Chancery Division of the High Court
Chancery Division

Morton was admitted as judge to the Chancery Division of the High Court of Justice in 1938, receiving the customary knighthood.

In January 1897 Justice Chitty retired, and Byrne was selected to fill the vacancy as a judge of the Chancery Division of the High Court of Justice.

The position is now held by a judge of the Chancery Division of the High Court, who sits in the north-west, and no longer appointed to that position as legal officer of the Duchy.

Later that year he was appointed judge of the Landed Estates Court; he became a judge of the Chancery Division of the High Court of Justice in Ireland in 1875, retiring in 1885.