David Bodey
Sir David Roderick Lessiter Bodey is a British judge who was a Justice of the High Court of England and Wales.Legal career
Bodey was called to the bar at Middle Temple, where he was a Harmsworth scholar, in 1970. He became legal assessor to the UK Central Council for Nursing, Midwifery and Health Visiting, was appointed to the Supreme Court Procedure Committee, and became secretary of the Family Law Bar Association. He was the Association's president in 1997. Bodey was appointed Director of Family Training for the Judicial Studies Board, and continues in that role for the Board's successor, the Judicial College.
On 12 January 1999, Bodey was appointed to the High Court, receiving the customary knighthood, and assigned to the Family Division. He served as Family Liaison Judge for London from 1999 to 2001, then for the North Eastern Circuit until 2007. He retired from the bench on 15 October 2017.
