Education
University of London.
University of London.
Morrison was called to the Bar at Gray"s Inn in 1977, following post-graduate study at the Inns of Court School of Law, where he was subsequently appointed a Bencher in 2008. From 1977 to 1985, he practised on the Midland and Oxford Circuit, including working in courts martial in the United Kingdom and Germany. 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, and awarded an Officer of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire. 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. 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, and in 2008 became Senior Judge of the Sovereign Base Areas of Cyprus. He was appointed Commander of the Order of the British Empire in 2007 for services to international law
Morrison was appointed a judge of the Special Tribunal for Lebanon in 2009, but resigned 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 16 December 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. He also lectures on international humanitarian law throughout Europe, Africa, the Middle East, United States of America and Australia. He was appointed a Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society (FRGS) in 1991.
Appointed Honorary Professor of Law, Leicester University 2012 and Senior Fellow, Lauterpacht Centre for International Law, Cambridge University 2013.
Awarded Honorary LL.D by Leicester University July 2014.
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.