David Latham

{{Short description|British judge}} {{Use dmy dates|date=February 2025}} {{Use British English|date=December 2015}} {{Infobox officeholder | honorific_prefix = The Right Honourable | name = Sir David Latham | honorific_suffix = | image = | image_size = | caption = | office = Lord Justice of Appeal | term_start = 2000 | term_end = 2009 | monarch = Queen Elizabeth II | predecessor = | successor = | office2 = Chairman of the Parole Board for England and Wales | term_start2 = 2009 | term_end2 = 2012 | birth_date = {{birth date and age|1942|9|18|df=y}} | birth_place = Blagdon, Somerset, England | death_date = | death_place = | resting_place = | birth_name = | spouse = | alma_mater = | occupation = Judge | profession = Barrister | signature = | website = | footnotes = }} '''Sir David Nicholas Ramsay Latham''', PC (born 18 September 1942) is a retired British judge who was Lord Justice of Appeal and Chairman of the Parole Board for England and Wales.<ref name="burke">{{cite book |title= Burke's Peerage, Baronetage & Knighthood|publisher=Burke's Peerage & Gentry |editor= Mosley, Charles |editor-link=Charles Mosley (genealogist) |edition=107 |year= 2003 |page= 2244 |ref=Burke |isbn=0-9711966-2-1}}</ref>

Latham is the son of Robert Latham (1912–1995), editor of the diary of Samuel Pepys, and his first wife, Eileen Ramsay (d. 1969). He was educated at Bryanston School and Queens' College, Cambridge.<ref name="burke"/>

Latham was vice-president of the Court of Appeal (Criminal Division) from 2006 until his retirement from the bench in February 2009. He was appointed a Lord Justice of Appeal in 2000, having been a High Court Judge since 1992. He was called to the Bar in 1964 and made a Bencher in 1989. He was appointed Queen's Counsel in 1985.<ref name=Source>{{Cite web |url=http://www.cjp.org.uk/news/archive/straw-appoints-sir-david-latham-as-chairman-of-the-parole-board-23-02-2009/ |title=Straw appoints Sir David Latham as Chairman of the Parole Board |publisher=Community Justice Portal |date=23 February 2009 }}{{Dead link|date=September 2025 |bot=InternetArchiveBot }}</ref>

He was Presiding Judge for the Midland and Oxford Circuit 1995–99, and a Member of the General Council of the Bar 1987–92. He was a Recorder 1983–92, and a member of the Judicial Studies Board 1988–91.<ref name=Source />

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