Peter Morris

Pete Morris has a practice principally in immigration & asylum law. He has been junior counsel acting on a pro bono basis for civil liberties organisations intervening in the House of Lords in A & Others, [2004] EWCA 1123 on the admissibility of evidence derived through torture abroad and Jones v The Kingdom of South Arabia & others [2004] EWCA Civ 1394, a case concerning civil actions for torture abroad.

He edited the Blackstone's Guide to the Asylum & Immigration (Treatment of Claimants etc) Act 2004 [OUP 2004].

Before coming to the Bar he was Director of Policy for the public service trade union, UNISON. He was on the European TUC Economic Committee (1996-9) and the ETUC Social Policy Committee (1992-6) where he coordinated the work of European trade unions on social clauses in public procurement contracts.

Within the union, he was responsible for developing the legal and economic case for the national minimum wage and instrumental in forming a working group on its legislative form and implementation in early 1990's. He advised the trade union side in major 'equal pay for work of equal value' pay restructuring in local government, health service and universities (1985-88).

In the 1970's and 80's he worked with the garment and furniture unions in East London, organising low paid and mainly migrant workers.

last updated November 2006

Year of Call

2000

Education

BA (Hons), MA

Email Address

p.morris@doughtystreet.co.uk

Specialist Teams

Peter Morris is a member of the following specialist law teams:

• Employment and Discrimination
• Human Rights
• Immigration
• International Law Group