Chancery Bar Association Annual Conference 2022

Prof. Jonathan Harris QC (Hon.), Constance McDonnell QC and Matthew Morrison will all be speaking at different workshops in relation to their respective practice areas at the Chancery Bar Association's Annual Conference 2022. The conference will take place from Friday, 14th January to Saturday, 15th January 2022 at the Royal College of Physicians.

Prof. Jonathan Harris QC (Hon.) and Constance McDonnell QC will be speaking at the workshops on Friday, 14th January 2022 which will take place between 14:55 PM – 16:55 PM.

The topic for Constance's workshop is: 'Probate – The Dark Arts of obtaining an inheritance.'

Constance will be speaking with Sophia Rogers of Radcliffe Chambers discussing:

Predatory marriage.
Undue influence and how to prove it.
Forgery and other forms of fraud.

Professor Jonathan Harris QC (Hon.) will leading a workshop together with Sir Richard Aikens of Brick Court Chambers on 'Conflict of Laws'.

Jurisdiction and Enforcement of Foreign.
Judgments in the post-Brexit era.

Matthew Morrison will be speaking on Day 2 of the conference on Saturday, 15th January 2022 in one of the workshops between 10.40 AM – 12.40 PM:

Matthew will speak alongside Lesley Anderson QC of Kings Chambers at the 'Company' Workshop discussing the following areas:

When will de facto and shadow directorship be established?
De facto and shadow members of LLPs.
Duties and liabilities of de facto / shadow directors and members.
De facto / shadow directorship and membership in the disqualification context.

To register for this conference, please click here.

Related Barristers

Constance McDonnell KC

Call: 2000
Silk: 2019

Matthew Morrison KC has a broad commercial chancery practice, with particular expertise in civil fraud, company and partnership disputes, and insolvency litigation.

Described by Chambers UK 2027 as an “outstanding barrister” who is “technically brilliant, fantastic with clients and someone whose cross-examination is exceptional”, Matthew regularly appears in the High Court and Court of Appeal and has acted in proceedings before the Grand Court and Court of Appeal of the Cayman Islands, the Eastern Caribbean Supreme Court (BVI), the Supreme Court of Gibraltar, the Isle of Man High Court of Justice and the Dubai International Financial Centre Courts. He also has significant experience assisting advocates before the Royal Courts of Jersey and Guernsey. He is generally admitted to the BVI Bar and is currently admitted ad hoc on a number of matters in the Cayman Islands.

Matthew is an established legal author. He has written widely read PLC practice notes on minority shareholder remedies and edits chapters on directors’ duties and disqualification, and insolvency, in Gore-Browne, Butterworths Corporate Law Service, Tolley’s Company Law Service and Tolley’s Company Law Handbook; and on unfair prejudice, misfeasance and disqualification in the Law of Limited Liability Partnerships (Whittaker and Machell (6th ed.), 2026).