Jack Horlock
Principal Associate
- Phone:
- +44 (0)20 7822 7132
- Email:
- Jack.horlock@weightmans.com
- Office:
- London
Jack is a deeply experienced police lawyer. He advises on a range of complex issues for police forces including inquests, public order and protest, misconduct, safeguarding, police powers, governance, projects and frameworks, and investigations.
As well as having worked in-house with a number of police forces over the years, Jack has worked as a Senior Crown Prosecutor with the CPS, responsible for prosecuting some of the most serious offences. This roots Jack’s practice in the reality of day-to-day policing.
Jack is experienced in advising and representing police forces in inquests including firearms, deaths in custody, right care right person policies, suicides and other DSIs, often alongside lengthy and complex IOPC investigations.
As a seasoned advocate, Jack appears in inquests, Magistrates’ courts, and misconduct hearings. Jack's advisory practice sees him working closely with chief officer groups on critical and often nationally significant operations.
Alongside this work, Jack is experienced in cyber incident response and data protection regulation. He has helped large corporates, charities, and public sector organisations respond to, and recover from, cyber attacks and data breaches.
He is particularly adept at dealing with the particularly sensitive breaches, often involving the most sensitive data relating to vulnerable people. Besides being the "lawyer in the room", Jack is an experienced incident manager.
Experience and notable cases:
Acted for multiple organisations following data breaches of highly sensitive, crime-related personal information.
Represented the appropriate authority in gross misconduct proceedings and accelerated gross misconduct hearings.
Designed and implemented a bespoke severity assessment and notification regime for a vulnerable persons' care home after a significant ransomware attack.
Represented a police force in an inquest concerning the death of a child on a railway.
Represented a police force in an inquest concerning the shooting by police of a member of the public.
