Geoffrey Veale

Sir Geoffrey de Paiva Veale (12 January 1906 – 29 December 1971) was an English barrister and

Queen's Bench Division of the High Court

Biography

Veale was the son of Dr Henry Veale, of Clifford House, Ilkley. He was educated at Rugby School and Oriel College, Oxford. He was called to the Bar by the Inner Temple in 1929, of which he became a Bencher in 1959. Veale joined the Northern Circuit and built a successful practice, most of which was circuit work, although he began to appear more frequently in London courts after he was appointed a King's Counsel in 1951. Outside of the law, Veale was chairman of the Ilkley Urban District Council in 1936.

During the

Judge Advocate General

to the British forces in the Middle East.

After the war, Veale held a succession of legal appointments. He was

Attorney-General of the County Palatine of Durham from 1957 to 1961. In 1966, Veale was made an honorary LLD by the University of Leeds

In 1957, Veale was one of the three members of the Bank Rate Tribunal, which was appointed to examine allegations that an increase in Official Bank Rate had been improperly discussed ahead of its public announcement by the Bank of England. The Tribunal unanimously found no basis for the allegations, although some were critical of the Tribunal's conclusions.

Veale was appointed a

Queen's Bench Division

. He sat on the High Court until his death in 1971, aged 65.

Veale married Elizabeth Patricia Barrow in 1937; they had one daughter.