C. Dennis Morrison

Nationality: Jamaican QUALIFICATIONS 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 Appointed Queen’s Counsel, 1994 BAR, JUDICIAL EXPERIENCE 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 Partner, Dunn, Cox & Orrett, 1985, and Head of Litigation, 1995 – 2008; Appeared before Courts in a wide range of jurisdictions in the Caribbean and before the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council; Justice of Appeal, Belize, 2004 – 2015; Justice of Appeal, Jamaica, 2008; President of the Court of Appeal, Jamaica, 2016; Commonwealth Foundation Fellow, 1991; Appointed Justice of the Court of Appeal, Cayman Islands, 2015 MEMBERSHIPS 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; 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 Member, Cayman Islands Judicial Education Committee, 2016