Background
John Morris is a partner at our Toronto office and National Coordinator for our Health Law Practice Group. Mr. Morris was admitted to the Ontario Bar in 1983. He was awarded an LL.B degree from Osgoode Hall Law School (1981). He is a recipient of the Walter Williston Award for legal scholarship.
Prior to that, he received a Bachelor of Arts (Honours) degree (1975) and Master of Arts degree (1977) from the University of Toronto.
He was a member of the Advisory Committee to the Enquiry on Mental Competency commissioned by the Minister of Health in 1989.
Mr. Morris is a Graduate of the Harvard University Mediation Course, June 1998, and the Harvard Advanced Mediation Course, June 2007.
He is an Adjunct Lecturer, Faculty of Law, Queen’s University in Alternative Dispute Resolution and an Instructor for the Osgoode Professional Development Part-Time LLM in Health Law.
Mr. Morris has been recognized as a leading practitioner in the field of Medical Negligence by the Canadian Legal LEXPERT Directory.
Mr. Morris received the designation of Certified Specialist (Health Law) from the Law Society of Upper Canada in February, 2007.
He is named in the 2008 edition of The Best Lawyers in Canada in the specialty of Personal Injury Litigation: Medical Negligence.
Areas of Practice
- Mr. Morris has had a varied career in the practice of litigation. He has been counsel in cases involving claims of professional negligence, construction disputes and general commercial litigation.
- In recent years, a significant focus of Mr. Morris’ practice has been in the field of health law and medical negligence. He and other members of the Health Law Group act for over a hundred facilities in Ontario. Borden Ladner Gervais LLP is counsel to the Healthcare Insurance Reciprocal of Canada.
Professional Experience
- Regularly acts as counsel for numerous health facilities and health professionals throughout Ontario involving malpractice and product liability claims.
