Chris Morrison Email & Phone Number

Widely acclaimed as one of the UK's leading Health and Safety lawyers, Chris is recognised in the 2016 legal directories as a Band 1 ranked lawyer in Chambers & Partners (UK Wide Health and Safety) and as a 'Leading Individual' (London & UK) within Legal 500.Highly experienced in guiding Global and major UK businesses through incident related investigations and prosecutions, his expertise spans Health & Safety, Corporate Manslaughter, Corporate Homicide (Scotland), Environmental Crime, Fire Safety, Food Safety and Coroners Inquests.Having commenced his legal career in the 1990's as an orthodox crime lawyer, Chris has been specialising in Regulatory Crime since 2001 and continues to undertake interviews under caution, trial preparation, Coroners inquest and advocacy.Retained by a significant number of household name clients in the Retail, Energy, Infrastructure, FM and Insurance sectors, Chris also provides 'upstream' compliance advice working closely with major client's SHE and Legal departments. Chris is an accomplished Trainer and Speaker in the Health & Safety field, working for external training providers as well as own clients.

Listed skills include Litigation, Legal Research, Commercial Litigation, Civil Litigation, and 6 others.

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  Partner

  Clyde & Co Llp

  Jan 2005 - Present - Manchester, United Kingdom

  Chris is Head of Clyde & Co’s nationally recognised safety, health and environmental (SHE) regulatory team which comprises of corporate crime lawyers specialising in the defence of corporate entities subject to regulatory investigation and prosecution. Heading our 24/7 incident response team, Chris seeks to prevent matters becoming either a crisis or a drama by providing strategic, responsive and no-nonsense advice to protect client's immediate and long-term reputation and revenue.