Jeremy McMullen

Jeremy McMullen (14 September 1948 - 10 February 2015) was a trade unionist and barrister who later went on to be a judge in the High Court of England and Wales. He was an expert on employment law and workers' rights but also acted for Conservative Party politician Dame Shirley Porter.
Early life
McMullen was born on 14 September 1948 in Blackpool, the elder of two children of John, a businessman, and Irene, a teacher. He was educated at William Hulme's Grammar School in Manchester, after which he took a degree in law at Brasenose College, Oxford, and then the London School of Economics.
Career
In 1971, he became a barrister of the Middle Temple, then worked in New York until 1973.
From 1985, he appeared in several high-profile cases, obtaining an acquittal for officers of Westminster City Council caught up in the Homes for Votes gerrymandering scandal. He represented Dame Shirley Porter and the miners' leader Arthur Scargill on several occasions.
McMullen became a QC in 1994, a circuit judge in 2001, joined the Employment Appeal Tribunal in 2002, and became a senior circuit judge in 2006, and a deputy high court judge in the Queen's Bench division in 2007.
The Guardian called him "the leading expert of his generation on employment law, which he elevated to a new status".
Publications
* Employment Tribunal Procedure: a user's guide to tribunals and appeals
* Rights at Work. Pluto Press, 1976.

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