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Morag Ellis KC is widely recognised as a leading expert in planning and local government law in England and Wales, with a wide ranging practice covering all aspects of development.

She is consistently praised in the Chambers & Partners and Legal 500 Guides and the Planning Magazine Survey of barristers.

Morag is a member of the Silks' Panel to the Welsh Government and a past Chairman of the Planning and Environment Bar Association. She gave evidence to the Parliamentary Select Committee on the National Policy Statement on Ports and the Welsh Government Senedd on the review of TAN 8 (Renewable Energy) and the Planning Law (Wales) Act 2015 and served as a member of the Interim Planning Advisory Group advising the Welsh Minister on changing culture in Welsh Planning.

• Called 1984; KC 2006
• Dean of the Arches and Auditor
• Master of Faculties
• QC Church Commissioner
• Immediate past Commissary General of the Diocese of Canterbury
• Immediate past Deputy Chancellor of the Diocese of Southwark.

• Member and former Chairman of the Planning and Environment Bar Association
• Member of the National Infrastructure Planning Association
• Standing Committee Member of the Ecclesiastical Judges Association
• Member of the Ecclesiastical Law Society
• Member of Public Law Wales
• Member of the London Welsh Lawyers Association
• Dean of the Arches and Auditor
• Master of Faculties
• KC Church Commissioner
• Immediate past Commissary General of the Diocese of Canterbury
• Immediate past Deputy Chancellor of the Diocese of Southwark.

Penrhos College, Colwyn Bay
St Catharine’s College, Cambridge (1983 BA Law; 1986 MA)

Bach Choir
School Governor
Church of England Reader