John Roch

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Lord Justice of Appeal
In office
1993–2000
Justice of the High Court
In office
1985–1993
Personal details
Born
John Ormond Roch

(1934-04-19)19 April 1934
Died1 December 2021(2021-12-01) (aged 87)
Children3
EducationWrekin College
Clare College, Cambridge

Sir John Ormond Roch,

Lord Justice of Appeal
from 1993 to 2000.

Early life

Roch was born in Cardiff to Frederick Ormond Roch and wife Vera Elizabeth Roch, née Chamberlain, Roch was educated at Wrekin College on a scholarship from Barclays Bank (for whom his father worked) and read law at Clare College, Cambridge (BA, LLB).[1] He studied comparative law in Paris for a year, then served as an officer in the Royal Welch Fusiliers, stationed in British Honduras, for his National Service.

Career

He was

took silk in 1976, and was elected a Bencher of Gray's Inn in 1985. He was a Recorder
from 1975 to 1985.

Roch was appointed a

Privy Council. He was one of the judges who quashed the convictions of the Bridgewater Four
in 1997. Roch retired in 2000.

Personal life

He married Anne Greaney in 1967 and they had three daughters; she died in 1994. Roch later married Susan Niccols. Roch died of heart failure in a flat in Broad Haven with his wife on 1 December 2021, at the age of 87.[2][3]

References

  1. Who's Who & Who Was Who. A & C Black. (Subscription or UK public library membership
    required.)
  2. ^ "Roch, Sir John Ormond". The Telegraph. 7 December 2021. Retrieved 7 December 2021.
  3. ISSN 0140-0460
    . Retrieved 26 January 2022.