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David Morris

Call date: 1976
Email: David Morris Clerk: Stephen Somerville
Areas of Law: Specialist Crime, Public Access, Commercial Fraud, Public Law, Disciplinary & Regulation, Health & Safety, Clinical Negligence
Practice summary

David Morris practised widely in common law (with an emphasis on clinical negligence) and crime before specialising.  This breadth of work has given him the skills and background knowledge required for the representation of health professionals before disciplinary tribunals and inquiries, and criminal and coroner’s courts.

David is instructed either directly or through solicitors by the three UK medical and dental defence organisations (Medical Protection Society, Medical Defence Union Services Limited, Medical and Dental Defence Union of Scotland). He also accepts instructions directly from uninsured health professionals under the Bar Council's Public Access rules.

David combines a detailed knowledge of tribunal and court practice and procedure with a friendly and relaxed client-centred approach to make a stressful, career-threatening process more bearable and to secure the best possible outcome.

A selection of recent cases
  • McGeehan v Stockport Health Authority
  • EWHC (QB)
  • Liability for brain damage following forceps delivery
  • Mateu-Lopez v GMC
  • UK PC 44
  • Irresponsible management of addiction unit by consultant psychiatrist - appropriate sanction
  • Abusheikha v GMC
  • UK PC 80
  • Appropriate sanction for academic plagerism
  • Dare v GMC
  • UK PC 54
  • erasure as an appropriate sanction for a psychiatrist guilty of an improper relationship with a patient/professional colleague
  • GMC v Singh
  • Advising on the commercial acquisition of a kidney from a live donor in India
David Morris
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David Morris has an impressive track record in cases where high-ranking doctors face being struck off.  Professional Discipline, Chambers and Partners 2012

David Morris has vast experience in medical disciplinary and regulatory matters. Professional discipline and regulatory, Legal 500, 2011

‘incredibly experienced in GMC cases, has been there, done that and is very good with clients’.  Professional discipline and regulatory law Legal 500 2010

David Morris regularly represents healthcare practitioners at risk of being struck off, often appearing before the GMC and the GOC. Clients say his approach is affable and smooth, and "absolutely nothing gets past him.” Professional Discipline, Chambers and Partners 2011