Nationality: United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (the ) (Western European and other States)
Term: 11 March 2012 - 10 March 2021
Assumed full-time duty: 16 March 2015
Elected from: List A on 16 December 2011
Previously assigned to: Appeals Division (11 March 2012 - 31 March 2021)
President of the Appeals Division: 24/04/2020
President of the Appeals Division: 11/03/2012 - 19/03/2018
Biography
Judge as of 11 March 2012, for a term of nine years. Assigned to the Appeal Division. National of United Kingdom, elected from List A (competence in criminal law and procedure) on 16 December 2011.
Judge Morrison, served as a judge at the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia, since 2009. He previously served as defence counsel at various international tribunals, including at the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (1998-2004), the Special Tribunal for Lebanon (2009) and the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia (since 2009), where he was a trial judge in the case of Radovan Karadžić.
In 2008 he was elected as a Master of the Bench of Grays Inn and a Senior Judge of the Sovereign Base Areas in Cyprus.
He has been appointed Queen's Counsel (2001), Circuit judge (2004) and CBE for services to International Law (2007) and KCMG (for services to rule of law) (2015).
In the UK, he practised on the Oxford and Midland Circuit in criminal law and worked in courts martial in the UK and Germany. He was appointed a Recorder of the Crown and County Courts with authority to sit in criminal, civil and family law jurisdictions.
He has a degree in Law from London University and was called to the Bar of England and Wales in 1977, having studied at INNS of Court School of Law.
He is a Hon. Professor of Law at Leicester University as a Senior Fellow of the Lauterpacht centre for International Law (LCIL) at Cambridge University.
He holds a Hon. L.L.D. from Leicester University and lectures in International Criminal and Humanitarian Law, world wide.
