A brave barrister who never stopped smiling even when fighting cancer has died, prompting a flood of tributes.
Ben Morris was born in Crosby and educated at Waterloo Grammar School and the University of Liverpool, before he travelled the world. Returning home, he decided to become a barrister and, after being called to the Bar in 1996, became one of the region's top advocates.
Renowned for his "warmth, kindness and sense of fun", the dad-of-three and grandad-of-two was a "formidable" lawyer, who earned the respect of everyone he met. And when diagnosed with prostate cancer in 2014, "he fought his illness in the same way as he defended his clients - with courage and determination".
