GIR – The Guide To Cyber Investigations: A Practitioners' Perspective

BCL partners Julian Hayes and Michael Drury have written for the Third Edition of Global Investigations Review's Guide to Cyber Investigations explaining the patchwork of statutes and common law that are in place to regulate cyber­security in England and Wales.

*Here is a short extract from the guide. If you wish to read the full guide, please visit the GIR website.

England and Wales has no single corpus of cybersecurity law; instead, cyber­security is regulated by a patchwork of statutes and the common law. These laws operate to criminalise both unauthorised interference with computers (Computer Misuse Act 1990 (CMA)) and the interception of communications (Investigatory Powers Act 2016 (IPA), Part 1 and Wireless Telegraphy Act 2006 (WTA)); to impose obligations to protect personal data through the application of appropriate technical and organisational security measures (United Kingdom General Data Protection Regulation (the UK GDPR), Data Protection Act 2018