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Yr Athro Annette Morris

Yr Athro Annette Morris

Reader in Law

Email
morrisa7@cardiff.ac.uk
Campuses
2.06, Adeilad y Gyfraith, Rhodfa'r Amgueddfa, Caerdydd, CF10 3AX

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Annette joined Cardiff Law School as a lecturer in September 2003. She is the module leader for Tort and also teaches Legal Foundations.

Her research, which focuses on various aspects of civil justice, draws on the practical experience she has gained to date.  Before joining Cardiff, she worked as a legal assistant in the claims department of the Norwich and Norfolk NHS Trust; was a pupil barrister at 4 Pump Court, Temple - a defendant-oriented common law and commercial chambers and was policy research officer at the Association of Personal Injury Lawyers.

She is most well known for her work on compensation culture which was cited in the House of Commons' Constitutional Affairs Committee report on the issue in 2006.   She spoke recently on the issue at a public engagement event entitled 'Hard Cases: Shaping Legal Policy' which was organised as part of the ESRC's Festival of Social Science 2012.  She is currently writing on the most recent issue within the compensation culture debate - whiplash - on which the Government has just issued a consultation paper.

Annette is a member of the Journal of Law and Society's editorial board and a member of the Socio-Legal Studies Association.  She is the Subject Sections Secretary for the Society of Legal Scholars and the rapporteur for England and Wales at the European Centre for Tort Law and Insurance.  She was previously the convenor of the Torts subject section of the Society of Legal Scholars, the academic representative on the Civil Justice Council's Injury Committee and the Associate Editor of the Journal of Professional Negligence.

She is currently an external examiner at BPP Law School though has previously externally examined at the University of Westminster.  She was a Visiting Lecturer at Charles University, Prague in April 2007.

Originally from Aberystwyth, Annette graduated from the University of East Anglia (UEA) in 1996 with a first class honours degree in Law with European Legal Systems and achieved a School of Law Prize for her academic achievement. During 1994-1995 she also studied at the University of Limburg in Maastricht, The Netherlands as an ERASMUS student.  She was awarded her Masters by Research, which concerned damages for personal injury, in 1998.

Ymrwymiadau siarad cyhoeddus

DateTitleEvent
July 2013 Tort and Social Justice in the UK Law on the Edge, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada
June 2013 The UK 'Compensation Culture': Trends and Tribulations Law and Society Association Annual Conference, Boston, USA
September 2012 Compensation Culture Revisited: The Road Traffic Accident Exception Society of Legal Scholars Annual Conference, Bristol University
April 2012 Tort Law Culture in the United Kingdom: Image and Reality in Personal Injury Compensation (with Richard Lewis) Cultures of Tort Law in Europe, European Centre for Tort and Insurance Law, Vienna, Austria
June 2011 The Politicisation of Tort and Adversarial Legalism: The Anglo-American Way? Law and Society Association Annual Conference, San Francisco, USA
July 2010 Claims for Sale: Injured Ethics? International Legal Ethics Conference IV, Stanford University, California, USA
April 2009 Asbestos Wars and the Battle Over Pleural Plaques Socio-Legal Studies Association Annual Conference, Leicester
November 2008 The Liability of Public Bodies and the Law Commission's Paper on Administrative Redress Informal Seminar, Cardiff Law School
September 2007 The Proposed Streamlined Procedure for Lower-value Personal Injury Claims Association of Personal Injury Lawyers Costs and Funding Conference , London
July 2007 Small Claims, Big Problem? The Personal Injury Perspective W G Hart Workshop on access to justice , Institute of Advanced Legal Studies, London
October 2006 The Compensation Culture and Empirical Research Panel on Compensation Culture, Society of Legal Scholars Annual Conference, Keele
May 2006 Coping with the Costs War: The Judiciary and the Conditional Fee Regime Changes of Judicial Culture and Decision Making in Different Branches of Law, Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic
January 2006 Haltom and McCann's 'Distorting the Law' Cardiff Law School Research Away Day, Cardiff
December 2005 Spiralling or Stabilising? The Compensation Culture and our Propensity to Claim Damages for Personal Injury Does the Litigation System in England and Wales Deliver Access to Justice and Value for Money?, Centre for Socio-Legal Studies, Oxford
October 2005 The Compensation Culture Debate: Lies, Damned Lies and Statistics Society of Legal Scholars Annual Conference, Glasgow
May 2005 No-win, No-fee, No Stopping Us? Cardiff Law School Staff Seminar , Cardiff

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  • Morris, A. and Oliphant, K. 2010. England and Wales. In: Koziol, H. and Steininger, B. C. eds. European Tort Law 2009. European Tort Law Yearbook Berlin: De Gruyter, pp. 134-168.

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Newyddion cysylltiedig

With compensation culture in the news and the Government proposing to limit access to the legal system for those who have suffered whiplash injuries, a timely book has been published which features chapters from two academics from the School of Law

Damages and Compensation Culture

21 Tachwedd 2016

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