Jeremy McMullen

Jeremy McMullen QC (14 September 1948 – 10 February 2015) was a trade unionist and barrister who went on to be a Circuit Judge. He was an expert on employment law and workers' rights who acted for clients as diverse as Conservative Party politician Dame Shirley Porter and the trade unionist Arthur Scargill.

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 an MSc in Industrial Relations at the London School of Economics.

Career In 1971, McMullen became a barrister of the Middle Temple, then worked in New York until 1973.

He fought for trade union recognition at the Chix bubble gum factory in Slough and during the Grunwick dispute.

McMullen became a QC in 1994, became 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.

His obituary in The Guardian called him "the leading expert of his generation on employment law, which he elevated to a new status".

Selected publications Employment Tribunal Procedure: a user's guide to tribunals and appeals Rights at Work. Pluto Press, 1976.