After 14 years as a High Court Judge, Paul retired as a judge on 30 September 2021 before joining Wilberforce Chambers as an arbitrator on 1 October 2021. He is an accredited mediator. Before becoming a High Court Judge in 2007, he was a Deputy Chairman of an Agricultural Land Tribunal from 1999 to 2007 and sat as a Deputy High Court Judge between 2001 and 2007.
Paul was called to the Bar in 1975 and commenced practice in specialist chambers, later known as Falcon Chambers. He took silk in 1992. Throughout his career at the Bar, he specialised in property law but his practice included many connected areas of law, such as insolvency and professional negligence. His work involved a high volume of litigation and court appearances at first instance, principally in the Chancery Division and in the County Courts, but often in the Court of Appeal and on six occasions in the House of Lords. He frequently appeared as counsel in arbitrations involving the valuation of property (both rental and capital valuations) or involving agricultural land.
Paul is a member of the London Court of International Arbitration (LCIA), the International Council for Commercial Arbitration (ICCA), the International Chamber of Commerce (ICC) and the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators (CIArb). He is also a member of the KC Appointments Panel.
As well as acting as an Arbitrator, Paul has experience in and accepts appointments to undertake:
Cases at the Bar
In view of the large number of reported decisions in which he appeared, the references are restricted to cases in which Paul appeared as counsel in the House of Lords:
Cases as a Judge
Paul was a judge of the Chancery Division from April 2007 to September 2021. In addition to sitting in the Chancery Division he also sat as a judge in the Upper Tribunal (both the Tax and Chancery Chamber and the Lands Chamber), the Competition Appeal Tribunal and the Administrative Court. He dealt with the full range of litigation in the Chancery Division, including:
Paul consistently delivered his judgments within a reasonable time. Many of the judgments which he gave are available on bailii.org and the usual websites. There are too many judgments over a 14 year period to list here but the following are some of the judgments given in his last three years as a judge:
General commercial litigation
Civil Procedure
Jurisdiction
Company law
Insolvency
Competition
Intellectual property
Real property
Trusts
Pensions
Charities
Taxation and duties
Local Government
Financial Regulation
Articles
Sir Paul Morgan has written an article for the Conveyancer which has now been published in [2022] Conveyancer 365-381. The article is entitled “Consents or Agreements Preventing the Acquisition of Rights to Light by Prescription and the Position of Successors in... Read more
By Sir Paul Morgan
Wednesday 7 December 2022
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Article by Sir Paul Morgan A series of developments in 2021 has meant that disputes lawyers must be more ready than ever to recommend mediation before or during litigation. The courts are prepared to use a different tool, that of... Read more
Friday 18 March 2022
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We are delighted to announce that Sir Paul Morgan has been appointed as an Evaluator with Independent Evaluation (IE), while remaining a full-time Arbitrator and Mediator at Wilberforce Chambers. IE is a unique form of dispute resolution that combines Early... Read more
Friday 11 March 2022
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Sir Paul Morgan has provided commentary to The Times on the Commercial Rents (Coronavirus) Bill, following his submission of written evidence to the Public Bill Committee. In this article, Sir Paul discusses why he feels the Government is probably being... Read more
Friday 17 December 2021
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