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a nice pair of felco 7 or 8s secateurs - but you can use a hedge trimmer on laurel even though some say you shouldn't due to the size of the leaf.
i swing the blade up the hedge from below to go with the growth (if i'm making sense here, then that;s a bonus) and it gives good results.
Failing that then Bahco pruning saw and Bahco loppers should do the trick...
....... Or a Stihl Kombi with a pruning head / HT75 ;-) IF you can safely use horizontally from the ground
....... 'technically' no ticket required (grey area)
I had to take about 50CM width off a laurel recently, stems varying between pencil- and thumb-thick. It was a c. 150M run
Secateurs, nice and sharp, and a Silky for the thicker stems. Cutting by hand and chucking it straight in the trailer meant no picking up, and it was a far better finish than a machine. A Silky with a fresh blade goes through stems of 25mm or so in one or two strokes.
A pro hedge cutter should easily take a foot off laurel, though? Unless it's been cut above that height for years and built up thick stumps. Most laurel hedges grow more than that in a season, so it should be new growth.