About
Professor Geoffrey Morse is the general editor of Palmer’s Company Law and the author of several books and articles on company law, tax law and partnership law.
Qualifications
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LLB 1968 (Newcastle)
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Barrister (Lincoln’s Inn) 1971
Biography
Geoffrey Morse joined Birmingham Law School in 2004 after sixteen years as the Professor of Company Law at the University of Nottingham. He has previously taught at the Universities of Nottingham, East Anglia and Liverpool. He was head of school at Liverpool from 1983-1988 and at Nottingham from 1994 to 1999.
He has held visiting appointments at the Universities of Cape Town, Durban, Singapore, where he was the David Marshall Professor of Law in 2002, and as a Canterbury Fellow at the University of Canterbury in New Zealand. He was most recently a visiting professor at the National University of Singapore in 2011
Teaching
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Company Law
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Tax Law
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Partnership Law
Postgraduate supervision
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Corporate Law
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Partnership Law
Research
His research and teaching interests are in the fields of corporate, partnership and tax law. He is the co-ordinating editor of Palmer’s Company Law. He is also a member of the European Association of Tax Law Professors. He has written over 40 articles in academic journals, together with 18 books, on each of his three areas of interest. Most recently he has been involved in managing, and contributing to, the complete rewrite of Palmer's Company Law to take account of the Companies Act 2006 (completed in (October 2009), as consultant editor for the Partnership Law title in Halsbury's Laws of England and producing the 7th edition of his book on Partnership law. He is currently working on the 7th edition of Davies: Principles of Tax Law
Other activities
Within the School he is the deputy director of law examinations
Publications
His principal recent publications include:
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Palmer’s Company Law, Sweet and Maxwell, releases to 130 (2011).
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Davies: Principles of Tax Law (6th edition), Sweet and Maxwell, 2008, with David Williams
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Palmer's Annotated Guide to the Companies Act 2006, 2nd edition, Sweet and Maxwell, General and contributing editor, 2009
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Partnership Law (7th edition) OUP 2010
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Regulating takeovers: the regulators and the courts: quis custodiet ipsos custodes? (2007) 22 NZULR 620-646.
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HMRC v Total UK Ltd and Loyalty Management UK Ltd v HMRC: the price of customer loyalty - voucher schemes and fiscal neutrality revisited [2008] BTR 17-28
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HMRC v Principal and Fellows of Newnham College in the University of Cambridge: VAT anti-avoidance - the end of an era? [2008] BTR 550-556
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Proctor & Gamble UK v HMRC (Pringles Two): a very peculiar UK practice - the categorisation of food products for zero-rating [2009] BTR 59-67
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HMRC v Proctor & Gamble (Pringles Two) in the Court of Appeal: determining classification cases for VAT – a short practical answer and an end to “almost mind-numbing” legal analysis [2009] BTR 401-405
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Grays Timber Products Ltd v HMRC: valuing employee shares with non-assignable rights – implications for capital gains and inheritance taxes [2010] BTR 210-217
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A confusion of facts, opinion and law? Employment income expenses and questions of fact and law: HMRC v Banerjee in the Court of Appeal. [2010] BTR 485-492