Hon. Justice C. Dennis Morrison

Date Appointed

Appointed since 2015

Nationality

Jamaican

QUALIFICATIONS

  • Born 1950, Jamaican
  • University education at University of the West Indies and as a Jamaican Rhodes Scholar at the University of Oxford
  • Admitted as an attorney-at-law in Jamaica, 1975
  • Academic Staff (full time) of Norman Manley Law School and Council of Legal Education for the Commonwealth Caribbean, 1978-1982 and then associate tutor and course director
  • Joined Dunn, Cox & Orrett, 1982-present
  • Partner, 1985 and Head of Litigation, 1995-2008
  • Appointed Queen’s Counsel, 1994
  • Appeared before Courts in a wide range of jurisdictions in the Caribbean and before the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council
  • President, Jamaican Bar Association, 1995-1999
  • Secretary, Organisation of Commonwealth Caribbean Bar Associations, 1985-1993
  • Former Member of General Legal Council for Jamaica
  • Chairman, Kingston Legal Aid Clinic, 1995-2008
  • Founding Chairman, Legal Aid Council of Jamaica, 1997-2001
  • Chairman, Council of Legal Education, 1998-2005
  • Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators
  • Justice of Appeal, Belize, 2004-2015
  • Justice of Appeal, Jamaica, 2008
  • President of the Court of Appeal, Jamaica, 2016
  • Commonwealth Foundation Fellow, 1991
  • Member of Commonwealth Expert Group on the reform of the law of evidence, 2001
  • Leo Goodwin Memorial Fellow at Nova Southeastern University, Florida 2004
  • Chairman, Continuing Legal Professional Development Committee, Jamaica, 2015-present
  • Appointed Justice of the Court of Appeal, Cayman Islands, 2015
  • Member, Cayman Islands Judicial Education Committee, 2016