Sir Geoffrey de Paiva Veale (12 January 1906 – 29 December 1971) was an English barrister and High Court judge, who sat in the Queen's Bench Division of the High Court from 1961 until his death in 1971.
[1] Outside of the law, Veale was chairman of the Ilkley Urban District Council in 1936.
[1] During the Second World War, Veale served for four years in the Middle East, and was mentioned in dispatches.
In 1944 he was promoted to the rank of Colonel and appointed Deputy Judge Advocate General to the British forces in the Middle East.
Veale was appointed a Justice of the High Court in 1961, received the customary knighthood, and was assigned to the Queen's Bench Division.