Sir John Ormond Roch, PC (19 April 1934 – 1 December 2021) was a British judge.
[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.
He was called to the Bar by Gray's Inn in 1961, and joined a chambers in Cardiff where he specialised in personal injury claims.
Assigned to the Queen's Bench Division, he was a Presiding Judge, Wales and Chester Circuit from 1986 to 1990.
Roch died of heart failure in a flat in Broad Haven with his wife on 1 December 2021, at the age of 87.