| His Honour Judge Morrison CBE |
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| Judge of the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia | |
| Incumbent | |
| Assumed office 31 August 2009 |
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| Preceded by | Lord Bonomy |
| Personal details | |
| Born | July 20, 1949 |
| Nationality | British |
| Alma mater | University of London |
| Profession | Barrister |
| Website | www.icty.org |
Howard Andrew Clive Morrison CBE is a British lawyer and, since August 2009, a Judge of the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia based in The Hague, Netherlands.[1]
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Morrison was called to the Bar at Gray's Inn in 1977, where he was appointed a Bencher in 2008. From 1977 to 1985, he practised on the Midland and Oxford Circuit, including working in courts martial in the UK and Germany.[1] In 1985, he was appointed Resident Magistrate and then Chief Magistrate of Fiji, and Senior Magistrate for Tuvalu. In 1988, he was appointed Attorney General of Anguilla with specific responsibility for the speedy enactment of new anti-drugs legislation,[1] and awarded an OBE. He was called to the bars of Fiji (in 1988) and the Eastern Caribbean Supreme Court (in 1990). He returned to the United Kingdom in 1989, where he continued to work on the Midland Circuit, being appointed Assistant Recorder in 1993 and Recorder in 1997.[1]
In 1998, he began working in defence at the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR) in Arusha, Tanzania, and the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) in The Hague, being appointed Queen's Counsel in 2001. In 2004, he ceased working at the war crimes tribunals to become a full-time Circuit Judge,[2] and in 2008 became Senior Judge of the Sovereign Base Areas of Cyprus.[1]
Morrison was appointed a judge of the Special Tribunal for Lebanon in 2009, but resigned[3] shortly afterwards on his appointment as a Judge of the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY), succeeding Lord Bonomy.
Morrison was elected as one of the six judges for the International Criminal Court on December 16 2011 at the International Criminal Court judges election during the 10th session of the Assembly of States Parties to the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court.
Morrison was a Holding Redlich Distinguished Visiting Fellow at Monash University Faculty of Law in 2007.[4] He also lectures on international humanitarian law throughout Europe, Africa, the Middle East, USA and Australia. He was a member of the Race Relations Committee of the Bar Council from 1996 to 2002 and of its Equal Opportunities Committee from 2002 to 2003. He is a member of the International Bar Association, the Commonwealth Judges and Magistrates Association, human rights group JUSTICE, the British Institute of International and Comparative Law, and of the Advisory Board for the Journal of International Criminal Law. He was appointed a Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society (FRGS) in 1991.