| Honorific Prefix: | The Right Honourable Mr. Justice |
| Michael de la Bastide | |
| Office1: | Crown Counsel in the office of the Attorney-General of Trinidad and Tobago |
| Term Start1: | November 1961 |
| Term End1: | April 1963 |
| Office2: | Senator, Republican Parliament of Trinidad and Tobago |
| Term Start2: | 1976 |
| Term End2: | 1981 |
| Office3: | President of the Law Association of Trinidad and Tobago |
| Term Start3: | 1987 |
| Term End3: | 1990 |
| Office4: | Chief Justice of Trinidad and Tobago |
| Term Start4: | 31 May 1995 |
| Term End4: | 18 July 2002 |
| Term Start5: | 18 August 2004 |
| Term End5: | 18 August 2011 |
| Birth Date: | 18 July 1937 |
| Occupation: | Lawyer, Judge |
Michael de la Bastide, KC, PC (18 July 1937 – 30 March 2024) was a Trinidad and Tobago lawyer. He was the Chief Justice of Trinidad and Tobago from 1995 until 2002.[1] [2] [3] [4] [5] [6]
De la Bastide attended St. Mary’s College, Port of Spain, from 1945 to 1955. He moved on to read law at Christ Church, Oxford from 1956 to 1960. He received a Bachelor of Arts (Jurisprudence) in 1959 with First Class Honours and a Bachelor of Civil Law, also with First Class Honours in 1960. De la Bastide died on 30 March 2024, at the age of 86.[7]
De la Bastide was Crown Counsel in the office of the Attorney-General of Trinidad and Tobago from 1961 till 1963. In 1975, he became a Queen's Counsel at the age of 38. He went on to serve as an Independent Senator from 1976 to 1981 in the Senate of Trinidad and Tobago. He was president of the Law Association from 1987 until 1990 prior to his appointment as Chief Justice in 1995. In 2005, he was sworn in as president of the Caribbean Court of Justice until his retirement in 2011.[8] [9] [10] [11] [12] [13]