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Cyber security specialists for the evolving digital world.
Our cyber security team understands the critical nature of safeguarding digital assets, fully recognising their vulnerability and value. With impressive expertise in this area, we can offer outstanding guidance and representation for all of your legal challenges, and have extensive experience acting for the government, police forces, businesses and regulators on matters of high significance.
Our team is at the forefront of the UK’s legal cyber security landscape, appearing in courts and tribunals ranging from the Supreme Court to lower levels, and acting in some of the most prominent cases in this area.
We offer advice that is expert, but also innovative and forward-thinking, in line with the rapidly shifting and continuously evolving challenges unique to this sector.
Our cyber security experts are dedicated to providing pragmatic counsel and exceptional advocacy across a wide range of matters, from time-sensitive crisis management situations to complex and high-value litigation.
We fully understand and acknowledge the sensitivity and reputational risks inherent in this field. We approach these matters with the utmost discretion and integrity. Our barristers undergo rigorous vetting processes and are well-versed in working with highly sensitive material, covering both the public and private sectors.
Our experts deliver valuable insights via training in this area, and through our regular monthly bulletin, the Data Brief, which can be found here.
To find out more about our collaborative and responsive team, please contact our clerking team.
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