierce industry and privacy group opposition. The ongoing difficulty in resolving the privacy versus safety conundrum in part arises from a failure to level with the public about the trade-offs involved.

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BCL’s Julian Hayes and Andrew Watson discuss the NIS Regulations with The Barrister Magazine

6th May 2022
Andrew Watson, Data Protection, Julian Hayes, News, News & Insights, Regulatory
BCL’s Julian Hayes and Andrew Watson’s article ‘’Preparing for the worst but operating at our best – Reform of the NIS Regulations’’ has been published by The Barrister. In the article they discuss the regulations and look into the challenges for the reforms in the face of increased online threats.

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“Preparing for the worst but operating at our best” – Reform of the NIS Regulations

7th April 2022
Andrew Watson, Data Protection, Insights, Julian Hayes, News & Insights, Regulatory
With cybercrime rates doubling since 2019, and ransomware tripling since 2020, the UK government is seeking to bolster the nation’s cyber defences, publishing the National Cyber Strategy 2022 and enhancing the four-year-old Network and Information Systems Regulations (‘NIS Regulations’). BCL’s Julian Hayes and Andrew Watson discuss the NIS regulations and look into the challenges for the reforms of the NIS regulations in the face of increased online threats.

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BCL Solicitors LLP recognised as a leading firm in The Legal 500 UK 2021-2022 Guide

1st October 2021
Anoushka Warlow, Commendations, David Hardstaff, Ellen Peart, Hannah Raphael, Harry Travers, Ian Burton, Jane Glass, John Binns, Julian Hayes, News, News & Insights, Richard Reichman, Richard Sallybanks, Shula De Jersey, Tom McNeill

BCL Solicitors LLP are pleased to be once again recognised as a top-tier firm with an extensive team of outstanding individuals in the new Legal 500 United Kingdom 2021-2022 Guide with a total of seven leading practice areas identified and 14 lawyers commended for their standout contribution in their respective practices.

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UK GDPR Reform – buccaneering Britain goads the data protection bear

13th September 2021
Data Protection, Insights, Julian Hayes, News & Insights, Umar Azmeh
It was an open secret that the UK government and GDPR made uneasy bedfellows. Back in 2018, Dominic Cummings, Downing Street’s former chief advisor derided the European data protection paradigm as “horrific”, and looked forward to binning it. In 2020, Boris Johnson voiced his desire for a separate and independent data protection policy, and in May 2021, a deregulation task force commissioned by the Prime Minister called for the replacement of the UK GDPR (which is essentially identical to the EU GDPR) with a framework of British data rights. It therefore came as little surprise when, last week, the government issued a wide-ranging consultation on changes to the UK’s data protection regime in a self-proclaimed dash for data-driven economic growth.

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