About

Master Christie-Anne Morris-Alleyne CM. LLB, LEC, ICM Fellow, PMP | Attorney at law and Court Administration Specialist

Master Morris-Alleyne holds an LLB from the University of the West Indies in Cave Hill, Barbados, and a Legal Education Certificate from the Hugh Wooding Law School in Trinidad and Tobago. She is a Fellow of the US Institute for Court Management and holds a Project Management Professional (PMP) certification. In 2012, Master Morris-Alleyne was awarded a Public Service Administration Award as one of the 50 Most Outstanding Public Servants in the first 50 Years of Independence of Trinidad and Tobago. She was awarded the Chaconia Medal Silver the third highest national honour of her country in 2019 and named a Distinguished Alumni of the University of the West Indies in 2024.

Master Morris-Alleyne is a pioneer, with 45 years’ experience in the administration of justice and the development and administration of courts. From her entry into the Judiciary of Trinidad and Tobago as Assistant Registrar and Deputy Marshal of the Supreme Court in 1981, she has devoted her life to public service.

In Trinidad and Tobago, Master Morris-Alleyne has worked to establish several organisations, institutions and programmes which are part of the justice system, including the Department of Court Administration, the Family Court, the Children Court and Children’s Authority. She has spearheaded the reform of service delivery concepts in the courts via the introduction and development of Caseflow Management processes and computerisation and technology projects including Computer Aided Transcription (CAT) reporting, Digital Writing, case management information software, and online services such as eProbate, CourtMail and CourtPay. She has also played a key role in developing and implementing legislation affecting the administration of justice including the Mediation Act, the Family and Children Division Act and the Children’s Package of legislation as well as Civil Proceedings Rules, Family Proceedings Rules and the Children Court Rules.

A regionalist at her core, Master Morris-Alleyne has lent her talents to the wider Caribbean, establishing courts, assisting in the development and implementation of caseflow management and court administration entities and services in Barbados, Jamaica, Belize, Guyana and the Eastern Caribbean. She was also instrumental in the establishment of the Caribbean Association of Judicial Officers (CAJO) and of the Caribbean Court of Justice (CCJ), where she served as its Court Executive Administrator from inception, for almost a decade.

Passionate about teaching, she played a key role in the establishment of the Judicial Education Institute of Trinidad and Tobago (JEITT) and the Caribbean Academy of Law and Court Administration (CALCA), the education arm of the CCJ. She has also over the years taught and trained judicial officers, administrators and attorneys at law in and from several areas of the world in the areas of caseflow management and court administration and has taught at the Commonwealth Judicial Education Institute and advised the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda on Rules of Court.