Sir John Brinsmead Latey, MBE, PC (7 March 1914 – 24 April 1999) was a British judge.
A divorce and family law specialist, Latey served for twenty-four years on the High Court bench, at a time of radical change within English divorce law.
[1] He was educated at Westminster School and Christ Church, Oxford, where he took a Third in Jurisprudence in 1935.
[1] Initially refused for wartime service due to poor eyesight, Latey was commissioned into the Royal Army Pay Corps in 1942, and subsequently transferred to the Judge Advocate's Department.
In 1965, on the recommendation of Lord Gardiner, Latey was appointed to the High Court and assigned to the Probate, Divorce and Admiralty Division, receiving the customary knighthood.