Ben specialises in all aspects of personal injury law with a particularly emphasis on serious injury. He has built a varied and successful multi track practice and is regularly instructed in medium to high value claims worth in excess of £500,000 often involving complex and nuanced issues.
Ben has significant experience as a trial lawyer and is robust and determined in Court. He is also requested for his skills as an adept negotiator and is utilised for Joint Settlement Meetings (’JSMs’) particularly those requiring meticulous attention to detail.
His relaxed and reassuring manner allow Ben to quickly establish a good rapport with his clients who are reassured as to his ability to represent them from the outset.
Ben's main practice areas are:
Large loss personal injury claims, particularly involving amputation and spinal injury. Psychiatric Injury claims including PTSD and Somatoform conditions. Insurance fraud including, Employer’s Liability, Public Liability and Road Traffic, with an emphasis on acting for Defendants in this type of work. Claims involving chronic pain including Fibromyalgia, CRPS and CFS. Travel fraud. Claims involving injured military personnel, with a particular understanding of criminal injury claims and the Armed Forces Compensation Scheme. Court of protection.Large loss claims
Ben is currently involved in a number of high value and complex cases involving psychiatric injury. Two of note include a claim for damages by a young lady for the onset of CFS/Fibromyalgia following a fracture to an upper limb sustained during a trampolining exercise. This claim involves significant causational issues including the consideration of the link between trauma and CFS/Fibromyalgia. The second case of note involves a claim for psychological injury following a Claimant having witnessed the death of her young son following a road traffic incident. In both of these matters Ben is instructed by the Defendant.
Civil fraud
Ben has considerable expertise in defending civil fraud claims, having been at the forefront of this area for over a decade. He is a formidable advocate, whose forensic analysis of a case ensures that his clients are placed in the best position to defend these difficult claims.
His expertise particularly encompasses the spheres of Employer’s Liability and Public Liability fraud.
He works with many of the major defence solicitors’ firms and has become well known for adopting a determined approach to claims where fraud is either alleged or suspected. Ben is often involved at the early stages of these cases to proof witnesses, draft robust defences and advise on the extent of an insurer’s exposure and prospects of successfully defending. He adopts a symbiotic relationship with his solicitors to ensure that ideas and tactics are shared to ensure that the case is considered as a whole and the right steps are taken to achieve the most advantageous result. He welcomes his instructing solicitors speaking to him about any case he may be working on for them but importantly on other cases where an issue arises that needs a 'second set of eyes'.
He appreciates the technical aspects of these cases and the pressures experienced by both his instructing solicitors and insurer clients, especially in the current economic climate and with the significant changes occurring in relation to funding and other procedural rule amendments. He understands the importance of instructing counsel who understands this area of law inside out.
Travel fraud/Holiday sickness claims
Ben has the advantage of bringing over a decade of experience of litigating insurance fraud cases to this burgeoning area. He is keenly aware of the importance and impact that fraudulent gastroenteritis claims in particular are having on the industry and is experienced in advising on and litigating these claims.
Court of protection
Ben has acquired a significant understanding in this jurisdiction. Ben has a particular interest in disputes regarding the social welfare of incapacitated adults and children and medical treatment issues and urgent applications for life saving medical treatment.
MA (Hons), King's College, Cambridge University
Postgraduate Diploma in Law – Inns of Court School of Law.
Northern Circuit • Regional Bar
Benjamin Morris – 9 St John Street ‘Ben is responsive, thorough, and has a keen eye for detail. He will invariably produce excellent written advice and pleadings on schedule without being chased and he is a go-to counsel for serious injury and complex cases on the Northern Circuit.’