| Office2: | Chief Justice of Tonga |
| Term Start2: | 27 September 2010 |
| Term End2: | January 2015 |
| Predecessor2: | Tony Ford |
| Successor2: | Owen Paulsen |
Michael Dishington Scott was Chief Justice of Tonga.
Scott is a British national with a long career in the Pacific.[1] He has previously served as a judge in Kiribati and the Solomon Islands, and served for 14 years as a judge on the High Court of Fiji.[2] As a High Court judge in Fiji, in Yabaki v President of the Republic of the Fiji Islands, he ruled that the interim government established in the wake of the 2000 Fijian coup d'état was legal.[3] This ruling was later overturned on appeal.[4] From 2004 to 2007 he was a judge of the Fijian Court of Appeal.[2]
He was appointed Chief Justice of Tonga in August 2010, replacing Tony Ford.[2] He assumed the role on 27 September 2010.[1] He was replaced by Owen Paulsen in January 2015.[5] In June 2017 he was appointed to the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council of Tonga as a Law Lord.[6] [7]