Helen Morris leads Kingsley Napley’s successful Reputation and Media team and is a highly regarded litigator with over 20 years of experience.

Helen has a proven track record of representing both claimants and defendants who are facing damaging attacks on their reputation, and has worked on a range of high-profile defamation, privacy, harassment and data protection cases.

She specialises in particular in providing pre and post-publication advice to a broad range of clients, from high profile celebrities and sports stars to politicians, heads of international institutions and HNW families.

Her goal is always to pre-empt any risk for her clients, and she employs creative and highly effective solutions to ensure their personal and professional lives and businesses are kept out of the spotlight, including obtaining and resisting injunctions.

Helen also has extensive experience advising clients in harassment and blackmail cases. She understands the unique vulnerabilities that individuals, families and corporates face at such times, and can provide tailored guidance to protect their interests.

In the event that there is the potential for a regulatory and/or criminal investigation, Helen is able to draw on the expertise of her top-ranked colleagues to provide comprehensive advice and support at every stage of the process.

In addition to advising individual clients and their families, Helen also acts for corporate entities, providing long-term strategic advice, litigation support and crisis management.

Helen is named in Spear’s 2024 as a Recommended Reputation & Privacy Lawyer, and in Chambers UK for Defamation & Reputation Management. She was shortlisted for 'Lawyer of the Year – Reputation’ at the 2023 Spears Awards. 

Niki combines technical rigour with commercial nous and a pragmatic, strategic approach to place clients in the best possible position to avoid litigation, initiate claims or, for employers, provide a strong defence to any claims and reach favourable resolutions. As a testament to her expertise, Niki is also recognised by Chambers and Partners, UK 2024 and in their 2024 Global Guide.

Niki advises on the full range of contentious and non-contentious employment law. She acts for employers, LLPs, senior executives (including directors), partners and consultants from a broad range of (often regulated) sectors including the legal, professional, financial, higher education, medical, retail, and media sectors.

Working closely with heads of HR, General Counsel and senior leaders, Niki provides advice to support their effective management of what are often sensitive, business-critical issues, which arise throughout the employment relationship including: drafting and negotiating contracts of employment, service agreements and buy-out agreements; managing employee exits; high value severance arrangements; grievance, whistleblowing and disciplinary processes (including under the Maintaining High Professional Standards in the NHS); performance management; sickness absence; discrimination; bullying and harassment; TUPE, redundancy and reorganisations. Advice on business protection is an important aspect of this day-to-day support which includes: drafting of post termination restrictions and confidentiality provisions; enforcement of those provisions (including applications for injunctive relief); advice on team moves; and the use of mediation to resolve disputes.

Niki provides advice to senior executives in all of the above areas with a particular focus on the negotiation of exit terms, often for individuals in the financial services sector, which take into account bonus provision, deferred remuneration arrangements and post-termination restrictions.

Investigations work, including investigations into sexual misconduct, forms a substantial part of Niki’s practice. In conjunction with specialist lawyers from across Kingsley Napley (particularly from our Regulatory, Dispute Resolution, Criminal and Public Law teams), Niki advises (or facilitates advice to) employers and LLPs, senior executives and partners on the conduct of investigations using internal or external investigators and all related matters including: planning and managing the investigation; suspension; management of employment relationships; employee/partner support; legal rights of those involved in the investigation; concurrent criminal and/or regulatory investigations; anonymity; data protection and reputation management.

Niki’s strong litigation practice informs all other areas of her advice. For 20 years, she has successfully pursued and defended numerous hard-fought cases in the High Court, Employment Tribunal and Employment Appeal Tribunal including for breach of contract, wrongful and unfair dismissal, discrimination, whistleblowing and equal pay.

Niki co-edits the employment precedents in Thomson Reuter’s Practical Commercial Precedents.

Caroline is an investigations specialist. She advises organisations and individuals caught up in serious and complex criminal and regulatory investigations. She has extensive experience in this area and conducts internal investigations on behalf of her corporate clients when allegations of misconduct arise. 

Caroline advises companies and individuals in connection with investigations by enforcement authorities including the SFO, FCA, CMA and various regulatory bodies.  Much of Caroline’s work is sensitive, high profile and multi-jurisdictional.

Caroline advises clients in a wide range of cases in the white collar and business crime sphere, in cases involving allegations of serious fraud, money laundering, corruption, cartels, and environmental crime, alongside other alleged misconduct. Caroline has extensive experience conducting internal investigations and reviews on behalf of organisations, and her cases often span multiple jurisdictions. 

In addition, Caroline represents individuals facing a broad range of criminal and regulatory investigations. She acts as an Independent Legal Advisor (ILA) representing clients in internal investigations and compulsory interviews with the authorities, and representing clients in interviews under caution.

Alongside her fraud and investigations practice, Caroline has public law experience; she represented a number of military witnesses before the Baha Mousa Public Inquiry, and advised in connection with the Independent Inquiry into Child Sexual Abuse, led by Professor Alexis Jay.

Caroline was named in Global Investigation Review’s Top 100 Women in Investigations survey 2018, a survey profiling one hundred investigations specialists from around the world. She co-author’s the chapter on witness interviews (UK perspective) for GIR’s The Practitioners Guide to Global Investigations, and is the Vice Chair of the Fraud Lawyers Association. She is also listed in Who's Who Legal Investigation Guide 2024 as Recommended. Caroline is also ranked in Legal 500 and Chambers UK.