Richard Moorhead Explained

Richard Moorhead is a Professor of Law and Professional Ethics at the University of Exeter.[1] He leads a team working on the British Post Office scandal (the Post Office Project)[2] and that work led to Moorhead’s appointment to the Horizon Compensation Advisory Board.[3] He is giving the 2024 Hamlyn Lectures on "Frail Professionalism: Lawyers’ ethics after the Post Office and other cases".[4]

Prior to his appointment at Exeter, Moorhead was the first Chair of Law and Professional Ethics and Vice Dean (Research) in the Faculty of Laws at University College London (UCL).[5] His work focuses on lawyers, their ethics, regulation and professional competence. He is the co-editor of After Universalism: Re-Engineering Access to Justice.[6] and co-author of In-House Lawyers' Ethics: Institutional Logics, Legal Risk and the Tournament of Influence.

He was elected to a Fellowship in the Academy of Social Sciences in 2019.[7]

Moorhead is also a poet whose work has been featured in periodicals. His first pamphlet, the Reluctant Vegetarian (Oystercatcher Press) was shortlisted for the Michael Marks Award.[8] His second, the Word Museum is published by Flarestack Poets and was also shortlisted[9]

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Notes and References

  1. Web site: Almost half of in-house counsel asked to advise on ethically problematic organisational actions. Dolor. Sol. Australasian Lawyer. 2019-11-20.
  2. Web site: About Us . The Post Office Project . August 9, 2024 . August 13, 2024.
  3. Web site: Horizon Compensation Advisory Board: Terms of Reference . 14 August 2024 . www.gov.uk.
  4. Web site: Hamlyn lectures . University of Exeter . August 9, 2024 . August 22, 2024.
  5. News: Professor Richard Moorhead appointed as Exeter's new Head of Law. Featured News - University of Exeter. November 20, 2019.
  6. Moorhead, Richard, and Pascoe Pleasence. After Universalism: Re-Engineering Access to Justice. Oxford: Blackwell Pub, 2003.
  7. Web site: UCL academics elected to Academy of Social Sciences . UCL News . March 20, 2019 . March 11, 2021.
  8. Web site: 13 May 2010 . The Michael Marks awards for poetry pamphlets shortlist . 14 August 2024 . theguardian.com.
  9. Web site: The Wordsworth Trust . 24 February 2015 . The 2014 Michael Marks Awards: pamphlet shortlist . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20150507061721/http://www.wordsworth.org.uk/poetry/poetrypamphlets/mm-shortlist.html . 7 May 2015 . 14 August 2024.
  10. https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1043307871

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