Julian Hayes

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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Online safety – the ICO’s Children’s Code

7th September 2021
Data Protection, Insights, Julian Hayes, News & Insights
Neither blessed with a catchy title nor immediately in force, the Age Appropriate Design Code grabbed few headlines when it was issued by the Information Commissioner (ICO) in 2020. Now re-badged as the Children’s Code and in force from 2 September 2021, it is being feted as an early blow in the UK government’s wider campaign against online harms and in particular the risks to the privacy of minors. Broadly drawn, both in terms of the online service providers affected and its geographic reach, the Code provides guidance on safeguards for the online treatment of children’s personal data, with compliance underpinned by the potentially severe enforcement powers of the UK GDPR. Sensing the way the wind was blowing, the tech titans had already modified their services, spurring calls for similar measures in other countries. Misgivings over the ambit and practical impact of the Code remain, however, particularly in relation to the thorny issue of age-verification.

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