Cicely Hayward

Cicely’s practice encompasses police law, inquests and inquiries, public law, human rights law, prison law, data protection and general common law including high value personal injury and clinical negligence claims, equalities law and employment law .

In recent years Cicely has been instructed in the Manchester Arena Inquiry by the Home Office, the Undercover Policing Inquiry, the East London Inquests (inquests into the deaths of the 4 men murdered by Stephen Port) as junior counsel to the Inquest, Inquest into the death of Pte Geoff Gray (Deepcut Barracks) by the Ministry of Defence, Inquest into the death of Katie Locke by the National Probation Service, the Abdelhakim Belhaj litigation by HMG and the Independent Inquiry into Child Sexual Abuse (Child Migration strand) by the Department of Health.

Cicely has particular expertise in handling complex, document heavy, multi-party cases both in adversarial and non-adversarial matters. She is frequently instructed in cases with national security issues.