02 Jul 21

Sir Howard Morrison QC and Fergal Gaynor join as Associate Tenants

We are thrilled to announce Sir Howard Morrison QC and Fergal Gaynor have both joined us as Associate Tenants.

About Sir Howard Morrison QC

Sir Howard practised criminal, civil and family law until 1986 before being called to the Bars of Fiji and the Eastern Caribbean Supreme Court and being appointed Chief Magistrate of Fiji and Attorney General for Anguilla. He was subsequently appointed as a Recorder for criminal, civil and family law cases after returning to the UK Bar, expanding his practice to international criminal and humanitarian law where he defended in genocide and war crimes cases at the UN Tribunals for the former Yugoslavia [The Hague] and Rwanda [Arusha, Tanzania].

Sir Howard had an extensive judicial career in the UK and internationally with senior appointments in Cyprus, the Lebanon and the International Criminal Court. He was trial judge for the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia, in the landmark case of the former President of Bosnia, Dr Radovan Karadzic.

A visiting lecturer at some 25 universities around the world, Sir Howard holds several senior fellowships and honorary posts with UK universities of Cambridge, Leicester and Northumbria.

Sir Howard is a regular speaker on matters of international criminal and humanitarian law worldwide, and is a member of Justice, Transparency International, BIICL, Friends of the Earth, RUSI and the Slynn Foundation.

About Fergal Gaynor

Fergal is a Judge of the Kosovo Specialist Chambers in The Hague, and is the Reserve International Co-Prosecutor at the Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia.

During a career in international justice of over 20 years, Fergal has investigated and prosecuted senior members of the Bosnian Serb leadership, the Khmer Rouge leadership, the Interim Government of Rwanda and Syria’s security and military leadership. He was Lead Counsel for the victims in the case at the International Criminal Court (ICC) against Kenyan president Uhuru Kenyatta, and Lead Counsel for groups of Afghan and Palestinian victims at the ICC. He trained and qualified as a lawyer at Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer, and is admitted to the Bar of Ireland. He speaks and reads Spanish and French, and reads Italian and Portuguese.