Julie Morrissy

Julie advises on general construction matters, including contracts, procurement, professional appointments, collateral warranties, bonds, guarantees, and engineering disputes, guiding clients through ADR, adjudication, and complex commercial development and regeneration projects.

• Advised a FM consultancy business on issues arising from a public/private partnership delivery project.
• Advised a university client on design and construction of a new research, teaching, and innovation centre.
• Advised a client on issues re foundation piling in a partially constructed building and negotiated the demolition and reconstruction of the same at no cost to the client.

Julie advises on transport and rail sector construction, including alliancing agreements, machinery contracts, station development, design responsibility disputes, and standard Network Rail asset and infrastructure agreements.

• Advised a consortium member on one of the early alliancing agreements for a major UK rail infrastructure update project.
• Advised a rail sector client on contracts relating to the manufacture of rail tamper and other machinery.
• Advised a rail sector client on a dispute with Network Rail relating to design responsibility.
• Advised on station development and construction.
• Advised on standard Network Rail asset and other agreements.

Julie is an experienced construction and engineering lawyer who advises property developers on a wide range of contentious and non-contentious matters.

• Advised on a construction management agreement and trade contracts for a high-end residential development in London.
• Advising a joint venture developer on a significant commercial and residential development in the North East.
• Advised a contractor on a series of fit-out and new-build construction contracts.
• Advised a developer on its mixed-use development in Durham.
• Advised on the construction of a student accommodation scheme and private residential buildings in Edinburgh.
• Advised on the refurbishment and expansion of a hotel and golf resort in Cheshire.

Julie is a construction lawyer who advises the Higher Education sector and schools sector on a wide range of contracts. She also advises on disputes relating principally to estates and the funding for capital projects.

• Advised a number of universities on their multi-million-pound capital expenditure programmes.
• Advised a developer on aspects of its student accommodation development programme.
• Advised the University of Sheffield on its award-winning world-leading new Engineering building.
• Advised the University of Sheffield in relation to its new Social Sciences development.
• Advised a university client on the incorporation of renewable energy for its estate.

Julie is an experienced construction and engineering lawyer with a practice that combines contentious and non-contentious work. She has particular expertise in renewable and other energy contracts.

• Advised on a series of energy-from-waste contracts.
• Advised on the EPC and other project documents for an international development project.
• Advised an infrastructure contractor on the negotiation of an international supply contract.
• Advised a client on renewable energy contracts.
• Advised a client on the re-negotiation of an energy supply from District Heating Network and issues relating to the maintenance of the same.

Recognised by Chambers UK for Construction 2024 – 2026

Former member of the national executive sub-committee for Business Development of the Prince’s Trust Construction and Business Services Leadership Group

Teacher on the Institute of Structural Engineers degree course

Member of the LexisNexis construction panel

Former Board member of the Board of Governors of Sheffield Hallam University and sits on the Audit Committee