{{Short description|British Judge}} thumb|Iain Morley KC '''Iain Charles Morley''' {{post-nominals|KC}} (born 1965, Dublin) is a British barrister and currently a Resident Judge of Saint Kitts and Nevis.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.eccourts.org/welcome-to-eastern-caribbean-supreme-courts-website|title=Eastern Caribbean Supreme Court|website=www.eccourts.org|access-date=Sep 24, 2025}}</ref>

==Legal career==

Mr Justice Morley received his law degree from Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford University and was then Called to the Bar in 1988 by Inner Temple. He undertook a common law pupillage in 1989 before becoming a specialist criminal practitioner, predominantly from 23 Essex Street Chambers, London. One of his most high-profile cases was the murder of Sarah Payne in 2001.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Murder_of_Sarah_Payne&oldid=1311489232|title=Murder of Sarah Payne|date=Sep 15, 2025|access-date=Sep 24, 2025|via=Wikipedia}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2000/sep/28/5|title=Prison for 'lunatic' car chase driver|work=The Guardian |date=Sep 28, 2000|access-date=Sep 24, 2025}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.theargus.co.uk/news/6769444.clothes-provide-crucial-link-jury-hears/|title=Clothes provide crucial link, jury hears|date=Nov 27, 2001|website=The Argus|access-date=Sep 24, 2025}}</ref> Morley took Silk in April 2009, then among two first British barristers to do so whilst practicing international criminal law.<ref name="wwwntuacuk">{{Cite web|url=https://www.ntu.ac.uk/research/groups-and-centres/centres/centre-for-advocacy|title=Excellence in Advocacy at NLS|website=www.ntu.ac.uk|access-date=Sep 24, 2025}}</ref>

He spent 2004 to 2012 practising in international criminal law before various tribunals, having appeared in nineteen jurisdictions.<ref name="trial-guides">{{Cite web|url=https://www.trialguides.com/blogs/authors/iain-morley|title=Iain Morley|website=Trial Guides|access-date=Sep 24, 2025}}</ref> Morley was in 2004 for six months part of the defence team of Slobodan Milosevic at the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia (ICTY) in The Hague. He then prosecuted genocide at the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR) in Arusha, Tanzania from 2005.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.counselmagazine.co.uk/articles/the-reckoning|title=The Reckoning|website=Counsel Magazine|access-date=Sep 24, 2025}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/apr/02/rwanda-genocide-fight-justice|title=Rwanda genocide: the fight to bring the perpetrators to justice|first1=Owen|last1=Bowcott|work=The Guardian |date=Apr 2, 2014|access-date=Sep 24, 2025}}</ref> In April 2009, Morley was appointed the Senior Trial Counsel at the UN Special Tribunal for Lebanon (STL) in the Hague to prosecute the assassination of Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik Hariri.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.bsblaw.co.uk/blog/uncategorized/in-conversation-with-iain-morley-qc-special-tribunal-for-lebanon|title=In Conversation with Iain Morley QC - Special Tribunal for Lebanon|website=London Criminal Solicitors|access-date=Sep 24, 2025}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://strifeblogdotorg2.wordpress.com/2014/12/29/prosecuting-war-crimes-an-interview-with-iain-morley-qc/|title=Interview – Iain Morley QC on prosecuting war crimes|date=Dec 29, 2014|access-date=Sep 24, 2025}}</ref>

In 2012, Morley returned to domestic practice from 23 Essex Street Chambers, predominantly prosecuting and defending in murder, drugs and fraud cases.<ref name="wwwntuacuk"/> He continued to assist with international matters, including acting pro bono.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.23es.com/iain-morley-qc-reverses-acquittal-in-thailand/|title=Iain Morley QC reverses acquittal in Thailand - 23es|date=Nov 6, 2015|access-date=Sep 24, 2025}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-leeds-34736138|title=Adam Pickles attack: Man jailed over Thailand assault|work=BBC News |date=Nov 5, 2015|access-date=Sep 24, 2025}}</ref>

In 2016 he was appointed by the Eastern Caribbean Supreme Court to the High Court of Antigua and Barbuda, where until 2021 he sat mostly on criminal cases, and was an architect of sentencing guidelines and a model sexual offences court for the Caribbean region.<ref>{{cite web | title=Adjudicator takes note of harsh prison conditions | date=9 June 2017 | url=https://antiguaobserver.com/adjudicator-takes-note-of-harsh-prison-conditions/ }}</ref> He also sat during 2016 to 2023 as the designated Judge of Montserrat. In 2021, he became the senior Judge of St Kitts and Nevis, sitting in serious criminal cases, and from January 2026 has been appointed the resident judge on Nevis.<ref>{{cite web | title=A fitting send-off for Justice Iain Morley | date=16 March 2021 | url=https://antiguaobserver.com/a-fitting-send-off-for-justice-iain-morley/ }}</ref><ref>{{cite web | title=A&B's Acting DPP highlights progress, challenges in the Eastern Caribbean justice system | date=13 January 2025 | url=https://antiguaobserver.com/abs-acting-dpp-highlights-progress-challenges-in-the-eastern-caribbean-justice-system/ }}</ref>

He has often taught advocacy for the Inner Temple, the international advanced advocacy course at Keble College, Oxford and in Leiden University, amongst many other institutions, and is recognised as a leading authority on advocacy skills.<ref name="wwwntuacuk"/> He wrote "The Devil's Advocate" in 2005, which is now in its third print edition and is a world best-selling advocacy book for lawyers of domestic and international jurisdictions.<ref name="trial-guides"/>

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