Lois Bayliss and Philip Hyland

Lois Bayliss of Broad Yorkshire LawLois Yvonne Bayliss Solicitors Regulation AuthorityLois Yvonne BAYLISS Companies House and Philip Hyland of PJH LawPhilip Julian Paul Hyland Solicitors Regulation AuthorityPhil Julian Paul HYLAND Companies House are British antivax solicitors who instigated misleading claims that a large scale criminal investigation was being carried out into the UK rollout of the COVID-19 vaccine by the Metropolitan Police.The Metropolitan Police has not opened a criminal investigation into Britain’s COVID-19 vaccine rollout (January 20, 2022) ReutersAnti-Vaxxers Think a 9-Digit Code Shows Vaccine Sites Are Criminal. It Doesn’t. by Tim Hume (January 21, 2022) VICE News
==National Emergency==
On December 20, 2021, Bayliss and Hyland, along with suspended GP turned holistic practioner Sam White and retired police officer turned sovereign citizen Mark Sexton, filed a criminal complaint over the government vaccine rollout with Hammersmith and Fulham Police at Hammersmith police station. The complainants were issued Metropolitan Police crime reference number (CRN) 6029679/21, which they used to promote the false claim that an massive criminal investigation was underway.
The CRN was immediately included on a press release circulated on Telegram and adverts, including the headlines “national emergency” and "the truth is out" alongside the Met Police logo, published in local papers the Rotherham Advertiser (print) and The Argus (online), calling for members of the public to support the non-existent investigation by submitting evidence of vaccine harm to Bayliss’s firm Broad Yorkshire Law.Believe It Or Not, These Anti-Vax Ads Were Published By Two Local Papers by Rachel Moss (May 25, 2022) HuffPost South Yorkshire Police whose logo was also featured in the Rotherham Advertiser version had the advert retracted by the paper and referred it to the Solicitors Regulation Authority (SRA) for investigation.British newspaper retracted advert for vaccine ‘crimes’ (January 20, 2022) Reuters The Advertising Standards Agency (ASA), acting on six complaints, later banned the ads with the ruling: 
Sovereign citizens started citing the CRN as justification for their storming COVID vaccination sites across the UK. Hyland distanced himself, Baylis and White from this criminal activity, whilst seemingly throwing Sexton under the bus with the statement: 
On February 3rd, 2022, Bayliss signed a letter on her company letterhead threating legal action against those requiring face-masks, carrying out routine lateral flow tests and facilitating Covid-vaccination programmes for schoolchildren, using the CRN as evidence of an active police investigation, which was circulated on Telegram.COVID Conspiracists Are Threatening Schools With a Fake Police Investigation by Tim Hume (February 10, 2022) VICE News Over the next few weeks, according to the SRA, Bayliss sent the letter to up to 450 people at 247 schools and GP surgeries, and encouraged up to 48 others to send similar letters.Solicitor charged by SRA over Covid vaccine letters (September 22, 2023) The Law Society GazetteLawyer Charged After Legal Threats to Schools Over COVID Vaccines by Tim Hume (September 22, 2023) VICE News 
The campaign ended on February 22, 2022, when the Met issued a formal rejection of the complaint, stating: 
Feted as heroes of the anti-vax movement for their actions, Bayliss and Hyland were invited by organiser and ivermectin pusher Tess Lawrie to speak at 2022 Better Way Conference in Bath, where they were joined by fellow antivax lawyers Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and Reiner Fuellmich, and immunologists turned conspiracist Dolores Cahill and The Davos of COVID Conspiracy Theorists Is Happening in a UK Town Right Now by Tim Hume (May 20, 2022) VICE News
==The Truth Is Out==
Both Bayliss and Hyland faced professional investigation for the pandemic shenanigans.
On April 4, 2023, the seemingly less impressed SRA referred Bayliss to the Solicitors Disciplinary Tribunal (SDT) for prosecution,Solicitor to face SDT over “misleading” Covid threats to schools and GPs by Neil Rose (September 22, 2023) Legal Futures with a ruling that read: 
A case management hearing for Bayliss, held on January 25, 2024, dismissed an application for strike out and agreed that the four-day hearing, originally listed to start on 12 February, would be relisted for later in the year. At this time Bayliss had raised over £30,000 of a £200,000 target on GoFundMe to fight the prosecution.Covid campaign solicitor who crowdfunded SDT costs appears before tribunal over 'threatening letters' (January 26, 2024) The Law Society Gazette
On August 10, 2023, Philip Hyland was similarly referred to the SDT for prosecution over allegations that he improperly threatened legal action against a GP surgery when seeking a Covid-19 exemption for a client to travel to Brazil and not self-isolate on return, and against the chair of the Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) demanding, on behalf of three clients, withdrawal of the COVID-19 vaccines, suspending COVID-19 testing and a live televised Christmas broadcast announcing this decision.Philip Julian Paul Hyland - 005891 (August 8, 2023) Solicitors Regulation AuthoritySecond solicitor to face tribunal over “threatening” vaccine letters by Neil Rose (June 13, 2024) Legal Futures The SRA's Benjamin Tankel said: 
A two-day preliminary hearing in May 2024 refused Hyland’s application for a stay. At the full hearing, held in July 2024, Tankel elaborated: Peter Fields, acting for Hyland, responded: 
The hearing concluded with an order for Hyland to pay a fine of £15,000 and costs of £66,500.‘Vaccine campaign’ solicitor fined £15,000 by SDT by Bianca Castro (July 4, 2024) The Law Society Gazette
==See also==
*Anna de Buisseret — a fellow British antivax solicitor.
==References==
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