Matthew Morrison admitted to British Virgin Islands Bar

Serle Court is delighted to announce that Matthew Morrison has been called to the Bar of the British Virgin Islands.

Matthew has a broad commercial chancery practice, with a particular emphasis on civil fraud, company and partnership, insolvency, and trust litigation.

Matthew’s BVI admission complements his existing wide-ranging offshore practice which has included unled appearances before the Grand Court of the Cayman Islands, the Cayman Islands Court of Appeal and the Supreme Court of Gibraltar. Matthew is also regularly instructed as junior counsel in large-scale commercial and chancery matters both onshore and offshore. These include cases in the Courts of the Isle of Man and the DIFC. In addition, Matthew has significant experience of assisting advocates in appearances before the Royal Courts of Jersey and Guernsey.

Matthew is recommended by Legal 500 as a leading individual in civil fraud, commercial litigation, company, insolvency and offshore. He is also ranked in Chambers & Partners for civil fraud, commercial dispute resolution, commercial chancery, company and offshore, and in Chambers & Partners Global for commercial, commercial chancery and offshore.

For further information on Matthew’s practice please click here or contact Practice Director, Nick Hockney.

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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).