About the Author
Iain Morley has been a barrister and practiced in criminal law from chambers at 23 Essex Street, London.
In November 2016, he was appointed a High Court Judge of the Eastern Caribbean Supreme Court.
He has practiced in all aspects of domestic criminal law, and since 2005 has become a well-known figure on the international circuit, practicing in genocide, war crimes, crimes against humanity, and international terrorism. He has appeared and taught in 33 jursidictions.
He read law at Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford, was called to the Bar of England and Wales by Inner Temple in 1988, and was appointed Queen’s Counsel in 2009.
He has been in a number of high profile cases in England, including the Sarah Payne murder in 2001.
From October 2004, for five months, he assisted the defence of Slobodan Milosevic at the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) in The Hague.
He was then from March 2005 in Arusha, Tanzania, assisting the UN to prosecute the 1994 Rwandan genocide of the Tutsi by the Hutu at the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR), where he was Trial Counsel in four lengthy cases.
In April 2009, he was appointed Senior Trial Counsel at the UN Special Tribunal for Lebanon (STL) in The Hague, just as the Tribunal opened, where he then marshalled the evidence, and wrote the indictment, confirmed in June 2011, against the alleged assassins in 2005 of former Lebanese Prime Minister, Rafik Hariri.
In Janaury 2013, he returned to London domestic practice, where he was daily mostly in murder trials.
In addition, Iain Morley is an established advocacy teacher, nationally and internationally, and The Devil’s Advocate, in its third edition, is currently worldwide a bestselling book on advocacy skills.
He is an A-grade teacher-trainer for the Inner Temple, where he is a Bencher, and he trains and grades trainers and barristers. He was on the Inner Temple Advocacy Committee from 1992 until 2005, wrote much of the criminal course materials for the pupils and juniors between 1998 and 2005, and has been a course director of several of the Inner Temple advocacy residential weekends in years past. In addtition, since 2009 he has taught at the week-long annual Advanced Advocacy Course in Keble College, Oxford, organised by the South Eastern Circuit.
He is an honorary Professor of Advocacy at Nottingham Law School and a visiting Professor of Law at Coventry University.
He has also taught in Sarajevo, Warsaw, Trier, Vienna, Sofia, Dublin, Dubai, Karachi, Islamabad, Tashkent, Arusha, Phnom Penh, Kuala Lumpur, Harare, Bulawayo, Mutuare, Antigua, Montserrat, St Lucia, St Helena, and in The Hague at the ICTY, STL, International Criminal Court (ICC), Special Court for Sierra Leone (SCSL), and at the Universities of Oxford, Cambridge, London, Birmingham, Durham, and annually at Leiden.