As Managing Partner, Catherine leads the firm’s management team and is responsible for delivering the firm’s business plan and leading our growth strategy.

She works closely with the firm’s partners, Business Services Directors and our Heads of HR to ensure that the firm’s energies are focussed on its clients and its employees. She is responsible, with our Finance and Risk officers, for ensuring the firm is well managed from a financial and regulatory perspective.

Before becoming Managing Partner, Catherine led our Dispute Resolution team and she continues to practice as a litigator.

Catherine qualified as a solicitor in 1992 with city firm Alsop Wilkinson (now part of DLA Piper) and joined Morr & Co as a partner in January 2015, having previously worked for UK200 firms Coffin Mew (now part of Knights Plc) and Barlow Robbins LLP (now part of Moore Barlow LLP).

Catherine is a Solicitor-Advocate (Civil) and sits as a Deputy District Judge on the South Eastern Circuit.

Interests

Catherine is a keen horsewoman, hiker, skier and gardener. She doesn’t like to be indoors in her spare time!

Examples of work 

Partnership

Acting in a High Court family partnership dispute for an account of profits, where two brothers were unable to agree on a profit share after the death of a third brother.

Acting in a High Court partnership dispute where the partners were solicitors in practice, and the Claimant called for an account, complicated by a dispute as to when the partnership had ended.

Shareholder dispute

Acting for a shareholder director of a family-owned company in a complex claim involving breach of fiduciary duty, breach of contract and a claim under s994 Companies Act 2006 for an order that our client’s shares, valued at £3million, should be bought by a family member and co-shareholder.

Private client

Defending a possession and money claim valued at just under £1million brought by a high street bank, in reliance on an Enduring Power of Attorney that had been fraudulently mis-used by our client’s son to build up a buy-to-let portfolio.  Successfully negotiated a settlement that enabled our client to keep her assets.

Commercial

Acting for a global logistics company in a dispute over passing off, misuse of company assets and termination of employment, working together with our employment team to achieve a successful resolution for the client

Acting for a global manufacturing company in a dispute over the fitness for purpose of goods from a third-party supplier, advising on liability and contribution claims and enabling the client to negotiation a compromise in an on-going commercial relationship with its opponent.

Leading a team of lawyers to advise in a complex claim for a declaration as to the interpretation of a disputed contract term, in a claim valued at over £700million. This claim involved a very large electronic disclosure exercise that required a team of over 18 lawyers to complete, against a tight deadline.

Acting in a claim for the restoration of a £10million business / damages for unlawful means conspiracy, following the diversion of the client company’s business by the opponent to another company, concluding with a win after a 2-week trial.