Janet Morrison

Practice Areas

Janet Morrison was called to the Jamaican Bar in 1978. Her legal practice is primarily in the areas of Corporate, Commercial, Securities and Conveyancing. A graduate of the University of the West Indies and the Norman Manley Law School, Janet also holds a Masters Degree in Commercial and Corporate Law from the University of the West Indies.

Janet is a member of the board of the Jamaica Stock Exchange and is a member of the board’s Executive Committee, the Regulatory & Market Oversight Committee and Chair of the Corporate Governance & Nomination Committee. She is also the past chairman of the Justice Reform Committee of the Private Sector Organization of Jamaica.

Janet is a former member of the Council of the Jamaican Bar Association (JBA) and sits on its Commercial Law and Publications Sub-Committees. She was one of the JBA’s representatives in making submissions to the Jamaican Parliament in the deliberation by the House in drafting the Companies Act 2004. She is a member of the Insolvency Law Reform Committee which has made submissions to the Government of Jamaica for reform to the insolvency laws of Jamaica. She is a member of the sub-committee of the Board of the Jamaica International Financial Services Authority reviewing a suite of draft legislation to form the legal frame work for the establishment of an international financial services centre in Jamaica. She has presented at several conferences on Corporate Governance, the Pensions Act and the Companies Act and has contributed legal commentaries and articles in the Jamaican press. She is an associate tutor at the Norman Manley Law School, Mona Campus, in company law and is a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators.