Chris Morris

Regulatory and Healthcare litigation

Chris became the firm’s Senior Partner in January 2018. He first qualified as a dental surgeon, and practised dentistry in the UK and overseas for ten years before training as a solicitor. Chris became a partner at Hempsons in 1996 specialising in all aspects of dental and regulatory law and heads Hempsons’ National Dental Team and the firm’s Regulatory and Crime Team.

Chris has long been recognised as a leader and Band 1 practitioner in the field of Professional Discipline by the Legal 500 and Chambers directories.

Chris has been President of the Dental Law & Ethics Forum since 2001, and was an elected member of the ARDL committee from 2015-2018.

Main areas of practice include defending healthcare practitioners at the GDC, GMC, GOC and HPC; Defendant clinical negligence litigation for dentists, doctors and other healthcare professionals; NHS regulatory work (e.g. Performers List hearings and FHSAA appeals; Specialist List applications and appeal; Acting in disputes between practitioners; and all types of GDC and GMC registration matters.

BDS (Bachelor of Dental Surgery); LLM; MBA.