Ms Annette Morris
Position: Lecturer
School: Law
Tel: +44 (0)29 208 74580
Fax: +44 (0)29 208 74097
Email: MorrisA7@cf.ac.uk
Ext: 74580
Point of contact:
Sian Lewis
Introduction
Annette joined Cardiff Law School as a lecturer in September 2003. She teaches Tort, Lawyers: Practice and Ethics and Commercial Legal Practice.
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.
Her work on the compensation culture (now published in the Modern Law Review) was cited in the House of Commons' Constitutional Affairs Committee report on the issue in 2006. She is currently writing about the Government's proposal to streamline the procedure for handling low-value personal injury claims.
She is the convenor of the Torts subject section of the Society of Legal Scholars and a member of the Socio-Legal Studies Association. She is a member of the Civil Justice Council's Injury Committee, the Associate Editor of the Journal of Professional Negligence and a member of the Journal of Law and Society's editorial board.
She is an external examiner for the University of Westminster and BPP and 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.
