Cicely Hayward

Practice Areas

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.

Cicely was appointed to the Attorney General’s C panel of counsel (the panel from which Government departments instruct counsel in civil law matters) in 2013 and to the B panel of counsel in July 2018.

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 was called to the Bar in 2009 and has always practised at 5 Essex Chambers. She has developed a huge amount of experience across the breadth of Chambers’ core practice areas. Cicely has particular expertise in handling complex, document heavy, multi-party cases both in adversarial and non-adversarial matters.

Cicely regularly writes articles and delivers training on police law and inquests and inquiries.

Please visit the 5 Essex Chambers website for Cicely’s profile, which sets out full details of her practice including relevant work of note.